23 July 2016
Reading one of my favorite writers this morning, Linda Hogan. If only we all could listen in the miraculous way she does.
“When the body wishes to speak, she will”~Linda Hogan
Make art about what the body has to say.
7/19/2016
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.”~John Kennedy
Make art about revolution.
7/20/2016
When the world becomes too much, I make things, usually for other people. So this week I’m sewing old fashioned cloth dolls to send to the children’s unit at the Massey Cancer Center.
Make art about when the world becomes too much.
7/21/2016
In the way I was taught, there are four fundamental types of dreams: waking life dreams; visitation dreams; teaching dreams; and traveling dreams.
Make art about one of these types of dreams.
7/16/2016
“Late, I have come to a parched land/doubting my gift, if gift I have,/the inspiration of water”~Dannie Abse
Make art about the inspiration of water.
7/17/2016
“Poor dear son, though you were not my son, I felt to love you as a son, what short time I saw you sick & dying here—“~Walt Whitman (letter to Erastus Haskell’s parents)
Make art about how they are all our sons.
7/18/2016
“May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.”~Mother Teresa
Make art about the open heart.
15 July 2016
“Art is a wound turned into light.”~Georges Braque
Make art about the wound, about transforming pain into light.
29 June 2016
“It’s hard to wake up sometimes and look back at your life with clear eyes, isn’t it? All the Hello’s and Goodbye’s, and all the things said and left unsaid, whether they were timely, or easy, or uncomfortable or boltfree, or jarring, or just plain true, at least for you, in the moment of their saying.And once you’re awake you have to listen to the now, or ignore it and pretend that it’s just not there. Tricky stuff for the strongest of us, and hard travelin’ for the tender hearted. Like pilgrims on some dusty trail, the long line of true believers stretches into nothingness, and the shadows of the don’t fit in’s move along like so much smoke, pungent and ethereal, lingering toward home.”~John Little Bear Eaton
Make art about the don’t fit in’s.
John Little Bear Eaton
27 June 2016
This morning, keep thinking about, hearing, a line from a poem by my mentor and friend, the poet Liam Rector, from his poem “This Summer.”
“Our motto: Fight to live; prepare to go.”~Liam Rector
Make art about preparation, about being prepared. Or about fighting to live.
Still listenin, Big Dog. Still miss you.
You can read the full poem “This Summer” here.
26 June 2016
“I leave to you a curious loom,
That I have wrought my dreams upon;
I beg you lay your hand to it
and weave a pattern when I’m gone.”
~James Lovell
Make art about legacy.
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