"Music arouses the sluggish soul to watchfulness. It has power to soften even hard hearts, and by rendering hearts moist it ushers in the Holy Spirit. Through the power of hearing, God opens to human beings all the glorious sounds of the hidden mysteries and of the choirs of angels by whom God is praised [...]
Posts in the Art and Spirituality category
Invitations and Transformations
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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 [...]
The Fountain
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The Fountain Don't say, don't say there is no water to solace the dryness at our hearts. I have seen the fountain springing out of the rock wall and you drinking there. And I too before your eyes found footholds and climbed to drink the cool water. The woman of that place, shading her eyes, [...]
Sacred Stories Across Generations
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"a shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse, and from his roots a bud shall blossom." -Isaiah 11:1 (from the second Sunday of Advent) Yesterday I gathered together all of the images I had found of my aunt and uncle (my mother's siblings) as children and worked on creating something for each of them as [...]
Learning to Fly
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Tim You’ve only just arrived Now you’ve begun to go My God, how much I love you How my whole body aches with The glory that is you. Constantly changing, sometimes slowly, Sometimes in one heartbeat Or the blink of an eye. Becoming, always becoming, your self. Already my hands [...]
Courage Unparalleled
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Consent There was the minute no one speaks of, when she could still refuse. A breath unbreathed, Spirit, suspended, waiting. She did not cry,"I cannot, I am not worthy," nor, "I have not the strength." She did not submit with gritted teeth, raging,coerced. Bravest of all humans, consent illumined her. The room filled with its [...]
Pilgrimage Staff
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One day while walking along the shores of the Hood Canal near my hermitage I found a great big wooden stick. It was sturdy and the right height so I brought it back to sit with it for a while and ask how it wanted me to embellish it. Often when I lead art programs [...]
kindness of strangers, embracing the unexpected
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I was driving down to the Priory yesterday morning for my Advent Oblate retreat when about 20 miles down I-5 my car started vibrating and I saw smoke pluming from the rear. I was able to get off to the side of the road and slowly drove off the next exit. I thought there was something [...]
Self-Portrait
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The photo in the piece of art above was taken of me at age nineteen, during my junior year in college. I had a boyfriend at the time who was into photography, especially black and white, and I still have several of the photos he took of me. I think I find them striking because at [...]
More Carving
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Today has been an especially busy day with doing my elf work this morning and attending a workshop all day. So I admit that I did not get to any new art today and probably won't. But the three prints above are from two rubber stamp carvings I did a couple of days [...]
