Pause & See

April snow...again

windowsills, fluorescent lights

where I find my spring

orah

little 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

~~~~~~~~~~~My Lively Life~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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"Be Joyful because it is humanly possible"~~~Wendell Berry

Pause & See

patient wait for spring

winter's persistence lingers

bending not breaking

orah

 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

~~~~~~~~~~~My Lively Life~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Fiber Art, Weaving, Hand Spun

http://www.etsy.com/shop/injoyemporium

Hand Made Eco and Upcycled Cutie Buntings, Clothes, & Toys

http://www.etsy.com/shop/InJoyEcoCutie

Vintage Collectibles, Buttons, Clothing & MORE! 

http://www.etsy.com/shop/injoytreasures

Sea Glass & Copper Wire Ornaments with things I have gathered

http://www.etsy.com/shop/InJoyGatherings

My Blog~~Makings, Musings, &  Lifestyle on the Land:  

http://injoyemporium.blogspot.com

www.facebook.com/injoyemporium

http://instagram.com/injoyemporium

http://www.pinterest.com/injoyemporium

"Be Joyful because it is humanly possible"~~~Wendell Berry

~~~Gratitude~~~

POETRY

Robert Lax ~ Abstract Minimalist Poet ~ 1915 - 2000 

April is National Poetry Month!  April 18th Poem in Your Pocket Day!

I love poetry.  It has saved me time and time again.  When I was a teen and my life was pretty rugged I turned to poetry for comfort.  My first favorite was Robert Frost, it was funny too because I grew up in the Pacific Northwest.  I had never been to New England or cared to go.  Even so there was something in his poetry that resonated with me.  Part of it was nature but there was something more...who knows it may have been a pointer that my adult life was to be here in Maine.  

My first poetry book I ever owned...co 1972

I love the economy of poetry.  So much is said with fewer words.  I love the imagery that poetry invokes in my mind.  But my favorite thing is the way poetry looks on the page.  It is the blank space that surrounds a poem that I ador.  The blankness is like a breath before the poem is read.  The spaciousness around lines opens my heart to the message of a poem.  The most open poems I have come across where created by Robert Lax.  My beloved, most admired, maybe an obsession, personal favorite poet is Lax right now.

(I should own stock in posted notes!)

I have read everything I can get my hands on about this wonderful human BEing. This was a person full of love and possibly enlightened.  A humble sort that didn't get published much.  I am so grateful I love poetry -> which lead me to Robert Lax! 

My latest additions to my Lax collection

A favorite poem....

problem
in
design

what if 
you like 
to draw
big flowers,

but what
if some 
sage has 
told you 
that 
there is
nothing 
more beautiful

nothing 
more
beautiful

than a
straight
line
?

what should
you draw:
big flowers?
straight lines?

i think
you should
draw

big
flow
ers

big
flow
ers

big
flow
ers

big
flow
ers

big
flow
ers

big
flow
ers

big
flow
ers

big
flow
ers

un
til

they
be
co
me

a
str
ai
gh
t
l
i
n
e

i draw 

straight 

lines, 

said 

the young 

man, 

and think 

they are 

perfectly 

beautiful; 

but what 

can I 

draw now? 

straight 

lines, 

i said 

straight 

lines, 

straight 

lines 

until 

they 

disappear 

A link to 3 videos by Susanne Wiegner with the voice & poetry of Robert Lax

http://movingpoems.com/poet/robert-lax/

It is my intention, each Sunday, to share something that fills me with Gratitude. 

I write ~~~Gratitude~~~ with the wavy lines to represent the gratitude ENERGY~~~~~! 

I hope you will join me and share your gratitude moments. 

~~~Amen, Blessed Be, Namaste'~~~

Rambles with Rumi

I started this blog....then I became super busy.  It didn't help that it was superb weather all week.  Things have settled a bit.  So thought I would get a post in on this rainy afternoon before Sandy hits and we possibly lose power.  One of the things that kept me away from the computer was a nice special order that is now on its way to a shop in San Diego!!!!

It was an order for 3 dozen of my Love Notes that I sell on Etsy.  Well it ended up being 5 dozen.  This is because I have 30 quotes to a page...the order needed 36...I could have printed another page...but started looking at Rumi quotes...so made another page of 30...so needed to weave 2 dozen more for my shop....one of the quotes is..."Let us Fall in love again and scatter gold dust all over the world" Rumi...so this quote inspired me to spin up some new yarn with gold lame' plied into it....my creative process is like a run on sentence at times.  If you want to see more of my quote obsession check out this link....Rumi for the are holidays coming soon!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/90449370/ornament-wedding-favor-love-note-little

But this is not enough of an excuse for neglecting this blog.  The weather was amazing this week.  It was that Indian Summer that makes you wish you hadn't put the hammock away for the winter.  The air had just a hint of chill and with a scent of spice.  I just had to take time to wander in the woods.  Here are some images from the week......                          

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do" Rumi

"What you seek is seeking you"  Rumi

"In your light I learn how to Love.  In your Beauty, how to make Poems"  Rumi