ArtfulFairyTales...Musings...Poetic Artistry: this i know...

....Musings and Poetic Artistry gathered in a fragrant stream...i am spiritual artist, mommie, teacher, writer and interior designer composing an "ArtfulFairyTale"...and if i had to do it all again..i would do so... afloat a leafy sea dragon...and having a conversation with a whale i would most definitely wear my wedding dress with a strand of for-get-me-nots attached...EdenClare

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Thursday, December 20, 2012

this i know...

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"After years of being lost, I am working hard to be the fullest expression of me with friends and strangers, in my journal or in the grocery store: fleshy, messy, human me. There is room for all of us out there; we do not have to make ourselves small to fit into this world. We are together for such a short time, this body and I — when I remember this I let out a breath and sink into accepting that this is all there is. A body, a breath, a hunger for food, for love, for communion with others. This body is not all of me, but it reflects me so well. I let the world see my confidence when I straighten my back and walk tall…My body is a map of my life, guidebook to my desires, and every day I add to the story."

Susannah Conway,
This I Know:
Notes on Unraveling the Heart

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Castles Crowns and CottagesDecember 21, 2012 at 8:24 AM
Good morning sweet girl.....

I saw this lovely quote on your FB page and commented, but I come here today to your lovely blog that I have just enjoyed so much this past year. I look forward to more magic by the wave of your hand, your lead, as you invite us artists and wannabes to participate in the joy of sharing art.

Love to you, Anita
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Caterina GiglioDecember 21, 2012 at 1:07 PM
wonderful words and image... have a lovely holiday filled with magic and blessings! xo
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Maybe loving books is not so simple. Just like a healthy relationship needs work and changes with time, so too does our relationship with the things we own as we try to define ourselves and not be defined by stuff. Simply owning books didn’t make me a reader. What did make me a reader was an insatiable appetite for new stories and the things they have taught me. I would not be a better person for owning a library; I become a better person because I chose to read. — New Home, Empty Shelves (via booklover)

The thing you need to know, child, is that trees do speak, they do tell tales, they sing when they’ve a mind to, they are gigglers, gossips, grumblers cataloging every ache and pain, and yet they hold no grudges, claim no debts, speak ill of no creature. They have their tempers, yes, tantrums of branches lashed in gusts and gales, but then they come to rest in stillness, spent, humming contentedly. You’ve heard them child, just yesterday. You though it was only the wind. The thing you need to know is that by dawn-light every tree stands tall and chants its name, its history, its kinship web and lineage. You’ve heard them child. You thought it was the dawn chorus of birds. The thing you need to know is that the trees tell stories older than the oldest tales of humankind: by dusk, by night, by starlight, you have heard their midnight murmuring. You told me so. You thought it was just water running in the stream. The thing you need to know, child, is that trees do speak in their own language. They mutter with the rustle of old brown leaves, they sigh with the snow drifting at their feet, they utter exquisite arboreal poems as each new tender unfurls, they laugh in shivers of green and gold tickled by a passing breeze. The thing you need to know, child, is that the trees do speak, in the tree language. And yes, you will understand their speech one day, root child, sweet sapling.

Thursday, December 20, 2012

this i know...

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