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Delshanay: The Breath of Life is Love

Space — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:49:34 +0000

Breath of Life is Love.

Full-Spectrum Experience:

Ordo Ab Chao.

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“Mom, pluhleeeeeeeez can we paint?!?!?” for the third time, this one laced with raw commitment and full-intent to play.

As I look around at the chaos of a half-cleaned, quarter packed Master Bathroom, and well — let’s just say the whole house looked this way — I am wondering when order will reign in my home again.

We are preparing to move and in the mid-stages of packing. We’ve still got a month or so to go, now choosing which items can nestle into their traveling stations and which will remain close at hand to enjoy the last remaining light of our current home.

Gabriel is long done with the excitement of packing. The cleaning even less. His heart is already out the door, no care or concept for what it takes to move states with ease and grace.

Hence, this invitation to play.

As we meet eye to eye, I am jolted out of logic and planning into NOW. I see the Light within inviting me to swim in the color of the moment and play with the perfection of connection and co-operative chaos.

I surrender. He ecstatically heads to the paint box — no need to linger further or mince words. We are painting - now.

Again, being half-packed I start to wonder where the blank canvas’ are? Somewhere in the chaos to be sure - either slumbering with dust bunnies or stacked in ‘The Hopefuls’ pack of projects that missed their projected start times.

Then …

My eye spies a canvas, one tucked in the corner of the closet. As I remember, it was the third one started in a single day, and suffered from the ‘creativity crash’ of being toooooo long at play. Its one redeeming value is we managed to paint every inch of it. No white space — just colored chaos.

This is our perfect canvas. We will resurrect what might have died a lonely death AND we have to look no farther. We have everything we need — a canvas, paint, passion, partnership and freedom.

Yes, freedom.

After watching the movie “My kid could paint that”, my mind was opened as I watched Marla Olmstead, child-prodigy and center of controversy, splotch, connect, pull and pool paint. She created with wild abandon and was clearly immersed in bliss. Her parents did not have little cups, ordered by color, and stressing out about a red-tipped brush being dipped into the green cup. (disclaimer: I have been that parent)

Rather, Marla Olmstead was given freedom to be her authentic self and, as a result, produces imaginatively engaging art that delivers order out of chaos.

We have adopted this art style, and what has emerged is an experience beyond words. I will attempt this anyways:

There is no wrong, only Rite. The Rites of Change, Ease, Freedom and Grace. We breathe in possibility and revel in Loves Fierce Light. We laugh and wonder what is next, what ‘that’ is and together remember what it feels like to bring Order out of Chaos.

Thank heavens.

So for now, even if my house exists in the void between these two spaces, my heart is grateful and at peace for having surrendered to the invitation to play.

I breathe freely and know Love. It has called me Home.

Thank you, Gabriel. Thank you, Marla. Thank you, Love.

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This is my second contribution to the Art Every Day Month challenge. You can jump on board or find out more about this heART-full event here:

Tubes of light, circles at night

Space — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:59:36 +0000

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Circles of light shine
stretched by long-count time, breathing
Beauty: Lifes Flow-er

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Day One of Art Every Day Month:

“Did you see the Moon tonight, from the bathroom window?” Ken asks.

“Ummm, specifically from the bathroom window? No.”

I thought it odd he was so excited about the view from the bathroom and so had to investigate. His smirk and ultra-mysterious gleem in his eye quickened my pace. He followed directly behind.

Walking in to the dark room, I flipped the light on. He flipped it off. Thus we stood, side by side, in front of an opaque window, oo-ing and awe-ing at the geometries created by the refracting Light of the November full moon.

Simple beauty. I love that Ken takes time to honor the sublime.

Quickly, I grabbed my camera, ready to record the beauty and wonder of it all. Then I realized I had to adjust my shutter speed to grab the low light. Radically adjust it. Down, down, down.

To give some perspective, 1/60 (that’s one sixtieth of a second) is the slowest speed one can go without creating blur — my meter was giving me a 20 second exposure. 20 seconds is a long time in Camera Land.

I thought, ‘Why not. Let’s give it a go and see what appears.’

The above is what came thru.

This shot will not win any awards, nor does it really POP!, grab the eye or reveal mysteries in the simplicity of its being. Or does it?

This image speaks to me in a subtle way. When one looks at the “blur”, it rolls in a circular pattern. See the top and bottom of the Light column? There.

A tube torus also appears out of the hazy chaos creating ‘Tubes of Light, circles at night’.

Funny - in my attempt to hold center, to practice stillness and peace of being, is revealed a circular flow, a subtle energy pattern. I am taking it as a sign that I am able to ‘roll’ with the moment and light-heartedly live in the flow zone.

So, there’s Day One … posted on Day Three.

… rolling with the moment.

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For more info on Art Every Day Month, and the hostess Leah Piken Kolidas, go here: http://creativeeveryday.com/art-every-day-month

Freedom Love

Space — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:15:40 +0000

“Gratitude lights the way to enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm clears the path to Love.
Love is the key to Freedom.”

~ Sandy Paris

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www.FreedomTribe.com

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As we’ve been preparing the Sustainable Futures/Go Gratitude green jobs program, I’ve had Freedom playing in the background. Feels like a good time to shine some Light on the rhythm and rhyme b’earthed by the Freedom Tribe.

In-Joy!