Visual Journey 55
Living Through Creative Process
Batik with after school students at The Orchard, Patten Maine.
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The Woven Word at the Library House, Presque Isle, Maine.
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French Link stitch. This is one of five books we have made together in Brewer, Maine. The last two weeks of this class will be devoted to exploring printmaking, batik and ink within the pages of their books. French link was a favorite!
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Watercolor people. Work ongoing…
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School Prayer
By Diane Ackerman
In the name of the daybreak
and the eyelids of morning
and the wayfaring moon
and the night when it departs,
I swear I will not dishonor
my soul with hatred,
but offer myself humbly
as a guardian of nature,
as a healer of misery,
as a messenger of wonder,
as an architect of peace.
In the name of the sun and its mirrors
and the day that embraces it
and the cloud veils drawn over it
and the uttermost night
and the male and the female
and the plants bursting with seed
and the crowning seasons
of the firefly and the apple,
I will honor all life
—wherever and in whatever form
it may dwell—on Earth my home,
and in the mansions of the stars.
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Grateful for you,
XXX Char
This is a lovely, peace-inducing touch to the end of a very busy week: the pleasing geometry of the French Link, the vibrant colors from Woven Word and Brewer, the lush green of spring behind the young artist so intent in his work that he doesn't seem to be aware that clouds of black flies must be mustering nearby ;-)
(I was gone for four days and nights in Florida; the complete explosion of the fields and trees, both in green and in buzzing black, in that short time is quite something)