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Photo-Heart Connection: February – Finding My Wings

Quote of the day: “Run my dear, From anything That may not strengthen Your precious budding wings.” ― Hafiz February was a month of endings and beginnings. I ended my two and a half month walk-about in Hawaii mid-month, and returned home to Minneapolis. And during my walk-about in Hawaii I found my “precious budding wings.” It’s pure grace when you don’t even know you’re searching for something and then you find it. I went on walk-about to experience what it was like to leave my ordinary life and step into something new and unknown. I wanted time to feel the Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Working Skillfully With Anxiety

Quote of the day: “Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms.” ― Paulo Coelho, Manuscrito encontrado em Accra Back home from my winter walk-about in Hawaii, I slipped easily into my old routines and thought patterns, even the ones that I’ve worked hard to change. While I was in Hawaii, I became aware of how anxious and fearful I am about little things. Returning home to my well-known routines and life, I momentarily Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Even the Graffiti is About Love in Hawaii

Quote of the day: “Art is an evolutionary act. The shape of art and its role in society is constantly changing. At no point is art static. There are no rules.” ― Raymond Salvatore Harmon, BOMB: A Manifesto of Art Terrorism On one of the last days I spent in Hawaii this winter, a friend and I went exploring in an area that was once a fancy resort area, but now many of the buildings are vacant and graffiti is the only art in view. As we wandered through the deserted buildings, there was a full wall of graffiti and none of it Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Tripping Over Joy

Quote of the day:  A beautiful poem by Hafiz: Tripping Over Joy What is the difference Between your experience of Existence And that of a saint? The saint knows That the spiritual path Is a sublime chess game with God And that the Beloved Has just made such a Fantastic Move That the saint is now continually Tripping over Joy And bursting out in Laughter And saying “I Surrender!” Whereas, my dear, I am afraid you still think You have a thousand serious moves.

By Marilyn, ago

On Showing Up and Doing the Work

Quote of the day: “The advice I like to give to young artists, or really anybody, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, Read more…

By Marilyn, ago