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K's Sun-filled September afternoon shower /Sept. 2013

The light on your face warms my heart.

~ Anoushka Matus

Using what's on hand to create / August 2013

"Eventually I discovered for myself the utterly simple prescription for creativity; be intensely yourself.

Don’t try to be outstanding; don’t try to be a success; don’t try to do pictures for others to look at -- just please yourself."

In progress, velveteen jacket with collar and 3/4 sleeves (Simplicity 1943), lined with an old silk shirt (cut off collar and extra length; left the handy buttoned pocket) / May 2013

"... In the mean time, may you all continue to be creative with your thoughts if not with your hands."

~ Brandon Mably

Easter Poetry Brunch / March 2013

... and so I wish for you that you would open your heart and let [this gift] flow through you, that everyone whom you ... meet on this day will be blessed by you; just by your eyes, by your smile, by your touch -- just by your presence. Let the gratefulness overflow into blessing all around you, and then it will really be a good day.

~ C's Reading paraphrased from Benedictine Monk David Steindl-Rast

I started peeling clementines into stars and letting them dry; each forms its own shape and keeps its bright orange color

"Expertise is the enemy of imagination."

~ writer Aleksander Heman

Rilke asked "Am I a falcon or a storm or a great song?" / Inkodyed fabric using found natural objects with embroidery / HSF Art Show, Sept. 2012

How do I know what I think until I see what I say?

~ E.M. Forster

Outdoor studio / August 2012

"Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating."

~ John Cleese

Inkodye fabric with embroidered elements / August 2012

"What kind of broth is this?" she asked. "Life," the old woman said. "Boil your first kiss until it is violet like a sky. After it cools, stir it until it turns yellow like the wings of a butterfly. Then laugh into the potion to make more good than bad. That is the broth of life."

~ #120 from The Persistence of Yellow by Monique Duval

A day by the sea seeking another shape... / Wildwood, NJ / July 2012

“You create yourself in ever-changing shapes
that rise from the stuff of our days —
unsung, unmourned, undescribed
like a forest we never knew.

You are the deep innerness of all things,
the last word that can never be spoken.
To each of us you reveal yourself differently:
to the ship as coastline, to the shore as ship.” 

~ an excerpt (II, 22) from Rilke's Book of Hours

Setting sun over the Jersey landscape / June 2011

"To err is to wander, and wandering is the way we discover the world; and, lost in thought, it is also the way we discover ourselves. Being right might be gratifying, but in the end it is static, a mere statement. Being wrong is hard and humbling, and sometimes even dangerous, but in the end it is a journey, and a story."

"Of all the things we are wrong about, this idea of error might well top the list. It is our meta-mistake: we are wrong about what it means to be wrong. Far from being a sign of intellectual inferiority, the capacity to err is crucial to human cognition. Far from being a moral flaw, it is inextricable from some of our most humane and honorable qualities: empathy, optimism, imagination, conviction, and courage. And far from being a mark of indifference or intolerance, wrongness is a vital part of how we learn and change. Thanks to error, we can revise our understanding of ourselves and amend our ideas about the world."

~ from Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Shulz