Thanksgiving Week began with a sunrise this morning in Central California.
By early afternoon we were in southern California.
And I was amazed that the hydrangea were still blooming.
Sunday, November 22, 2015
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Week 13 Verse
And when I live in senses' heights,
There flames up deep within my soul
Out of the spirit's fiery worlds
The gods' own word of truth:
In spirit sources seek expectantly
To find your spirit kinship.
by Rudolf Steiner
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The idea for this artistic exercise came from 52 Weeks by Laura Summer.
Week 12 Verse
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The radiant beauty of the world
Compels my inmost soul to free
God-given powers of my nature
That they may soar into the cosmos,
To take wing from myself
And trustingly to seek myself
In cosmic light and cosmic warmth.
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written by Rudolf Steiner
The idea for the artistic exercise is from 52 Weeks by Laura Summer.
Sunday, June 14, 2015
Week 11 Verse
In this the sun's high hour it rests
With you to understand these words of wisdom:
Surrender to the beauty of the world,
Be stirred with new-enlivened feeling;
The human I can lose itself
And find itself within the cosmic I.
-Rudolf Steiner
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The idea for this artistic exercise is from 52 Weeks by Laura Summer.
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Week 10 Verse
To summer's radiant heights
The sun in shining majesty ascends;
It takes my human feeling
Into its own wide realms of space.
Within my inner being stirs
Presentiment which heralds dimly,
You shall in future know:
A godly being now has touched you.
-Rudolf Steiner
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The idea for this artistic exercise is from 52 Weeks by Laura Summer.
Monday, June 1, 2015
Week 9 Verse
When I forget the narrow will of self,
The cosmic warmth that heralds summer's glory
Fills all my soul and spirit;
To lose myself in light
Is the command of spirit vision
And intuition tells me strongly:
O lose yourself to find yourself.
-Rudolf Steiner
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The idea for this artistic exercise is from 52 Weeks by Laura Summer.
Sunday, May 24, 2015
Week 8 Verse
The senses' might grows strong
United with the gods' creative work;
It presses down my power of thinking
Into a dreamlike dullness.
When godly being
Desires union with my soul,
Must human thinking
In quiet dream-life rest content.
-Rudolf Steiner
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The idea for this artistic exercise is from 52 weeks by Laura Summer
Sunday, May 17, 2015
Week 7 Verse
My self is threatening to fly forth,
Lured strongly by the world's enticing light.
Come forth, prophetic feeling,
Take up with strength your rightful task:
Replace in me the power of thought
Which in the senses' glory
Would gladly lose itself.
-Rudolf Steiner
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The idea for this artistic exercise is from 52 Weeks by Laura Summer
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Sunday, May 10, 2015
Week 6-Verse
There has arisen from its narrow limits
My self and finds itself
As revelation of all worlds
Within the sway of time and space;
The world, as archetype divine,
Displays to me at every turn
The truth of my own likeness.
-Rudolf Steiner
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The idea for this artistic exercise is from 52 Weeks by Laura Summer
Sunday, May 3, 2015
Week 5 Verse
Within the light that out of spirit depths
Weaves germinating power into space
And manifests the gods' creative work:
Within its shine, the soul's true being
Is widened into worldwide life
And resurrected
From narrow selfhood's inner power.
-Rudolf Steiner
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The idea for this artistic exercise is from 52 Weeks by Laura Summer
Sunday, April 26, 2015
Week 4- Verse
Week 4
I sense a kindred nature to my own:
Thus speaks perceptive feeling
As in the sun-illuminated world
It merges with the floods of light;
To thinking's clarity
My feeling would give warmth
And firmly bind as one
The human being and the world.
-Rudolf Steiner
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The idea for this artistic exercise is from 52 Weeks by Laura Summer
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Week 3- Verse
Thus to the World-All speaks,
In self-forgetfulness
And mindful of its primal state,
The growing human I:
In you, if I can free myself
From fetters of my selfhood,
I fathom my essential being.
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-Rudolf Steiner
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The idea for this artistic exercise is from 52 Weeks by Laura Summer
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Week 2 Verse
Out in the sense-world's glory
The power of thought gives up
its separate being,
And spirit worlds discover
Again their human offspring,
Who germinates in them
But in itself must find
The fruit of soul.
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The idea for the artistic exercise is from 52 Weeks by Laura Summer
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Almost Done...Cow and Goat
I have had so much fun with these two art canvases The raw umber and burnt umber are colors I have fallen in love with. I still have words to put on the the goat picture but it's all coming along. Fun!
Monday, April 6, 2015
The Messy Lovable, Lovely Life
The Messy Lovable Lovely Life is just that! You take a look at the imperfection of what's in front of you. You love it, look at it, relish it or.... leave it if you have to pick up the kids or go put in another load of laundry. And then, at some point it looks like this: Red Alert!
Yikes! How did it get this way? ... One stop here, grab something there, pick up this, add a little of that ...and before you know it, too much is taken in while not taking other stuff out. And it all looks a little out of place.
What makes this messy life lovable and lovely is the Rule of Ten. In just 60 seconds 10 small things can be put back in order. A bit of trash here, the rubber band goes back over there, salt in the cupboard, scissors back in the drawer. If you're on the run, just do ten things and go. There is always a little time to order this and straighten that. It doesn't keep it all meticulously clean, but until life is less full of activities, events, kids, emails, school and work...it keeps the mess manageable and life lovable and lovely!
Sunday, April 5, 2015
Week 1 Verse -Happy Easter
When out of world-wide spaces
The sun speaks to the human mind,
And gladness from the depths of soul
Becomes, in seeing, one with light,
Then rising from the sheath of self,
Thoughts soar to distances of space
And dimly bind
The human being to the spirit's life.
by Rudolf Steiner
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The idea for the above artistic exercise is from 52 Weeks by Laura Summer
This cow was painted on a 10x10 wood board using acrylics. The butterfly has some acrylic ink and the flowers below are done with stamping and then adding acrylic paint to fill out the color. I really had so much fun working on wood!
This goat is similar...10X10 wood with acrylic paint, permanent markers, stamps and papers. These two wood pieces have a real outdoor feel to them. Perfect for yard art!
Friday, March 20, 2015
Etsy Shop Opening!
I listed 5 pieces.... here they are... you can choose an 8x10 print or a print with a matte ready to fit an 11x14 frame.
Title: Raw Goodness
Title: Soul Garden
Title: Allow the Mystery to Unfold
Title: Anchor Dreams in Strong Courage
Title: From Depths of Winter to Light of Spring
Title: Spring's Hummingbird
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
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