This past week I was feeling pretty overtired from teaching all the previous weekend while recovering from a bug. Finally by Friday I began to feel like myself again. So it was a gift to have already planned to spend the morning meeting one of my favorite artists. I first discovered Miska's work at the [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Invitation to Poetry: "Tell Us What You've Found"
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This is Poetry Party #11! I select an image and suggest a title and invite you to respond with your poems, words, reflections, quotes, song lyrics, etc. Leave them in the comments or email me and I’ll add them to the body of the post as they come in along with a link back to your [...]
Snowbow: Visual Meditation
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When we were in Whistler over Christmas we had the delight of seeing two different rainbows, which I realized were actually "snowbows." One of them looked like a traditional arc (top and bottom image), the other hung suspended in the air upside-down (middle image). -Christine Valters Paintner @ Abbey of the Arts **Come back Monday [...]
Sacred Artist Interview: Eileen Miller
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Eileen Miller is another wonderful artist I discovered through blogging. Her primary art medium is acrylic painting, and then pen and ink. She is a lover of art, appreciating all forms of styles and is influenced by Vincent van Gogh, Georgia O'Keeffe, Rodin, and Gustav Klimt. She roots herself in the Roman Catholic tradition, after what she describes [...]
leave everything you know behind
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No Abbey Bookshelf today, too much work these last few days to think about reading! So instead, here are some beautiful words from David Whyte: Tilokal Lake ("The Frozen Lake") In this high place it is as simple as this, leave everything you know behind. Step toward the cold surface, say the old prayer of [...]
Grief
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I want to reflect here on two deaths that happened at the beginning of the year–within four days of each other–of two people whom I have never met. One is the great Irish poet and contemporary mystical writer John O'Donohue who died peacefully in his sleep on January 3, 2008. He was only 53 years old [...]
Sacred Arts Ring
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I am pretty exhausted from a weekend full of teaching a wonderful group of students, so I share here a small selection of offerings from the Sacred Arts Ring: Gifts of poetry at Snow on Roses and Pilgrim Path. Lisa shares some of her inspiring SoulCollage cards here. I love this piece from Kate. Melissa always [...]
What is Art?
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I leave you this weekend with a link to an adorable and funny video answering the question of "what is art." It's from Creature Comforts who interviewed regular people about a variety of subjects and then synced their answers to claymation animals. I am off to teach all weekend and looking forward to meeting my new students! [...]
Winter Evening Pilgrimage: Visual Meditation
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-Christine Valters Paintner @ Abbey of the Arts (photos taken along the shore of the Hood Canal) The winner of this week's Poetry Party drawing will be announced later today! There's still time to add your poem — currently up to 23 participants which is a wonderful outpouring of creative energy.
Sacred Artist Interview: Bette Norcross Wappner
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I am really excited about this new weekly feature on my blog for 2008 — I will be interviewing artists who keep an awareness of the sacred at the heart of their creative work. I want to explore how others merge their art and spirituality and give you, my dear readers, some more insights into this connection. I [...]
