#iartdaily Challenge: Day 5 "In creating, time disappears into space as stars blanket my shoulders in embrace, and imbue every cell of my being with love." ~ LeAura Alderson, author, entrepreneur, iCreateDaily Today’s prompt brought to mind space and stardust, the beginning of time and the end of it, maybe through a Big Bang at …
Dark and light
Day 4 “When you face the fear it evaporates. Shadows cannot withstand the light.” ~ LeAura Alderson In this post I simply wish to honor a friend. #iartdaily
A Fish Out of Water
Day 3: What are you feeling? "A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling." ~ John F. Carlson, Swedish-born American Impressionist painter Prompt: If what you’re thinking and feeling right now was created as your art, …
Life is in the details
Day 2 “Art is born in attention. Its midwife is detail.” ~ Julia Cameron, American artist, author and teacher Prompt: What does attention reveal? So the iCreateDaily for Creators challenge for today was about paying attention and noticing. I started by taking a couple of photos of tissue paper balls (in shades of pink, for …
‘Add color to my sunset sky’
Day 1 Today I signed up for a 30-day art challenge through iCreateDaily for Creators (#iArtDaily). The last time I remember feeling creative -- like visual-artist creative -- was in childhood. Since it's a new year, which always holds the potential for new beginnings, I figured I'd give the challenge a try. Cross disciplinary creativity …
Dark Night of the Soul
And one night — if it was night at all — she dreamed she was back at the beginning, where it all started. She saw the threads leading to other choices that, in that the moment, hadn’t been apparent to her. In the dream she saw not only what else she might have done, she …
From Zeigler’s haiku
1. On a mid-August evening after sundown, the common weeds edging the yard become a haven for fairies. The darker the sky gets, the more the fairies flit in and out of tall milkweed, field bindweed, pig weed and scrub trees. The fairies dance among the stalks and leaves to the crickets’ song, alighting sometimes …
I’m Going to Start Living Like a Mystic
Jennifer Louden read this poem today in her Friday audio in the Writer's Oasis. It's glorious, and mesmerizing, and I share it here for all and to remember it myself. I'm Going to Start Living Like a Mystic By Edward Hirsch, 1950 Today I am pulling on a green wool sweater and walking across the …
I have writer’s block, and please don’t tell me I don’t.
This morning I awoke early, before dawn, and couldn't go back to sleep. I feel like I am going to explode ... and can't grasp relief. Relief comes from writing, and it's not there. I've read plenty lately that says writer's block is a myth. It's really laziness. Or lack of motivation. Or fear. An …
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Secluded
Silence is preferred but not necessary. Even in a crowd, wall-to-wall bodies roiling, Channeling Zen, mindful inner peace Lets one choose seclusion, solitude. Unless one in the swarm punctures the bubble of Stillness with an errant touch or word, shattering Intentions to be locked inside oneself, like a diving bell Open now to the chaos …
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