Pause & See

spring fertility

giving egg gifts to raven

wait...see what might hatch

orah

***UPDATE***

Last Weeks Tree!

 I try to see something new each day. The art of seeing is essential to any creative work in my humble opinion.  My favorites are the ones that stop me in my tracks!  Like so many folks I have a very busy mind that I struggle to quiet.  By creating this practice it has given me many opportunities to pause and be with a new wonder.  I love to wonder about wonders.  These little seeings can be just the jolt my creative process needs to get out of a rut.  But mostly, they provide a pause which is that moment of peace I need to heal from a frustration. These seeings are grounding for me and bring me to the present.  I will admit to laughing out loud with joy over some of my discoveries, they are a moments of childlike wonder!  

"When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky"     ~~~Buddha

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April IS National Poetry Month!

Yeah Poetry!  I love Poetry and my InJoyEmporium Shop is full of poetry expressions!

I am BUSY!  The SPRING energy has finally hit me!  So zoom ~ zoom!  Feels GREAT!

Yesterday I finally listed this piece of FiberArt   https://www.etsy.com/listing/184748093/natural-white-mix-media-meditation?ref=shop_home_active_1

Robert Lax is one of my favorite poets!

This is a mix media piece honoring part of one his poems. It is made as a kinetic mobile with 6 small panels. The panels are connected with swivels so they turn freely between the text side and the mirror side. The panels text is letterpressed onto cotton with a vintage mirror tile contained by wool batting & sparkly tolle. There are quartz chips, moonstones, & Austrian Crystals to add more shine!

A wonderful meditation on the beauty of life!

[life]
is
no
hol
y

be
cause
it
is

beau
ti
ful

it
is
beau
ti
ful

be
cause
it
is 

hol
y

Robert 
Lax 

 

Robert Lax (1915-2000), was a little known American abstract minimalist poet and spiritual hermit. Lax may be best know for his friendship with the Trappist Monk, Thomas Merton. Though, I wish he could be known more for his own works. Lax wrote many poems but was not well published in the US. I love his writings and hope to bring more of his wonderful poems to light through my art work.