Comments on: How to Be an Artist-Monk http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2009/06/24/how-to-be-an-artist-monk/ Transformative Living through Contemplative & Expressive Arts Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:17:40 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Sunrise Sister http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2009/06/24/how-to-be-an-artist-monk/comment-page-1/#comment-99236 Sunrise Sister Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:18:30 +0000 http://abbeyofthearts.com/?p=2781#comment-99236 A beautiful post - a challenge, a gauntlett thrown down for the artist to reach for - a gift. Thank you! A beautiful post – a challenge, a gauntlett thrown down for the artist to reach for – a gift. Thank you!

]]> By: lucy http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2009/06/24/how-to-be-an-artist-monk/comment-page-1/#comment-99235 lucy Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:57:39 +0000 http://abbeyofthearts.com/?p=2781#comment-99235 thank you, friend, for this beautiful piece of inspiration. it makes me wish to reach for the painters brush that i do not feel so competent with. perhaps i shall do as deb suggested and pay attention to cadence, color and the sounds that surround me. peace and blessings. xoxox thank you, friend, for this beautiful piece of inspiration. it makes me wish to reach for the painters brush that i do not feel so competent with. perhaps i shall do as deb suggested and pay attention to cadence, color and the sounds that surround me. peace and blessings. xoxox

]]> By: Jan Blencowe http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2009/06/24/how-to-be-an-artist-monk/comment-page-1/#comment-99234 Jan Blencowe Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:47:56 +0000 http://abbeyofthearts.com/?p=2781#comment-99234 Your gift for wordcraft has expresed everything I feel deep inside and express in my painitngs. Words often fsil me when I want to express these things so THANK YOU for finding the words for me. Your gift for wordcraft has expresed everything I feel deep inside and express in my painitngs. Words often fsil me when I want to express these things so THANK YOU for finding the words for me.

]]> By: Christine http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2009/06/24/how-to-be-an-artist-monk/comment-page-1/#comment-99233 Christine Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:14:35 +0000 http://abbeyofthearts.com/?p=2781#comment-99233 You're welcome Anna! Suz, I just wrote it yesterday while attending an expressive arts workshop. We were given SARK's "how to be an artist" and asked to write our own "how to be a ..." and this is what was inspired in me. :-) Sarah, thank you for this beautiful poetic response! I am humbled. Thanks Deb, that is exactly the response I hoped for. :-) You're welcome Anna!

Suz, I just wrote it yesterday while attending an expressive arts workshop. We were given SARK's "how to be an artist" and asked to write our own "how to be a …" and this is what was inspired in me. :-)

Sarah, thank you for this beautiful poetic response! I am humbled.

Thanks Deb, that is exactly the response I hoped for. :-)

]]> By: Deb http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2009/06/24/how-to-be-an-artist-monk/comment-page-1/#comment-99232 Deb Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:43:20 +0000 http://abbeyofthearts.com/?p=2781#comment-99232 Beautiful, thanks. In my work this week, I have been doing this. Paying attention to the cadence of words as I type. Savoring the colors as I edit photos. Now I will do it more consciously. Beautiful, thanks. In my work this week, I have been doing this. Paying attention to the cadence of words as I type. Savoring the colors as I edit photos. Now I will do it more consciously.

]]> By: Sarah http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2009/06/24/how-to-be-an-artist-monk/comment-page-1/#comment-99231 Sarah Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:29:37 +0000 http://abbeyofthearts.com/?p=2781#comment-99231 Christine! RABBONI by Sarah Whitworth (as the Magdalene) Here I be, dressed in viridian and ochre, Eyes of ebony and lips of cinnabar, Your faithful student, your ardent follower, Present and open as the sky is azure. Three prostrations, before my teacher — Crystal earrings jingle and jangle in the picture. Christine!

RABBONI
by Sarah Whitworth
(as the Magdalene)

Here I be, dressed in viridian and ochre,
Eyes of ebony and lips of cinnabar,
Your faithful student, your ardent follower,
Present and open as the sky is azure.
Three prostrations, before my teacher —
Crystal earrings jingle and jangle in the picture.

]]> By: Suz http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2009/06/24/how-to-be-an-artist-monk/comment-page-1/#comment-99230 Suz Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:58:20 +0000 http://abbeyofthearts.com/?p=2781#comment-99230 Christine, I love this. Do you read it at retreats? It is somehow deeply familiar. Love, Suz Christine,
I love this. Do you read it at retreats? It is somehow deeply familiar.
Love,
Suz

]]> By: Anna http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2009/06/24/how-to-be-an-artist-monk/comment-page-1/#comment-99229 Anna Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:50:17 +0000 http://abbeyofthearts.com/?p=2781#comment-99229 Perfect words. Thank you! Just what I needed to hear today. Perfect words. Thank you! Just what I needed to hear today.

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