#809 + THE LONGEST DAY / SUMMER SOLSTICE + “Until the story of the hunt is told by the LION > the tale of the hunt will always glorify the HUNTER.” African Proverb

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reflection:lookingforwardtoSEEbackwardstellingthetruthofLIGHT the longest day of sunlight

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“Until the story of the hunt

is told by the LION,

the tale of the hunt will always

glorify the HUNTER.”

African Proverb

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“Until the story of the hunt

is told by the LIONESS,

the tale of the hunt will always

glorify the HUNTER.”

African Proverb  – adapted by CLJ on 21 June 2018

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“Until the story of the hunt

is told by the LION CUBS,

the tale of the hunt will always

glorify the HUNTER.”

African Proverb – adapted by CLJ on 21June 2018

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listen, listen, listen to the story told by the children

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IPROMISETOTELL                                                                                Catherine L. Johnson  2015

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 HERHYMNS: BE BRAVE                                                                       Catherine L. Johnson   2013

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“ONE HUNDRED LULLABIES FOR SYRIAN REFUGEES”

5 December 2015  

Collaboration and accompanied by Lars-Erik Larson / composer + percussionist

Please click on link to read the lullaby:

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2016/01/04/the-writings-herhymns-be-brave-lullaby-i-thou-poem-a-lullaby-for-a-lover-catherine-l-johnson-interdisciplinary-artist-humanly-possible-the-empathy-exhibition-instinct-art/

 

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The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – Letter from a Birmingham City Jail. 1963.

Yours for the cause of Peace and Brotherhood, Martin Luther King, Jr.

https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html

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Is that a quote in relation to the ongoing emotional carnage sponsored by your husband??

DT’s “Stepford Wife/ Stockholm Syndrome reality show” CHOSE to wear THIS jacket 

http://screenprism.com/insights/article/what-does-it-mean-to-call-a-woman-a-stepford-wife

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2018/06/21/writing-on-melania-trumps-jacket-causes-controversy-before-border-visit/?utm_term=.fbb1f048e7a9

 

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/21/622410485/whats-up-with-melania-trump-s-i-really-don-t-care-do-u-jacket

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Today, First lady Melania Trump wore a jacket with the words

“I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?”

on the back on Thursday as she boarded a plane on her way to visit immigrant children being held at the border. She arrived at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland wearing the green, hooded $39 jacket from Zara. She removed it before she arrived in McAllen, Texas, to tour a detention center. 

As my dear eloquent, articulate and step UP Canadian friend Janet and I have texted each other – as a LOOPED refrain – for the last few weeks in response to DT + his White House’s actions:

“THERE ARE NO WORDS” or “CANNOT FIND THE WORDS”

Truly, THERE ARE NO WORDS. 

 

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#808 + OPEN #1/ #2/ #3 /#4 /#5 /#6 /#7 /#8 2018 CATHERINE L. JOHNSON + VIOLET LIGHT SUBMARINES + “THIS IS LOVE: TO FLY TO A SECRET SKY…” RUMI + THAT & THIS ANTHONY COX

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I was a submarine.

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2018/05/27/806-i-breathe-submarine-internal-violet-that-this/

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“This is love:

to fly toward a secret sky,

to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.

First to let go of life.

Finally,

to take a step without feet.”

– Rumi

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IMPROVISATIONS

OPEN

#1/ #2/ #3 /#4 /#5 /#6 /#7 /#8

2018

CATHERINE L. JOHNSON

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PLEASE CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO ENLARGE + FOR DETAIL.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINKS BELOW:

http://www.mnartists.org/artwork/open-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/sonic-artists-create-music-not-music-boxes/

 

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OPEN I                                                                                                   Catherine L. Johnson  2018

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OPEN II                                                                                                   Catherine L. Johnson  2018

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OPEN III                                                                                                   Catherine L. Johnson  2018

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OPEN IV                                                                                                  Catherine L. Johnson  2018

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OPEN V                                                                                                  Catherine L. Johnson  2018

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OPEN VI                                                                                                  Catherine L. Johnson  2018

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OPEN VII                                                                                                 Catherine L. Johnson  2018

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OPEN VIII                                                                                                 Catherine L. Johnson  2018

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My work is an exploration,

a dive for pearls and sacred listening – call and response.

IMPROVISATIONAL COURAGE

My internal constellation is a luminous vast sky and sea that sings, whispers and dances.

I follow, discover and explore its sonicenergy with my divining rod.

I am a faithful  and clear vehicle of listening – a sensitive + keen stringed instrument.

Sacred listening.

TRUST  

FAITH  

RADICAL HOPE

The OPEN compositions are

dialectical revelations of  

the capacity to RISE,

sustain radical HOPE,

be STILL in ambiguity,

and

BELIEVE in what your blood and bone already KNOW to be true

– like a farmer, a detectivepriest, and an improvisational musician.

STILLNESS.

SACRED LISTENING.

OPEN.

Being OPENED.

Willing to be OPEN.

Willing to be OPENED.

Being BREATH.

Being A/LIVE.

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The sonicPEARLS

to my OPEN #1/ #2/ #3 /#4 /#5 /#6 /#7 /#8 series

was/is the

sonicDARKsTarGENIUS of the profound + VALIANT improviser

Anthony Cox + his THAT & THIS.

Yes, absolutely.

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A MASTERWORK. A MASTER’S WERK.  A MASTERPIECE.

Please click on link below to listen, listen, listen to samplings of

Anthony Cox’s original compositions:

https://ateliersawano.com/products/ske333029

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#807 + eMOTIONal TRIGGERS + TRIGGERland – the “altered”/ super blunder state + TRIGGERS can be “rooted UP + OUT” = YAAAY! FREEDOM! LIVING LOVE with HONOR/ RESPECT/ CLARITY!

VALIANT

I love the abstract meaning of VALIANT.

Above and beyond the mere written definition,

I love its REAL demonstration in

living an examined life, living authentic love,

and

achieving  luminous riSINGs from naming, clearing and conquering/mastering challenges

when describing a mere individual

who meets and confronts their internal/external beasts/demons/dragons head-on

steering their ship with clearsight, discernment, wisdom, courage,  compassionate grace

 and is

TRIUMPHANT

 in overcoming – creating a new pattern of being in the world.

No one is ever alone when one is truly, purely loved for who they are.

Yes, there is always the necessary solitude, silence, sorting to SEE the sea

– yet, a beloved is never forgotten.

Triumph is the courage to know the value of who you are

and

be a compassionate, tender, loving guardian of your own welfare and happiness.

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Good NEW BREED LEADERS’, masters’,  interactions in their internal/ external world is more than being valiant, they must have a certain capacity for thinking beyond binary/polarities and tapping into full, embodied knowing (prayer/meditation). They have a tolerance for ambiguity (faith), an ability to hold creative tensions (radical hope), and an ability to care (love) beyond their own personal advantage.

[val-yuh nt]

adjective

1. boldly courageous; brave; stout-hearted: a valiant soldier.

2. marked by or showing bravery or valor; heroic: to make a valiant effort.

3. worthy; excellent.

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As we start trying to love,

we begin to realize that we’re actually

not loving very well.

We are mostly meeting our own needs.

The word for this is “codependency.”

This kind of love is still impure and self-seeking

and

thus is not really love at all.

So, we have to pull back

and

learn the great art of detachment,

which is not aloofness but

the purifying of attachment…

…The creative, transformative dance

between attachment and detachment

is sometimes called

the Third Way.

It is the middle way between fight and flight.

Some prefer to take on the world:

to fight it, change it, fix it, and rearrange it.

Others deny there is a problem at all.

“Everything is beautiful,” they say and look the other way.

Both instincts avoid holding the tension,

the pain, and the essentially tragic nature of human existence.

The contemplative stance is the Third Way.

We stand in the middle,

neither taking the world on from another power position

nor denying it for fear of the pain it will bring.

Once we can stand in that third spacious way,

neither directly fighting or fleeing,

we are in the place of grace

out of which genuine newness can come.

This is where creativity and new forms of life and healing emerge.

Richard Rohr: “Essential Teachings on Love”

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Each and everyone of us is a unique,

unrepeatable and dynamic

Universe.

Our night skies of scintillating stars,

our unique internal constellation,

and 

our dawnings of awakenings/epiphanies are catalysts

to create new possibilities and generate

stories that are fluid, ripe blossoming vines,

FLOWING,

generating life-affirming energies

to RISE

discovering exploring and welcoming

ADVENTURE.

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We can choose to be a riSING enLIGHTened LOTUS.

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Or, not

– unwilling to evolve, learn, discover, improvise and overcome. STUNTED/STUCK/SAD/KEEPING EYES WIDE SHUT 

turning AWAY

from one’s light, truth and blooom.

 

 

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Some of our stories can halt time/space

and 

freeze into eMOTIONal TRIGGERS

that cloud our SEEING and  STOPS our movement to DANCE with YES.

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Can a healing

breakthrough

occur

and

part the clouds, seas and reactive visceral wasteland

into a

NEW HAPPYJOY SONG?

YES?

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Hubris <> Humility 

HUBRIS: 

“Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.”  Carl Jung

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“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Maya Angelou

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HUMILITY:

“Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.”  Thomas Merton

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“Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.”

Saint Augustine

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2 June 2018        Catherine L. Johnson

 

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eMOTIONal TRIGGERS

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Telling the truth, disclosing, revealing an eMOTIONal TRIGGER to a beloved is the courage of love. INTIMATE information of being naked, vulnerable, overwhelmed. Being in TRIGGERland is NOT the NOW – it is the THEN when I had NO VOICE. The revelation can be hurled out as a HOWL, a blaring SIREN, a dog  growling showing its teeth when its tail is wagging because I am telling YOU – who I trust with ALL my heart.  I may sound stern and SCARY because I am anxious, exposed and ashamed. It is MY work to be a responsible and loving FARMER.  I must confront the eMOTIONal TRIGGER – find its roots, recognize its origin and PULL it UP and OUT because my eMOTIONal TRIGGER may possibly incite an eMOTIONal TRIGGER in you  – and, this could generate an OH NO a downward spiral and SHUTdowns may occur. We learn from disclosures and sacred listening and then adapt, improvise to overcome – ALL to move forward with sweet honorable love.

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 I desire to inspire and seed BLOOMING. Relationships, like gardens, are ALIVE, dynamic, need tender nourishing, nurturing, and the continuous practice of the Serenity Prayer to uphold its health and dance – to live and move forward like the MIGHTY Mississippi River. Like a GOOD FARMER, I know I must tend to my own garden by digging FAR DOWN, carefully identify, extricate and releasE the OLD knotted unhealthy roots that holds back my breath and laughter – living LOVE WITH who I love.

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BLOOOM #5                                                                                              Catherine L. Johnson  2017

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FREEEEEEdom.

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Quietly, sweet. I do ask for patience + assistance so I may SOAR, freed, please. I would be honored to reciprocate and give you my patience and assistance as you EXPLORE the BOUNDLESS skies and seas within you. NEW constellations and compositions THAT IS living ELATION. YES. To be the guardians of each other’s solitude.* Absolutely!  

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VITAL RAF WHITE  SILK SCARF TRUTH:

When navigating difficult waters between one another – a dark night, it is absolutely critical to NOT use the BINARY vehicle of hard, cold email, it divides and sterilizes the poem, the beauty, the radiant song, the lullaby, the laughter, the joy and the blessed gift of who you are together. The difficult waters NEED the MUSIC of BOTH of your LIVE presences, your souls, your full spectrum voices, your intimate hymn and code to make the voyage and BREAKTHROUGH into dawns + ONTO new horizon of more refined truths and living love. The binary nature of email is dualistic, does not surrender to a higher consciousness, damages, does NOT improvise, it destroys + devours, obfuscates, and is basically an evil coward whose teeth cannot hear and cannot SEE the luminous pearls that lives in BOTH of your hearts. Yes, writing to one another OPENS exhilarating vistas of WONDER and AWE – sharing each other’s INTERNAL UNIVERSE which is FREEDOM, especially when the writing is received with delight, welcomed and treasured as a rare gift. Yet, in times when sacred  listening and collaboration is necessary email fails to be a  brilliant hurricane lamp. The sonics of bliss is PRESENCE and is the FIRE of how dissonance becomes consonance once again followed by FRESH resonances >NEW MUSIC< BOTH arrivING on NEW shores of comfort and JOY together – MISSION accomplished. Knowing/TRUST the heart map IS  always inked in your RAF WHITE  SILK SCARF, listen to your soul’s knowing – HOMEfires! The revelation of LIGHT enters the dark with GRACE releasing false narratives/perceptions and compasses are reset, clarified, with BOTH of your coordinates of TRUE North. Your spitfires are readied to SOAR into majestic skies with FAIR PLAY!

 

LOVE is COURAGE

COURAGE is LOVE

LIVINGloVE is the most profound improvisational collaborative innovative jazzNEWmuseic.

VALIANT.

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Life is in relation and called out by our collaborative relationships we select and nurture with integrity.

 

When someone is NOT in TRIGGERland, they have a clearer perspective of what they want in life. CLARITY, a clear lens to see what IS.

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YES, eMOTIONal TRIGGERS can be “rooted UP + OUT“! 

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YAAAY! FREEDOM! LIVING LOVE with HONOR/ RESPECT/ CLARITY! LOVE is an ENERGY, a vibration, and like the BEST GENIUS SONICS, LOVE is improvisational and collaborative. When MASTER sacred listening is woven WITH unfolding conversations  and NEW imaginative questions   – (catalysts of amaZING GRACE vistas),  LOVE LIBERATES! Authentic, call and response love IS a practice, a voyage, a BREAKTHROUGH, that yields bliss and tastes of HEAVEN on EARTH. A  blesSING, a blessed gift.

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Ask any ARTIST and/or GENIUS of any field of inquiry, WHY discipline and perseverance is necessary to create/nurture breathtaking beauty, elegance and surprise with grace. Their answer is of declaring the honoring and respecting the DIVINE within, and so it goes for LIVING LOVE.

 

FARMERS OF LOVE. 

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I am not perfect.

I believe

anyone, if willing, can be in the state

of awareness 

of their own self-directed choices, their thoughts,

choosing how to navigate their own internal /external circumstances

and  practice the dynamics of adjustments to what is real:

MOVING FORWARD IN LIFE 

demonstrated by courage and humility,

and

the willingness and the ability

to revise world views, perspectives, perceptions and amend behavior

through each life experience.

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HEALING  

needs to take place

at a deeper level than of conscious thought

– a place where the conscious mind is out of the way.

Re-wiring. Re-patterning. Re-learning. Releasing.

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LIVING a

FULLBLOOOOMING

loving life

is an unknown, non-binary

DANCE

navigating /negotiating

oceans of uncertainty,

PRACTICing, practICING, PRACTicing,

responsive and fluid adjustments to  life’s constancy of change

and

is

an exhilarating 

LIVING A/LIVE JOY DANCE

attuned to

Nature’s generous BOUNTIFUL offerings and  spiritual lessons:

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Opening UP

to

uncertainty, surrendering to FLOW and dedicated discoverylearning

IS

to reap/receive

HAPPINESS, WONDER + AWE.

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OntO

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2018/05/04/802-onto-1-2-3-in-or-into-a-state-of-awareness-about-may-2018-catherine-l-johnson/

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Releasing Emotional Triggers

PLEASE CLICK THE LINK  BELOW FOR THE ENTIRE ARTICLE

https://theoverwhelmedbrain.com/triggers/

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Summary: 

1. Triggers are like old cassette tapes that play old programs. You get triggered by someone or something that happens, and that old cassette plays once again.

2. When you’re triggered, you are regressing to a younger version of yourself that learned how to react or respond to your environment. If you had something happen to you when you were younger that caused a significant impact to your nervous system, where you felt high emotional stress, then that’s most likely when a trigger was formed.

3. We take these triggers that formed years ago into our adult relationships. This causes problems because most of what happens today is not the same context of when the trigger was created so long ago. If you formed triggers when you were a child living with your parents or other guardians, then that situation is different than your current situation, most likely. Though, you do have to be aware that some situations are similar. If you had an abusive mom or dad, then you married an abusive person, you created the same context in which your old triggers will stay active. Which is why it’s so important to break the pattern of old triggers so you can think from a place of clarity.

4. Thinking from clarity gives you more options, and allows you to see what you can’t see when you are triggered. When you can disengage trigger moments from the bad thoughts and feelings, you are empowered to engage your assertiveness, confidence, and conviction to state what you want and don’t want in your life. Living without the cloudiness of triggers is living with passion and purpose. It is a healthy, selfish state, instead of an unhealthy, self-centered, fearful state. There is a difference, as selfishness can contain compassion for others, while self-centeredness is more about your own ego – your own wants, needs, fears and desires. Remove the cloudiness, become healthy and make decisions that positively affect you and your well-being.

5. The steps to this entire process are as follows:

   Think of something that triggers you now.

   Identify the emotions that you get from being triggered.

   Go way back in your mind and think about the very first time you felt this way.

   If you can’t figure out what caused the trigger in the first place, just think of an age or a time period when it might have happened.

   Once you think of a time when it might have been created, think about a time long before that, when you didn’t have those negative feelings. Think about a day or a week, or even years, or maybe even lifetimes before that first event ever happened. This is just your brain’s way of storing information. Just allow it to go where ever it needs to go to find a place when all of those emotions are completely gone now.

   When you are way before any of those old feelings, come back to now, and imagine a time when you might get triggered in the future. Does it have the same impact? Are the emotions completely gone?

   I didn’t say this before, but if they have disappeared completely just lock that feeling into place, sort of like a safe with a combination lock. This safe is your safe and whenever you have an experience where that old trigger used to happen, your safe has locked into place what you’ll be feeling instead of those old feelings. Hey, this doesn’t have to make sense, you can just let old feelings go and allow yourself to feel safe. Now that’s something you want for yourself, right?

6. Finally, remember that triggers are almost always the creation and belief system of a child. When you were young, you learned how to respond to the world. Imagine if you kept all your childhood beliefs? Having a childlike playfulness can make life enjoyable sometimes, but having a childlike fear can be intrusive in normal life. It can wear you down and make you see the world through filters that aren’t necessarily telling you the whole truth.

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I know and accept

eMOTIONal TRIGGERS

are normal responses

from my/our

“experientially lived life stories”

 wired

brain. 

Yet, eMOTIONal TRIGGERS

do NOT have to STAY in my/our lives

if they are

CAUSING painful, super BLUNDERING

problems and SHUTdowns!

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To live in

TRIGGERland

is constant stress

that causes overwhelming + 222 much pain

that it makes me/one NEED to isolate

as the ONLY survival option

and

GO to the underground BUNKER

– alone

retreat to feel safe and to reset life

I know this.

HARD, eclipsing the vitality of breath + radical HOPE,

exhausting the HeART/ BODY/ SOUL.

This makes me sad, cry. I know THIS reality. I “get it”.

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BETTER to FARM

and

BLOOOOM!!!!!

LIVE GREEEN

CHOOSE adventure,

 unveil, disclose, reVEal 

taking the DISCIPLINED risk

of

entering

BEAUTY

+

HAPPINESS

because

LIFE is meant

to be

DISCOVERED / LIVED

as an explorer, a RAF

detectivepriest

of

one’s pursuit of

HAPPINESS

+

to LIVE one’s

TRUTH.

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R/evolution

as we

TELL THE TRUTH,

adapt,

IMPROVISE

overCOME.

 

 

A select few of us HUMANS

are dogs living in human bodies!

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LEARNDISCOVERY is life long

for the OPEN-hearted.

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Ask my dog,

Jaspar Obi

and

his BCF who is called Queen X

THEIR sentient intelligence

IS

an immeasurable

a DARK sTar energy

beyond

my/our comprehension.

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I fall because I am human and I lose my compass and vision.

I SUPER blunder and SOUND like a  sharpened scary SPEAR.

The dog heart in me believes in me, knows I am scared,

and KNOWS my capacity to learn and RISE,

once again, will occur with courage and compassion.

Forgive me.

I will try and  I will learn and I will improvise and I will overcome and I will heal.

I shall overcome with God’s GRACE and encouragement and illumination.

 

 

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LEARNINGDISCOVERINGTAKINGRESPONSIBILITY 

to recognize my/our triggers,

and

to start 

LOOKING INWARD 

for the solution,

NOT OUTWARD

at the world!!!

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“Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.“

Joseph Campbell

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rosE: FIRE III                                                                                        Catherine L. Johnson 2018

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2018/04/26/800-rose-fire-i-vii-april-2018-appear-hide-gold-pearls-or-snakes-scorpions/

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I was a submarine.

I am a submarine.

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2018/05/27/806-i-breathe-submarine-internal-violet-that-this/

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* “The point of marriage “of an improvisational and collaborative healthy loving relationship” is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage  “healthy, dynamic and  loving relationship” is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development. But once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2016/11/27/693-waterfall-willow-shelter-in-a-storm-yourmy-willow-oh-willow-when-the-sun-is-out/

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I fly spitfires + kites.

Do you?

 

I accept only CROWNS worthy of my respect, value, integrity and honor.

RAF pledge – “To look after ALWAYS.”

ONLY RAF/DUNKIRK MAVERICK Kind Thoughtful Gracious GentleMaN

 RAF MAVERICK/VALIANT MAN of Character / Practice / Principles

a man forever trying to improve himself

NO Runaway Bailouters NO Arrogant CUBES NO Negative Self-centered BITERS  NO Jonnies

“Piece of Cake” Fluent, Creative, NEW BREED LEADER Negotiators

=  COURAGEOUS RADICAL HOPE EQUALS = 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piece_of_Cake_(TV_series)

I do not jump hoops for a pellet, and there is no object in the whole wide galaxy that could ever rein me in.

I am an adventure.

My conscious choice, my active decision.

ADVENTurous Coeur

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Are you?

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INTeRACTIONS:

NO CUBeS. NO ROSCOeS. NO clinging CLAWS.

NO poor me blaming/shaming hostile WHINeRS   NO potato chip lazy TIMIDS 

ONLY a LOTUS GLOW GReeNS VALIANT SOUL!!!!!

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#806 + I BREATHe + SUBmarINe + INternal + vioLET + “THAT & THIS”

http://www.naval-encyclopedia.com/ww2/us-navy

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USS Hartford attack submarine breaking through Arctic ice.

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 A violet lotus blooms signifies a spiritual meaning of ascension, enlightenment, or rebirth.

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A person’s path in life is said to be similar to that of the

LOTUS.

Starting at the

SEED

stage,

early in the karmic cycle,

through to the bud emerging from the dirty water,

representing a person following the path

of spirituality and leaving attachment behind,

and finally

BLOSSOMING,

this is when a person has become

fully

AWAKENED.

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Please click link for  LOTUS 20TEN: A portfolio/ suites/ of the five senses: 

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2013/10/22/lotus20ten-yourvoiceismylullaby-lotusbloom-the-lotus-20ten-portfolio-a-cycle-of-sixteen-works-summer-of-2010-catherine-l-johnson-artist-suites-of-the-five-senses-sensual-sensuous-th/

 

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VIOLET

has the highest vibration in the visible spectrum.

Violet opens intuitive channels.

It is a color that is attracted to beautiful things

 and has a fragility,

sensitivity and vulnerability to it.

The color violet is of kindness,

inspiring unconditional and selfless love,

devoid of ego, encouraging sensitivity and compassion. 

Violet is the color of the humanitarian,

using its better judgment to do good for others

– combining wisdom and power with sensitivity and humility. 

Violet encourages creative pursuits and seeks inspiration and originality. 

Violet exudes a quiet form of dignity.

Violet is the color of the evolved soul. 

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I was a submarine.

I am a submarine.

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Diving, concealed, below the surface, unseen.

Breathing as a mermaid.

At times, holding my breath

until I would fall backwards

or

was sent to a dark innocent ocean.

No one would know my whereabouts

in my silence, in my solitude.

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My eyes were periscopes, forever scanning

the hushed life below,

the infinite skies above,

aware of the jagged edges

between land and sea.

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Suddenly, I would open wide

– inhale and

soar up

– breaking open the astonished still seas.

Majestically.

A water birth.

A sudden kiss.

Awe riSING fire on water.

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I would exhale all that I

had seen and heard and felt below.

Triumphant, I would reveal, tell.

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Glistening, I am radiant,

with all my secrets,

handwritten maps

and

sparkling pearls inside me.

Sleek and scarred,

me a shining pearl diver.

Life is living itself in me.

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Only a select Navy could detect me.

And, from that select Navy, only

one could SEE me

sensing the prism,

the steady calm of

my boundless Song of Songs,

the ancient luminous hallelujah hymns,

the blues and the gospels

of my woman’s voice, and

feel the private rapture within me

– ask me the story, my flowing story,

and listen, listening

and,

then shape

beautiful questions

with the bow

of  music.

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Quietly, I dive deep, and deeper

beyond anyone’s

sound and sight,

for spheric, shimmering,

iridescent rainbow 

pearls

– and I rise,

with pure amazement,

and elegant grace.

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Rhythm.

Rhythmically, breathing

the natural tide of awakenings

and the perfumed blooms

of Life’s simple joys.

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I was a submarine.

I am a submarine.

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Catherine L. Johnson

26 May 2018

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NOTE:  PEARLS. VIOLET. SOULSONIC MUSECATALYST.

I follow  with complete dedication and trust to

what is issued/issuing/sounding within me  

– and, then later I research the visual elements I have used.

Above is my research on the color violet.

Throughout is my research on submarines.

Anthony Cox / THAT & THIS was/is my  pearl, my soulsonic catalyst and muse.

Below is from my “post-creative process” research on/of pearls.:

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In Ancient China, it was believed that pearls

were actually spittle of dragons when they flew through the air to create rain,

therefore many Chinese wore pearls as talismans against fire.

Pearls  are symbolic of purity, innocence and faith.

With their natural elegance and beauty,

pearls are said to give the wearer

a sense of calmness

and centeredness,

and to promote faith,

loyalty, truth and purity. 

Pearls help one connect with the Goddess,

the ultimate feminine energy.

Pearls enhance personal integrity

and help clear ones mind so that it may be

a clean and clear channel

for wisdom and spiritual guidance.

They were once thought to be the tears of gods and goddesses in different ancient lore.

The pearl has been associated through the ages with the “matrix of life” itself. 

Pearls are associated with the 3rd, Sacral Chakra and 7th Crown Chakra.

Pearls will balance and heal all chakras

Pearls assist in the search for higher wisdom and truth,

absorbing negative energy from one who wears it,

assisting/guiding one to SEE

and deal with the truth of self.

A pearl moves one forward to inner wisdom

and strengthens and nurtures the growth of love.

The metaphysical properties of pearls blesses

a person to open up

and

explore the meaning and discover the purpose

of one’s “true self.”

 

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During the summer of 1985,

I created a series of work

using the shape

and the poetic,

multiple metaphors of a submarine

as vehicle, a confessional, a memoir

of self-portraits.  

I understand the quiet,

the honed senses,

the concealing, the intensity of suppression,

the necessity of vision quests.

the “call” /summons of/to the hero/ine’s

ADVENTURE / JOURNEY / LOTUSSUBMARINE VOYAGE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey

https://billmoyers.com/content/ep-1-joseph-campbell-and-the-power-of-myth-the-hero%E2%80%99s-adventure-audio/

and  the voyages within the dark nights of the soul.

The magnificence of soaring UP,

being able to fully BREATHe,

come out of hiding,

and tell,

telling the truth is always beautiful transcendence.

Overcoming, Exodus,

victorious liberation

opens UP

a vast golden field to enter

– to dance / to soar with one’s FULL natural wing span

with happiness and child like joy.

The art testified the poetic associations

of what a submarine

is to me.

No one knowing and my knowing.

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In 1993,

I wrote

“Listen, Listen, Listen

I Hear the Bloom Within the Seed”,

a libretto and the sonic catalyst

to my 1994 solo art exhibition of the same title.

I was unaware that I had actually inscribed an oracle,

a blueprint,

of what would become

my own vision quest

with all the stages of the hero/ine’s journey.

I have learned/discovered to welcome the “call”

and 

I abide.

 I no longer refuse the call.*

THAT is, I know THIS call for the journey, the voyage, the adventure

IS

beauty, truth and blissfreedom.

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*Refusal of the Call: 

Often when the call is given,

the future hero/ine first refuses to heed it.

This may be from a sense of duty or obligation,

fear, insecurity, a sense of inadequacy, or any of a range of reasons 

that work to hold the person in his or her current circumstances.

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Joseph Campbell:

“Refusal of the summons converts the adventure into its negative.

Walled in boredom, hard work, or ‘culture,’

the subject loses the power

of

significant affirmative action

and

becomes a victim to be saved.

His/Her flowering world becomes a wasteland of dry stones

and

his/her life feels meaningless

— even though, like King Minos, he may through titanic effort

succeed in building an empire or renown.

Whatever house he/she builds,

it will be a house of death:

a labyrinth of cyclopean walls

to hide him/her from his/her minotaur.

All he/she can do is create new problems for him/herself

and

await the gradual approach of his/her disintegration.”

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“The world still waits for the truth that will set us free

—my truth, your truth, our truth

—the truth that was seeded in the earth

when each of us arrived here

formed in the image of God.

Cultivating that truth, I believe, is the authentic vocation of every human being.”

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Parker J. Palmer,

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (Jossey-Bass: 2000), 11, 15,16-17, 36.

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 “Let your life speak.”

–  an old Quaker saying.

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“Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it,

listen to what it intends to do with you.

Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to,

let your life tell you what truths you embody,

what values you represent.

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Parker J. Palmer,

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (Jossey-Bass: 2000), 2-3.

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XUSS Medregal (SS-480)

http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08480.htm

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A MASTERWORK. A MASTER’S WERK.  A MASTERPIECE.

Please click on link below to listen, listen, listen to samplings of

Anthony Cox’s original compositions:

https://ateliersawano.com/products/ske333029

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#805 + SPRING + GREEN + BE SPRING GREEN +LISTEN/ LISTEN/ LISTEN +

ON 15 MAY 2018, EMILY, MY DEAR WARRIOR PRINCESS NIECE, TURNED 22 YEARS OLD!

TODAY, 17 MAY, EMILY GRADUATED FROM WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY – A PRE-MED MAJOR!

EMILY IS CLEAR BLUE SKY WOKE + RADIATES GLOW! 

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GREEN

is

the

HEART chakra

of the body,

the color

of SPRING,

of RENEWAL

and

REBIRTH.

GREEN

RESTORES

depleted energy.

GREEN

is

the

SANCTUARY

of

VIBRANT

LUMINOUS

CONFIDENT

JOYoUS

HAppy

PROMISED

KISS

of

SPRINGtime

RiSING

ELATION

RADICAL

HOPE!!!!!

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PAULO COELHO,

author of THE ALCHEMIST.

Hear What the Universe Is Telling You!

Do YOU remember the day that YOU REALIZE that YOU are ALIVE?

The HEART like a FLOWER,

it can be very BRAVE – but, can be easily HURT.

You have to talk to your HEART as a BRAVE person.

 

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“…We can LOOK

to the

NATURAL world

for INSPiRATION

as we

SEE

that ALL beings

SURRENDER

to the PROCESS

of BEING born.

In that surrender,

and

in the

CENTER

of our own

HEARTS,

is

a WILLINGNESS

to TRUST

in the

UNKNOWN

as WE make

OUR way

through

the

OPENING.”  

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Excerpt from

Contracting b4 Expanding

DailyOM  18 May 2018

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FYI: Surgery #48 aka RAF OPERATION: BREATHe was completed last week! YAAAY!  Full recovery: 12 months. May 18th = Day #10. Created the ABOVE after GAUZE MOUNTAINS were removed without Tylenol — that is the extent of my “share”! 

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YES. My art is both a vehicle of transcendence / overcoming + an offering of riSING! YES.

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BESPRINGGREEEEEEEEN,
Catherine

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DRGREENGELAKAAWCWEARETHEKISSOFRiSINGJOY

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Cameron Kasky‏Verified account @cameron_kasky

At least 8 students have been shot and killed at Santa Fe High School. Prepare to watch the NRA boast about getting higher donations. Prepare to see students rise up and be called ‘civil terrorists’ and crisis actors. Prepare for the right-wing media to attack the survivors.

8:25 AM – 18 May 2018

#804 + MOTHER’s DAY 2018 + YOU offer YOUR Mother’s LOVE to many souls…

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Bob + Steph’s garden.

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Bob planted this exquisite  lavender plant 2 days ago.

Bob + Steph  offered/provided a loving safe haven/harbor

while I am recovering from Surgery #48: 8 May.

Garden.

 

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MOTHER’s DAY!

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A Mother,
any Mother, is also one who gives life
with her tenderness and nourishment
 with her love.

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YOU offer YOUR Mother’s love to many souls

— and to creatures great and small…

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ALL LOVE,

Catherine

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My Mother, Doris Cottor Johnson Omlie, with her Abby (L) + Duncan

 

 

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My Aunt,  Sharon Cottor

 

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#803 + “THIS IS AMERICA” – Childish Gambino aka Donald Glover + FRESHDRIEDBLOODIAMHUMAN +

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THIS

IS

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THIS IS  TRUTH TELLING RAWBRILLIANCE

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FRESHDRIEDBLOODIAMHUMAN                                                         Catherine L. Johnson 2013

 

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IS  TRUTH

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2018/03/25/791-somber-solemn-shattering-march-for-our-lives-our-childrens-awakened-courageaction-exodus-from-americas-bystander-complicit-reality-show-m-o-when-silence-is-violence/

 

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ICANFEEL + MAS/SACRED LIVES + SUMMER 2015 + CATHERINE L. JOHNSON

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2015/06/17/icanfeel-summer-2015-catherine-l-johnson/

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New Yorker interview with Donald Glover

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Glover explained his periodic career changes by saying,
“Authenticity is the journey of figuring out who you are through what you make.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/05/donald-glover-cant-save-you

 

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