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A painting is never finished — it simply stops in interesting places.
– Paul Gardner
Today, we bid goodbye to the work begun at Imbolc, 2009, working our way through The Artist’s Way. I leave you with some final thoughts.
First, as we have admitted by now that we are recovering artists, we are urged to make a [...]
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The Shortest Day
by Susan Cooper (author of The Dark is Rising)
And so the Shortest Day came and the year died
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away.
They lighted candles in the winter trees;
They hung their homes with evergreen;
They burned beseeching fires all night long
To keep the year [...]
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To Autumn
by William Blake
O Autumn, Laden with fruit, and stain’d
With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit
Beneath my shady roof; there thou may’st rest,
And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe,
And all the daughters of the year shall dance!
Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers.
The narrow bud opens her beauties [...]
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Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe — the open sesame to every soul.
– Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I want to take this moment to give thanks to each and every one [...]
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The Ten of Cups…Know that the seeking and yearning will avail you not, unless you know the Mystery: for if that which you seek, you find not within yourself, you will never find it without. — from the Charge of the Goddess, traditional by Doreen Valiente
Bliss! Only a month after its last appearance, this week [...]
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Sometimes you’ve got to let everything go – purge yourself. Whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.– Tina Turner
As we finish up Chapter Seven, we are on an archaeological dig, discovering long-buried parts of ourselves we may have [...]
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The Great Leap of Faith © Jane EvershedThe fates lead him who will; him who won’t, they drag.–Seneca
First, my deepest thanks to all who have posted, emailed and called with your condolences. I can’t begin to tell you how much your support and love have meant to me. I am truly a blessed woman.
There [...]
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Weaver, weaver weave his thread,Whole and strong into your web.Healer, healer, heal his pain,In love may he return again…
May he find the hidden way,Beyond the gates of night and day,To that sweet land where apples grow,And endless healing waters flow.– lyrics by Starhawk
Frank CookEthnobotanist, Shaman, Teacher, Healer, Wild Green ManBeloved Son of GaiaSleep in the [...]
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Atlanta, 3/31/94 ©John RottetThe Days Betweenby Robert Hunter, Jerry Garcia
There were daysAnd there were daysAnd there were days between.Summer flies and August diesAnd the world grows dark and mean.Comes the shimmer of the moonOn black infested trees,The singing man is at his songThe holy on their knees.The reckless are out wrecking,The timid plead their pleas.No [...]
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And that’s the way it is.
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