Don’t hide yourself
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MY RAF K9 JASPAR OBI TAUGHT ME YES LOVE + YES LOVING IS THE ELIXIR OF FOXHOLE MATES
JASPAR OBI
JASPAR – TREASURE in Persian + OBI – HEART in West African
Naming is a sacred blessing.
👑WARRIOR👑
30 April 2007 – Veteran’s Day, 11 November 2019
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THY / HEAL
HEAL / THY
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INDIVIDUALS
NAVIGATING
CHRONIC INVISIBLE* / VISIBLE CHALLENGES
*BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY IRREGULARITIES CAUSED
BY CONGENITAL and/or EXTERNAL EVENTS
MUST CAPTAIN THEIR SHIPS
IN UNKNOWN
VAST SEAS OF CALM + TURBULENCE.
RESPONSIBLE.
ACCOUNTABLE.
NO EXCUSES.
NO BAITS.
NO HOOKS.
CLEAN.
CLARITY.
AWARENESS of SELF-SABOTAGE.
AWARENESS of EXTERNAL SABOTAGE.
ESSENTIAL
to
LOCATE / COMMIT
the
BEST RESOURCES
WHO SEE/CHAMPION YOU
and
NAVIGATE
with
SELF-LOVE.
NEVER to be POSITIONED as a VICTIM or a HOSTAGE!
YOU
are
NOT at FAULT
or
to feel guilty,
or
less than whole
or
be blamed,
or
live as a ‘pathology’
yet,
IT IS VITAL to TAKE RESPONSIBILITY
to be
proper and caring
GARDENERS!
YOU ARE YOU!!!
IRREPLACEABLE / UNREPEATABLE
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OWNING Y/OUR STORY!!!!!
WITH
THE
STRENGTH
and
PURSUIT
OF:
GOD’S GRACE
HUMILITY
RADICAL ACCEPTANCE
VULNERABILITY
RISK
WILLINGNESS
RADICAL HOPE
BEING KNOWN
SELF-RESPECT
RESURGENCE
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“Instead of lamenting to God
how BIG your troubles are,
show your troubles
how BIG your God IS.”
Thank you, KBH!
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Brava / Bravo
for choosing
team members
whose minds, bodies, spirits
contribute
to your healing long term.
Thank you, ALK!
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People tell stories to make sense of their suffering;
when they turn their diseases
into stories,
they find healing.
Arthur W. Frank recounts a stirring collection of illness stories.
Their stories are more than accounts of personal suffering:
they abound with moral choices and point to a social ethic.
Frank identifies three basic narratives of illness
in
restitution, chaos, and quest.
Restitution narratives
anticipate getting well again and give prominence to the technology of cure.
In chaos narratives,
illness seems to stretch on forever, with no respite or redeeming insights.
Quest narratives
are about finding that insight as illness is transformed
into a means for the ill person to become someone new.
A HEAVYWEIGHT RESPONSIBILITY.
YES, SUCCESS IS A DAILY PRACTICE
of
PATIENCE,
HUMILITY,
and
DISCIPLINE.
THERE IS NO SHAME IN WHO WE ARE.
ABSOLUTELY NONE!!!!!
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SELF-ADVOCACY!
RADICAL HOPE!
NO SHAME!
NO GUILT!
TELLING YOUR TRUTH!
STEPPING UP!
LOVE amaZING!
BRAVE!
GIANT STEPS!
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FYI:
INDIVIDUALS
who
NAVIGATE
CHRONIC
INVISIBLE / INVISIBLE CHALLENGES
are
NOT
DEFINED by their CHALLENGES!
ABSOLUTELY NOT!
Need FACTS?
Please click on the link!
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’37 Seconds’ on Netflix
👑WARRIOR👑
An aspiring manga artist with cerebral palsy seeks liberation
— and sexual experience —
in Hikari’s stereotype-defying drama.
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Offers new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity.
Based on Dr. van der Kolk’s own research and that of other leading specialists,
The Body Keeps the Score
exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal
—and offers new hope for reclaiming lives.
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👑WARRIOR👑
Real LIVED LIFE of:
ROBERT WHITTAKER
“A channel dedicated to those who live
the invisible challenge of bipolar.
This channel isn’t only for the millions of “Polar Warriors”
it is for ALL who
LOVE
someone
with the invisible challenge of bipolar.
and
want to understand more about
what it means to have bipolar .
Through the support, encouragement, education, and tools
found in these videos,
you HOPEFULLY will find yourself on a better path
to becoming your
GREATEST version!“
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👑WARRIOR👑
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REAL LIVED LIFE STORIES:
Beloveds
RYAN WILLIAM COTTOR
👑 WARRIOR 👑
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CONNIE CATES SHELLA
👑WARRIOR👑
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EDNA CATHERINE STRAND COTTOR
👑WARRIOR👑
My maternal Grandmother navigated severe rheumatoid arthritis + bedridden at 53.
Left to right: my brother Bill, me, my Grandma, and my sister, Lynne Johnson Omlie.
Brilliant, remarkable woman whose compelling presence defied her physical restrictions.
Adored by my Grandfather – they created/nurtured a dynamic, tender loving partnership.
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RICHARD HAROLD JOHNSON
👑WARRIOR 👑
My beloved Daddy navigated bipolar.
He was a WARRIOR. He fought for the quality of my life.
He was THE LOVE of my Mother’s life.
My brothers: Dr. William Johnson Omlie + Blake Johnson Omlie. I took them on 8/24/18. Sacred.
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A
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SUPPORTIVE CHOIR / CIRCLE
OF
SELECTED INDIVIDUALS
WHO ARE
DEPENDABLE,
SACRED LISTENERS,
TENDER,
HONEST – CALL YOU OUT,
LOVING,
VALIDATE,
TRUSTWORTHY,
LOYAL,
NO DHA MANIPULATION
(Drama Hysteria Acting)
and
CELEBRATE
YOU!
THEY
are
YOUR HEAL/THY ENSEMBLE!
THEY
are
THE LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS:
” I SEE YOU!!!! ”
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My
cherished, intimate and prevailing
relationships
are with those who are
responsible, dedicated and strive
to
RISE UP!
HEAL/THY!
ADVENTUROUS!
YES!
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THE GIFT OF BEING SEEN AS COMPLEX/WHOLE IS VICTORIOUS BEAUTY, WONDER + AWE!
A CHOIR OF MULTIPLES OR A SINGULAR LOVED ONE IS THE TOUCHSTONE OF YES!
I KNOW. YOU KNOW.
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TODAY! 13 February 2020
MY SNAKESKIN PRINT COMPRESSION LEGGINGS > HELPS TO “DE-SWELL” FRANKIE/STEIN!
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GREETINGS
from
FRANKIE
(left foot)
and
STEIN
(right foot)!!!
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Orthopedic reconstruction surgery #55 DAY: WHEEEEEEE!
ALL my toes and major joints – hips / right knee – were congenitally dislocated.
27 December 2019
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Post-op: 13 February 2020
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NO SHAME!
The lengthy HEAL/THY process demands loving love.
I am
so proud
of
loved ones
who continuously navigate
CHRONIC INVISIBLE / VISIBLE CHALLENGES
who
FALL and RISE
FALL and RISE
FALL and RISE
with
grace,
stalwart faith,
YES!
compassion,
GIANT STEPS,
and
courage
– ALL
decorated
RAF PILOTS
CAPTAINS!!!
👑WARRIORS👑
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I know it is not fair – hard,
excruciating,
beyond the pale
when we
feel all alone.
We are not victims.
We own our story.
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We
acknowledge our vulnerabilities.
We
make self-aware choices
with
WOW creativity,
heroic dignity,
loving love,
over the top humor,
and
GIANT STEPS!!!!!!
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YES
DECISIONS / CHOICES
for
RISING:
🌪VICTIM 🌪 > 🌲SURVIVOR🌲 > 👑WARRIOR👑
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FOR 👑VICTORIOUS 👑YOU !
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BLOOOMING
bouquets of gratitude
and
my boundless appreciation
of
loved ones
who entrusted me
with their luminous sacred beauty
– their story,
their truth,
their grit.
Blessings to YOU!!!
HONOR!
RESPECT!
ADMIRATION!
YOU
are
treasures,
remarkable,
shining,
rare,
beautiful,
unique
beloved
jewels!!!!
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Kindness is a revelation and a revolutionary action
– a powerful constant practice which changes lives.
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HIP + HAND + HEART
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YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!
BLOOOMresUrgence!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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WARRIOR OF TRUTH
WARRIOR WHO SERVES
WARRIOR FOR FREEDOM
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‘HOLD UNTIL RELIEVED’
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From: x@gmail.com>
Subject: victory
Date: July 5, 2019 at 10:30:34 AM CDT
To: “CatHERine L. JOhnsOn / art/ IS/ t” <catherineljohnson@earthlink.net>
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AWEMAN RRMAN =RAF ‘SILVER TOOTH’ TRUTH SEEKER DETECTIVEPRIEST
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HE IS A WARRIOR
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HE IS VICTORY
VICTORIOUS
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NURTURE NOURISH CELEBRATE WHAT BLOOOMS
A/LIVE BEYOND YOUR IMAGINATION
THAT IS LIFE’S NECTAR ELIXIR SWEETNESS
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The heart of a tulip.
I look INTO the internal beauty of living.
The art of a simple tulip.
Sublime.
For you to see and know.
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MY BLOOOM LIVES For AWC Catherine L. Johnson 2017
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When peoples
care for you
and
cry for you,
they
can straighten
out your soul.
Langston Hughes
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Why does one extinguish riSING bloooms that have sweet fire
and consciously choose to keep dead things/bad energies that block breath?
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IMAGINE:
What would occur each time
an individual
requesting for sincere forgiveness
from someone they have hurt and abused by words and/or actions
owning up and being accountable to causing visible/invisible searing injury
and
making actual amends
WAS
acknowledged and celebrated as
THE definition of VALIANT courage
and
the pinnacle of a HEROIC character?
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DEER / DEAR #1 Catherine L. Johnson 2016
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25 AUGUST 2018 Photo credit: me, Catherine L. Johnson
oneofmysecretplaces
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“Run your fingers through my soul.
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For once, just once, feel exactly what I feel,
believe what I believe, perceive as I perceive,
look,
experience,
examine,
and
for once;
just once,
understand.”
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Emily Dickinson
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“The soul should always stand ajar,
ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
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Emily Dickinson
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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:
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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:
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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
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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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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“In fact,
my soul and yours
are the same,
You appear in me, I in you,
We hide in each other.”
Rumi
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BLOOOM #2 Catherine L. Johnson 2017
BLOOOM #3 Catherine L. Johnson 2017
CATHERINE L. JOHNSON 