River of Healing

Posted on January 26, 2012 by

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“Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they thought and every struggle they went through and everything they gave their lives to, and every song they created, and every poem that they laid down flows down to me – and if I take the time to ask, and if I take the time to see, and if I take the time to reach out, I can build that bridge between my world and theirs. I can reach down into that river and take out what I need to get through this world”
― Utah Phillips

The River of healing takes us on many journeys. Along the way our Dreaming shares a story.

You are healed. You are free. All is One.

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I have to tell you a big secret . . .I’m an Artist…

Posted on January 22, 2012 by

“Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.” — Henry Rollins

This is from a local newspaper article, November 9, 2005.

For those who prefer not to leave Bullitt County for a fine art show, multi-media artist Kim Upton will host a show of her creations at her [address omitted] home Friday night from 5 to 9 pm.

Upton, a 34-year-old painter, sculptor, photographer and woodworker user her art as a voice box for women and children and believes art can be therapeutic and hold value for the ages.

“Spiritually and culturally art has been used as a way for us to communicate throughout history, “Upton said.

Upton said she’d like to promote the arts and hopes to begin offering classes in Bullitt County next year.

I have sold close to 500 pieces of art since 1993.  After a chance experience on Ebay, I made 300 individually crafted sculpted pendants, so that is where the bulk of my sales have come from.  The others have been through personal connections, chance postings online, and through art collectors.

Yes, I am an artist.  One of “those people” who believe in Art and all it has to offer.  However, since about 2006, my “artist”-ness have been in the closet.

A few weeks ago my life as an Artist was outed, and it could no longer be hidden.  The truth must be know, and it is unfair to my loved ones to hide it any longer.

I do art.

Along with that, I *gasp* teach others to do art.  Mostly women and children, but lately some men have joined in, too.  We’ve been doing art in secret because of the scandalous looks and whispers…and because we felt that there wasn’t support for our artistic ways.

It is obvious that the silence needs to be broken, and that the Truth had to come out…

Hopefully you will understand.

*grin*

(For those of you who have known this “secret” for years, it will be great for you to know that I have a place that can reproduce some of my old pieces, and I hope to get them loaded up on Etsy or ESBQ soon.)

I love you!  Now…go ART! :)

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Love is kind

Posted on January 22, 2012 by

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We have to take the whole universe as the expression of the one Self. Then only our love flows to all beings and creatures in the world equally.
– Swami Ramdas

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Into the Greening goes Angels on soft feet

Posted on January 18, 2012 by

Yesterday was so intensely powerful that it is running through my veins like a vine wraps the trunk of a tree. Mister The Mister and I talked about it this morning, and he summed it up nicely with saying: “That was a large load of Wisdom you got there, wasn’t it?”

Sure was.

Today it is my goal to paint an image of The Green Man that is more green than can be fathomed by the mind itself. On top of that I will paint blues that conjure of oceans of immortality and rival that of Lady Peacock’s bright eyes.

After that, the sun will dry and dance with the laundry on the line.

*grin*

Along with those things, I will chop wood and carry water…washing my bowls after eating soup and bread.

It is nice growing up…very nice. ♥♥♥

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.” — Robert Frost quotes

“The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.” — James Allen

“Khidr literally means ‘The Green One’, representing freshness of spirit and eternal liveliness, green symbolizing the freshness of knowledge “drawn out of the living sources of life.” Whatever the source for this green may he, it has come to symbolize the benign presence of the divine wisdom as imparted by the Divine Himself to Khidr and to Prophet Muhammad.”

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You have a secret light inside you…turn it on!

Posted on January 17, 2012 by

“Oh telescope, keep an eye on my only hope,
Lest I blink and be swept off the narrow road.
Hercules, you’ve got nothing to say to me,
‘Cause you’re not the blinding light that I need.”

– Owl City, “Galaxies”

We each have a light within us.  No matter what we think, our heart light shines out into the world.

And for the light you shine, I’d like to say, “Thank You!”  Your light is AMAZING!

“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.” — Helen Keller

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Your rich heart

Posted on January 16, 2012 by

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God examines both rich and poor, not according to their lands and houses, but according to the riches of their hearts.

- Augustine of Hippo

What is the ingredient that brings richness to your heart?

Today I invite you to Dream about your heart’s richness and allow it to carry you forth into a new dimension of BE+ing.

And…know that you are loved, totally, for who and what you are.

<3 hugs <3

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Into the fours

Posted on January 15, 2012 by

“The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time.

The more we say thanks, the more we find to be thankful for.

And the more we find to be thankful for, the happier we become.

We don’t give thanks because we’re happy.

We are happy because we give thanks.”
― Douglas Wood, The Secret of Saying Thanks

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Thank you little one for your gifts.

Thank you for bringing your light into the world.

Thank you for the challenges and chaos that comes with being who you are.

Thank you.

For a few days I had not felt well. A dear friend was staying with us, and for some reason it came to me that I should take a pregnancy test. So I did. In the bathroom of CiCi’s Pizza.

From there so many things aligned, quickly and an understanding came to our family. Now we are 6-an official tribal clan.

During the pregnancy I Dreamed of Sacred Mothers, resplendent in their coats and jewels. An Angel stayed near, at all times, and helped me understand this little one inside me.

Her arrival was greeted with chants to the Tara, and the first thing noticed by Mister The Mister and myself were her ears. We jokingly called her half-elven…then later learned it was more true than we thought.

Thank you, little one. You are full of Grace. May the Lord always be with you…

<3

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