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Ink on coffee stained paper. Part of my big ol' drawing installation that will be part of my "Where the Good Thoughts Grow," exhibition at www.perihelionarts.com/
Because right now, if ever, we could all use a blessing or good. This is my blessing to family, friends and complete strangers who need one. Maybe you could pass one on, too. Have a beautiful day!
excuse the glare - the whole page is covered in glitter glue so it's ridiculously shiny... I really like these pages, even though they don't look so cool in the photos... they took hours to colour!
"Humata, Hukhta, Huvarshta, which mean: Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds"
-Ahura Mazda, Spenta Mainyu
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Another silly, but hopefully happy feeling shot. Have a great Tuesday. Happy First Day of Spring to those of you in the Northern Hemisphere!
18" x 24" mixed media on wood
Using Flickr as my makeshift preview page so I'm loading images like crazy. Hopefully you can keep up.
It took forever to rip tiny pieces of paper and then glue them down, but I'm pretty happy with the end result
I thought it would be a good idea to do a page of bad thoughts next to the good thoughts. The bad thoughts are scattered and messy, the good thoughts neat and orderly. Unfinished but it is getting there.
My dear friend, Joel...
We had the very good fortune to have met you and Madeline just two and a half months ago.
We were honored to be included in your annual Seder dinner. Spending that holiday with you and so many others who loved you was an immense pleasure.
While we haven't been friends for a long time, I've considered you and Madeline very dear friends. And I've felt blessed to have known you.
You will be in my good thoughts and prayers, as will your long-time love, Madeline, along with your wonderfully large circle of friends who also loved you dearly.
You will be greatly missed, my friend.
xo
"I Never Told You & I Never Will," all put together. 13" x 18" mixed media on wood.
"Where The Good Thoughts Grow" @http://www.perihelionarts.com/
(From the book:"Springs of Chinese Wisdom".)
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On Christmas morning, my aunt told me about my grandma Mae growing up desperately poor in South Carolina in the 20's. Every year at Christmas time, a train would roll through their town and drop bags of supplies for the families who were struggling to make ends meet. The bags had pencils for school, paper, and sometimes, oranges and other citrus fruit. This was long before you could walk into a Whole Foods and buy summer fruit in the middle of winter. They hardly ate any fruits and vegetables in the winter, unless they preserved them by canning or pickling. So having an orange at Christmas time was a real treat. Especially because it wasn't guaranteed that the train or the fruit would come every year.
Getting that orange came to symbolize prosperity. Eating an orange in the middle of winter meant you were doing good. So my aunt carries on the tradition by putting an orange in her family's stockings for Christmas. An orange in your stocking to remind you that you're doing good. You're here at the end of another precious year on earth. This wonderful place we all share together.
So, maybe after that, what I'm about to say is going to sound odd. For some reason, it all fit together in my mind. So indulge me for a minute.
I like the story of the orange because it reminds me that life is precious and unpredictable. That is what makes it exciting. We don't always know what will happen, but we appreciate the good little things that do happen from day to day. The future is out there and we don't know what it is yet. Life will take us far and wide and we'll enjoy the beautiful moments because we know they are gifts. They are oranges in our stockings.
The last few days of work have been extraordinarily strange. The next few could be even more strange. Or they could be quiet and uneventful. It's reminded me that sometimes we have to prepare for the worst, hope for the best, and adapt to the rest. That's not the way it will always be, though. Just for now.
Here's an orange for all of us.
Top picture is a bird on a branch :)
Small sticker to the left is a scripture from Proverbs: "A friend loveth at all times."
The three guys are from The Hangover, which never fails to crack me up lol
Bird on cat's head lol look how pissed that cat is! LOL
Abbey Road by the Beatles :)
To Write Love On Her Arms is an organization that helps people with depression, addiction, and self-harm <3
California sticker because I really want to go there!!!
Chocolate in the corner :)
You Are Beautiful sticker from an organization that sends you free YAB stickers :D
Cadbury from a wrapper that was part of a birthday gift :)
The green, pink, and flowered tissue paper backgrounds are from birthday gifts, and the hot pink is from a bag that a gift was in; the pink and purple ribbon edges were on my birthday cake :)
"Music That Made Us" is just a cool phrase to me, there's been TONS of music that's made me who I am today <3