Paper,color and texture
Grids
Nets
And patterns
Opacity
Luminosity
And beauty
Needle, thread
Glue
And lots of love
Combine them
With enthusiasm
A radiant smile
encouraging words
And music, divine
Put them in a place
Surrounded by art
Masterfully made
Beautifully hung
Add eager participants
Creative souls
Eager to try
Mix and stir
And what you will have
Is a Washi* collage workshop
With Lorraine Prichard
March 25th, 2018
*Washi is Japanese handmade paper
There are times in our lives
That the intensity of our emotions
Overwhelms us
We feel deeply
We yearn passionately
We hurt intensely
We miss others badly
These powerful emotions
Sometimes bring us to our knees
We want to get out of the whirlwind
But we can’t
We feel the same feeling over and over
And it hurts
And at the same time
These are times that we feel most alive
The waves created by our emotions
Keep crashing against the cliff of our spirit
But in the end
Our spirit makes it through
It survives another storm
And arrives at a place of calm
March 23rd, 2018
Painful experiences lead to beautiful insight
A painful birth to a most beautiful child
In our world pain and beauty are intertwined
Beauty can be painful
Can wrench the heart
Beauty can cause us pain and trauma
Beauty and pain are intertwined
March 11th, 2018
There is a thought that keeps going round and round
In my head
I feel like I’m caught in a whirlwind
It’s a battle of sorts
That I have with myself
I try to make sense of things
But don’t manage
Is it a matter of letting go?
Or is it something to hold on to?
Am I being fair to others and myself?
What do I need to be doing different?
I’ve been over all these thoughts in my head
And I don’t find any answers
Some issues are simpler than others
And this one is most circuitous
March 15th, 2018
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