#1026 + FIRST SNOWSTORM! + X-SKI WONDERLAND!! + JOY IS______________!!! + ZACHSNOWSPORTK9

X
X
X

X
X

X
X

X
X

X

#1025 + 28 November 2022 + BIKING is my BEST CHOICE 4 processing ______! + ‘ee-kwuh–nim-i-tee’ 2020 Catherine L. Johnson

X
X
X

28 November 2022

X
X

BIKING 

is my BEST

choice + strategy

4 processing my painful + precious

e/motions.
X
X

X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X

ee-kwuh-nim-i-tee: H                Catherine L. Johnson  2020

X
X
X

‘ee-kwuh–nim-i-tee’

equanimity

X

mental or emotional stability or composure,

especially under tension or strain;

calmness;

equilibrium;

serenity;

self-possesion;

composure;

FREEDOM

X
X

#939 + ‘ee-kwuh-nim-i-tee’ D / E / F / G /H / I   2020 Catherine L. Johnson + Life is wildernessENERGY

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2020/08/05/939-ee-kwuh-nim-i-tee-d-e-f-g-h-i-2020-catherine-l-johnson-life-is-wildernessenergy/

#1024 + MISSISSIPPI RIVER + ‘PURE RIVER’ 1998 Catherine L. Johnson + ‘RIVER’ Joni Mitchell + Jacqueline du Pre ‘The Swan Le Cygne’ Saint-Saens

X

X

X

 

MISSISSIPPI RIVER  20 November   Catherine L. Johnson  2022

X
X
X
X
X
X
X

X

PURE RIVER   Catherine L. Johnson  1998

X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X

#1023 + GIVING THANKS GIVING + 24 November 2022 + GENEROUS INCLUSION IS GRATITUDE

THE PRACTICE OF THE GOLDEN RULE IS HUMANITY’S HOPE.

 

X
X
X

THANK YOU FOR BREATH.

THANK YOU FOR LIGHT.

THANK YOU FOR WATER.

THANK YOU FOR BLUE SKIES.

THANK YOU FOR THE LOVING HARBOR, NEST,  ILLUMINATING WISDOM OF MY TRUSTED FRIENDS.

THANK YOU FOR HOPE.

THANK YOU FOR LOVE IS.

THANK YOU FOR JOY.

X
X
X
X

 

GIVING

THANKS

GIVING

THANKS

GIVING

THANKS
GIVING
THANKS

GIVING

 

GIVING
THANKS
GIVING
THANKS

 

RADICAL
GRATITUDE

 

GIVING
THANKS
GIVING
THANKS

GIVING 
THANKS
GIVING

X
X
X
X

GRACELOVE

LOVEGRACE

X
X
X

X
X

INCLUSION WINS!

 

Including disabled / differently abled

ALL loving hearts

X
X

 

#1022 + HONORING my unrepeatable Uncle Bob – Dr. Robert Emil Cottor + The BALM of HONORING precious unrepeatable BELOVEDS who once lived…

X

HONORING MY UNCLE BOB

X

X

My beloved Uncle Bob

unrepeatable / irreplaceable

 

Dr. Robert Emil Cottor 

X

TAOS INSTITUTE:

https://www.taosinstitute.net/about-us/people/institute-officers-and-board-of-directors/board-of-advisors/bob-cottor

7 August 1932 through 7 November 2022

X
X
X
X

X
X
X

My Uncle Bob’s

dedicated love and his capacity

to SEE me

gave me WINGS!

X

X

X

The gaze

of his love

welcomed me,

believed in me.

X

 I walked

because

he could SEE me

walking.

X

I created art

because

he could SEE

the divinity,

 the rising,

 and

the hallelujah offering

of my art

to others.

X

4 October 2022:

Uncle Bob in his room.

His daughter Elizabeth and Aunt Sharon set his room with loving comfort.

My painting was chosen to be WITH him:

Pine Tree: INFINITY 2004*

Photographer: his daughter Suzanne

*

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2022/06/09/1098-9-june-2022-pine-tree-infinity-2004-catherine-l-johnson-the-whole-world-is-a-sacrament-honoring-my-late-mothers-94th-birthday/

 

X

He loved and supported

my complexity,

my passionate life force,

and

my courageous life story

–  my choices.

X

X

 BREATH 1998

The BREATH series of paintings was created when I was mute

in the wake of my Mother’s unexpected and sudden death.

The colors are luminous and evanescent – sacred,

sounding the awe when the soul rises / soars away from the body.

They were not for sale, yet, I knew Uncle Bob would honor the works.

His private collection included nine small BREATH paintings.

I was present when he lovingly with utmost respect and reverence

installed the nine work in his/ Sharon’s home.

X

The set of nine BREATH paintings are now in the home of his daughter / my cousin, Elizabeth.

X

 

X

 

X

7 May 2022

Uncle Bob’s 90th birthday

– holding the drawing I sent him to celebrate this milestone!

X
X
X

X

Uncle Bob and I paddled the St. Croix.

We reveled in our outdoor adventures and our dance of our creative minds.

His fierce gentleness as the LION at my gate was profound.

His mischief was marvelous!

Uncle Bob was a paragon of health – an Adonis athlete defying / transcending his polio!

X

I am the late Doris Cottor Johnson Omlie’s second daughter.

Uncle Bob was four years younger than my Mother

– they were once a fast creative team.

Together they created the Christmas pageants

at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Highland Park St. Paul.

Mom was the Director and her brother was the sound / light engineer.

He called her ‘Do’ – sound like ‘dough.

X

 

Uncle Bob was present

as we adjusted to the tragic

and

sudden death of Daddy at 32.

He came through for us.

He was our FUN / EXCITING young Uncle Bob:

  ice skating on Christmas Eve, boating / swimming on the St. Croix,

swimming across Lake Benedict at Pinehurst Lodge, Walker, Minnesota*

– always wearing /copying Uncle Bob’s NOSE PLUGS!

I was in plaster casts so I was the enthusiastic observer and cheerleader!

*Where the Cottor siblings gathered every summer when we were young.

 

X

 

His keen truth-tellings were light towers

– breaking through convention and dark shrouds.

He was my mentor, a trusted lantern, and compass.

He held my hand.

X
X
X

CATHERINE’S COURAGEOUS COMPASSION CIRCLE

A touchstone event: the congenital dysplasia of my right leg joints came

to an irreversible crossroad in the Spring of 1999.

My hip joint was breaking apart.

My orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Rod Peterson, stated it is NOT known IF a total hip replacement would work,

and,

IF the reconstruction does not succeed, you will live in a wheelchair.

You will need to lie back at 120 degrees and keep still for eight weeks.

You will need a committed, cohesive, and reliable support system.

My epiphany response:

I will create CATHERINE’S COURAGEOUS COMPASSION CIRCLE of concentric circles!

The surgery: 26 May 1999

Uncle Bob and Aunt Sharon were in the GOLD ring.

Of course,

Uncle Bob flew out to be WITH me

– quieting me and being my LION at the gate.

Picture: August 1999.

The Cottors welcomed me to rehab WITH them in their Scottsdale home.

Uncle Bob, once again, guided me to rise and walk.

X
X

 

He is forever the maverick eagle

whose reserved dignity, multi-spheric creativity,

INTEGRITY

radiant humanity, loving kindness

was

a lived Odyssey.

X

Uncle Bob and his beloved, love of his life, Sharon were authentic partners / co-creators

– a goodness of fit

and

a template /legacy of what is an original evolving heal/thy relationship.

X

FIFTIETH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

Bob and Sharon Cottor

My painting, Pine Tree: Te DEUM,  was commissioned by Uncle Bob FOR Aunt Sharon.

A serene offering to comfort her – be a balm.

 

X

X

He was poem of a man

– an unfolding symphony of benevolence and compassionate courage

will forever live and soar

in

my heart, bone, blood, and breath.

ALWAYS.

ALL WAYS.

X

X

On  11 November,

VETERANS DAY,

a cold overcast Minnesota day,

 a mature male eagle

soared and circled overhead

as I biked.

X

I knew the lone eagle,

that GLORIOUS eagle,

was

my Uncle Bob:

the open and wide wing span,

the majesty of the elegiac looping flight,

and

the astounding AWE.

Beautiful.

X

GRACELOVE

X
X

11 September 2022

Uncle Bob

Photographer: his daughter Suzanne

X
X
X
X
X

Call and response:

we all live multiple and diverse stories in our lives

and

with all the various relationships we engage in.

X

X

We are never static – the only constant is change!

ONE story is not THE story of any of us.

X
X

Each life is a multi-faceted

DIAMOND

of light,

of shadow,

and

of color.

X

 

Viking Language, Runes, and Poetry:

Words could carry praise telling of a man’s drengr-like activities,

earning him

orðstírr:

the state of being where people talk about you and speak your name,

even after death.

X

The ancient Viking poems

tell us that

orðstírr

is the only part of man

that is

ETERNAL.

X

My stories are told by clicking on links below:

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2018/07/10/812-open-9-10-11-12-13-14-dedicated-to-my-beloved-uncle-bob-dr-robert-cottor-2018-catherine-l-johnson-violet-light-submarines-this-is-love-to-fly-to-a-secret-sky/

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2020/08/07/941-7-august-2020-happyhappyhappy-birthday-uncle-bob-dearest-uncle-bob-my-uncle-bob/

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2012/07/16/r-i-p-dr-ted-reid-15-july-2012-harlem-a-boys-life-an-earthy-and-elegant-gentleman/

X
X
X

X

X

Uncle Bob at 21 years in one of his several boats!

X
X
X
X

My ‘RUNES’ and my runic inscription of my Uncle Bob’s VOYAGE in my life.

X
X
X
X
X

 

Uncle Bob loved ALL music.

 He loved the sonic offerings of Andrew Lloyd Webber.

X
X

THANK YOU

MY ALWAYS

UNCLE BOB

X
X

 

My friend Charles’

reverent/incandescent sonics

are rowing me

through my grief + my mourning

of

my Uncle Bob…

gracelove 2 Dorothy + 2 Charles

X
X
X
X
X

OBITUARY

Dr. Robert Emil Cottor

August 7, 1932 – November 7, 2022

X

Please click:

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/scottsdale-az/robert-cottor-11005212

X

“Robert (Bob) Cottor was born in St. Paul, Minnesota

on August 7th, 1932,

to Emil Cottor and Edna Strand Cottor.

He was the youngest of three children including his sisters

Anne Cottor Kuhn

and

 the late Doris Cottor Johnson Omlie…”

X

“…Bob is survived by his wife,

Sharon Cottor

and

four children and their spouses:

Lynn Cottor Curlovic / Ken Curlovic,

Suzanne Cottor Sikora,

Jonathan Cottor / Holly Cottor

and

Elizabeth Cottor Bellerson / Darin Bellerson.

He had 5 grandchildren, Catie Sikora, Ethan Cottor, Jim Sikora and Lukas Bellerson.

Bob was preceded in death by his grandson, Ryan Cottor.

X

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy

may be shared

at

www.greenacresmortuary.net

for the Cottor family.”

 

X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X

18 November 2022

X

 

X
X

X

#1021 + VETERANS DAY 2022 + HONORING HEROES + HONORING HER/OES + The BALM of HONORING precious unrepeatable BELOVEDS who once lived + HONORING my Uncle Bob – Dr. Robert E. Cottor

X

X

My beloved Uncle Bob

unrepeatable / irreplaceable

Dr. Robert E. Cottor 

https://www.taosinstitute.net/about-us/people/institute-officers-and-board-of-directors/board-of-advisors/bob-cottor

7 May 1932 through 7 November 2022

Uncle Bob’s dedicated love and his capacity to SEE me gave me wings.

He loved and supported my complex, passionate life force, and courageous life story – choices.

He is the maverick eagle whose reserved dignity, multi-spheric creativity,

radiant humanity, loving kindness

and

poem of a man – an unfolding symphony of benevolence and compassionate courage

will forever live and soar

in

my heart, bone, blood, and breath.

ALWAYS.

ALL WAYS.

X

Today,

a cold overcast Minnesota day,

 a mature male eagle soared and circled overhead as I biked.

I knew that was my Uncle Bob

– the wide wing span and the looping flight.

Beautiful.

X

GRACELOVE

X
X

HONORING MY UNCLE BOB

Call and response:

we all live multiple and diverse stories in our lives

and

with all the various relationships we engage in.

We are never static – the only constant is change.

ONE story is not THE story of any of us.

Each life is a multi-faceted DIAMOND of light, shadow, and color.

X

 

Viking Language, Runes, and Poetry:

Words could carry praise telling of a man’s drengr-like activities,

earning him

orðstírr:

the state of being where people talk about you and speak your name,

even after death.

The ancient poems

tell us that orðstírr

is the only part of man

that is

eternal.

X

My stories:

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2018/07/10/812-open-9-10-11-12-13-14-dedicated-to-my-beloved-uncle-bob-dr-robert-cottor-2018-catherine-l-johnson-violet-light-submarines-this-is-love-to-fly-to-a-secret-sky/

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2020/08/07/941-7-august-2020-happyhappyhappy-birthday-uncle-bob-dearest-uncle-bob-my-uncle-bob/

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2012/07/16/r-i-p-dr-ted-reid-15-july-2012-harlem-a-boys-life-an-earthy-and-elegant-gentleman/

X
X

THANK YOU

MY ALWAYS

UNCLE BOB

X
X

My friend Charles’ reverent/incandescent sonics rowing me

through the grief + mourning of my Uncle Bob…
gracelove 2 Dorothy + 2 Charles

X
X

X
X

X
X

X
X

X

X

X

X
X
X
X
X

X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X

My Uncle Bill, my Daddy’s older brother

13 APRIL 2019 Johnson’s Corner Uncle Bill 1st Lieutenant William Henry Johnson

X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X

X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X

X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X

X

X
X
X
X
X
X
X

X

X
X
X
X
X
X
X

X

X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X

X
X
X

X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X

X

VETERANS DAY

 HONORING OUR HEROES

HONORING OUR HER/OES

NOT LOSERS + NOT SUCKERS

X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X

X

I lit a

balsam fir scented candle

this morning.

The candle burning/flickering bright ALL day.

The scent created a chapel found in a quiet forest.

I tied a chartreuse ribbon

onto Zachary’s collar this morning.

Wearing a chartreuse ribbon

is to honor

the spring green renewal,

the resurgence of eternal prevailing  love

 –  the Jaspar Obi love…

💚

X

X

JASPAR OBI

30 April 2007 – Veterans Day  11 November 2019

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2019/11/18/884-the-annunciation-of-jaspar-obis-soulspirit-deer-dear-beautiful-beautiful-beautiful/

X
X
X

#1020 + 8 November 2022 + America’s MID-TERM ELECTION DAY + VOLUNTEER step UP / SERVICE 4 our DEMOCRACY!!!

X
X
X

---

X
X

 8 November 2022

  America’s

MID-TERM

ELECTION

X
X
X

VOLUNTEER

step UP / SERVICE 4

our

DEMOCRACY!!!

X
X
X

Worked

4

District #2 for U. S. Representative Angie Craig

because

my U. S. Representative Betty McCollum

was safe

in my District 4

X
X

Cheryl Greene (Angie’s wife)

and

U. S. Representative Angie Craig

X
X
X
X

 

U. S.  Representative Angie Craig’s

FIELD ORGANIZERS:

Poorva (phone banking)

I called approximately 700 GOTV (Get Out The Vote) calls throughout Minnesota!

Kegan (door knocking)

X
X
X
X

The mighty CAMPAIGN DUO since Senator Barack Obama!

X

Steph and I knocked on 150 DOORS

for

Angie and the Minnesota DFL!

X

X

On this early ELECTION DAY morning,

we waved SIGNS

on the meridian

of a major intersection in Eagan!

X

Think:

throw me down WIND gusts

and

frozen face COLD!

X
X

X
X
X

DFL BALLOT HAT!

X
X
X
X

X

X

PRE-ELECTION RALLY!

X

left 2 right:

U. S. Senator Tina Smith

U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar

Governor Tim Walz

State Auditor Julie Blaha

X

X

U. S. Senator Amy Klobuchar

X

X

U. S. Senator Tina Smith

X
X

State General Attorney Keith Ellison

X
X

U. S. Representative Angie Craig

X
X
X
X
X
X
X

Ukrainians  FIGHT for their DEMOCRACY.

Democrats FIGHT for OUR DEMOCRACY.

VOTE BLUE!

 

X
X
X

MINNESOTA VOTED BLUE!

X
X
X
X

‘7 reasons to be optimistic

about

the future of democracy‘

Jennifer Rubin

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/13/midterms-democract-7-reasons-optimism/

✔✔✔✔ Fourth,

younger voters have learned to show up at midterm elections,

boding well for the health of democracy and progressive values.

The Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University

found that “27% of young people (ages 18-29)

turned out to vote in the 2022 midterm election

and helped decide critical races,

wielding the growing power of a generation that is increasingly engaged

even as many remain disillusioned about U.S. politics.”

Again, this didn’t match 2018’s numbers,

when 31 percent of young people voted,

but it is

“likely the second-highest youth turnout rate for a midterm election

in the past 30 years.”

 

#1019 + 31 October 2022 + HOWL-O-WEEN! + ZACHAR-BOO! – BAT DOG!

X
X
X

ZACHARY

ZACHAR-BOO!

BAT DOG!

X

X
X
X

X
X
X

#1018 + ‘CARESS OF PEACE: to refresh’ 2022 Catherine L. Johnson + NATURE’S offerings + visual scores

X
X
X

CARESS of PEACE: to refresh         Catherine L. Johnson   2022

 

X
X
X
X
X

 

visual score

‘CARESS of PEACE: to refresh‘  

This is true of authentic love, living love:

Nature’s beautiful offering and gift – not forced – an amazing grace of natural living love.

Let it BE y/our LIFE…

 

Catherine L. Johnson

2022

X

X

Derwent Studio ‘Bottle Green’ pencil on archival heavyweight board

original drawing measures:

18″H x 14″W

X
X
X
X
X
X

Pine Tree: An Appeal to Heaven  Catherine L. Johnson  2000

private collection

X
X
X
X
X

X
X
X
X
X

Mother’s Water Writing: A                    Catherine L. Johnson   2019

 

X
X
X
X
X

X
X
X

 

For further information and details,

please click on the links below:

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2022/10/22/1016-caress-of-peace-with-crimson-2022-catherine-l-johnson-natures-offerings-visual-scores/

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2022/10/15/1015-caress-of-peace-2022-catherine-l-johnson-natures-offerings/

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2022/09/19/1112-19-september-2022-leaders-of-loving-service-pine-tree-hope/

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2018/08/19/822-pine-tree-an-appeal-to-heaven-1999-catherine-l-johnson-living-pine-tree-vento-nature-sanctuary-18-august-2018/

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2019/08/20/875-mothers-water-writings-a-catherine-l-johnson-2019-palmer-method-of-handwriting/

X
X
X

I acknowledge

that my works of art are

visual scores

for

‘chants / gospels / lullabies’

songs 4 the

HEARTBODYSOUL

2 align

+

RISE

+

BREATHE

FREEDOM

X
X
X
X
X

 

#1017 + 24 October 2022 + My Zachary is THREE today!!!

X
X
X

Zachary is THREE today!

X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X

My Zachary!

X
X

RESCUED

by me

when he was 5 months old

right before the COVID-19

pandemic nationwide shut down!

X
X
X

Blue Heeler x Black Lab!

ATHLETIC x SMART x SWEET!!! 

K9 Navy SEAL!