today let us be bodacious enough ...

“We need the courage to create ourselves daily, to be bodacious enough to create ourselves daily — as Christians, as Jews, as Muslims, as thinking, caring, laughing, loving human beings. I think that the courage to confront evil and turn it by dint of will into something applicable to the development of our evolution, individually and collectively, is exciting, honorable.”   Maya Angelou

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May this tree remind us to be and be better . . .

When Great Trees Fall

'tree of life' installed at the Common Street Spiritual Center

When great trees fall,
rocks on distant hills shudder,
lions hunker down
in tall grasses,
and even elephants
lumber after safety.

When great trees fall
in forests,
small things recoil into silence,
their senses
eroded beyond fear.

When great souls die,
the air around us becomes
light, rare, sterile.
We breathe, briefly.
Our eyes, briefly,
see with
a hurtful clarity.
Our memory, suddenly sharpened,
examines,
gnaws on kind words
unsaid,
promised walks
never taken.

Great souls die and
our reality, bound to
them, takes leave of us.
Our souls,
dependent upon their
nurture,
now shrink, wizened.
Our minds, formed
and informed by their
radiance,
fall away.
We are not so much maddened
as reduced to the unutterable ignorance
of dark, cold
caves.

And when great souls die,
after a period peace blooms,
slowly and always
irregularly. Spaces fill
with a kind of
soothing electric vibration.
Our senses, restored, never
to be the same, whisper to us.
They existed. They existed.
We can be. Be and be
better. For they existed.”


― Maya Angelou

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Today, and everyday, let us embrace LOVE!!!! in honor of the wonderful MLK!!!

“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. 

Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. 

Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.” 

 Martin Luther King, Jr. 

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today, may we have faith is the process . . . .

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

We are quite naturally impatient in everything

to reach the end without delay.

We should like to skip the intermediate stages.

We are impatient of being on the way to something

unknown, something new.

And yet it is the law of all progress

that it is made by passing through

some stages of instability—

and that it may take a very long time.

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

a perfect quote for me, 

as I am determined to finish

this mural, ASAP ~ 

a tree of life for the 

Common Street Spiritual Center, Natick.

I am so loving painting/creating this tree 

but it needs to be done!!!

and my process for these paintings

 is thoroughly organic, intuitive, 

so it is very hard to finish . . .

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Today we can do anything!!!!

'yearning . . . ' #fromthelandofdragons

 When the sun is shining 

I can do anything; 

no mountain is too high, 

no trouble too difficult to overcome.

Wilma Rudolph

how it looked when i left my studio last night . . . 

this is a perfect quote for me, today, as the sun is FINALLY shining here!!! 

it has been on quite the sabbatical!!!!

AND 

I am on a mission to finish my mural for the Common Street Community Church ASAP!!!

 not that it is a 'trouble', just taking a LOT longer than either I or the client expected

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