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GRACE #2 Catherine L. Johnson 2017
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GRACE,
a series of original paintings.
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Former Surgeon General
Dr. Vivek Murthy
on the
power
of
human connection.
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Please click on link to listen to the searingly beautiful and poignant interview.
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Loneliness is a common human condition, according to Dr. Murthy. And how connected we are to other human beings can have profound consequences for our health, including a greater risk of heart disease, anxiety, depression, dementia, and even premature death.
He says we need to understand the role human connection plays in our life, and look at the science behind loneliness.
In his book, “ Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World, ” Murthy says there are three types of loneliness— in intimate connections, in friends, and in community. And he shares his strategies for addressing these problems. For one thing, he says “service is a good antidote to loneliness.”
Creating a healthier life for yourself, he says, will also create a better world. “We may be in different boats, but we’re in the same storm.”
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Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation
From the Center for Action and Contemplation
THEME:
WOUNDED HEALERS
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Healing is being situated in love. Healing is not just the courage to love, but to be loved. It is the courage to want to be happy not just for others, but for ourselves as well. It is interrogating our bodies as an artifact of accumulated traumas and doing the work of processing that trauma by developing the capacity to notice and be with our pain. If we are to heal, then we must allow our awareness to settle into and integrate with the pain and discomfort that has been habitually avoided. We cannot medicate the pain away. We embrace it, and in so doing establish a new relationship with the experience. We must see that there is something that must be befriended. This is the true nature of our experience, and in finally approaching this experience we contact basic sanity. . . .
Healing is movement and work toward wholeness. Healing is never a definite location but something in process. It is the basic ordinary work of staying engaged with our own hurt and limitations. Healing does not mean forgiveness either, though it is a result of it. Healing is knowing our woundedness; it is developing an intimacy with the ways in which we suffer. Healing is learning to love the wound because love draws us into relationship with it instead of avoiding feeling the discomfort.
Healing means we are holding the space for our woundedness and allowing it to open our hearts to the reality that we are not the only people who are hurt, lonely, angry, or frustrated. We must also release the habitual aggression that characterizes our avoidance of trauma or any discomfort. My goal is to befriend my pain, to relate to it intimately as a means to end the suffering of desperately trying to avoid it. Opening our hearts to woundedness helps us to understand that everyone else around us carries around the same woundedness. . . .
Perhaps what I have come to understand, finally, is that somehow I have become the one I have always wanted. This is why I do the things that I do. There is a fierce love that wakes me up every morning, that makes me tell my stories, refuses to let me apologize for my being here, blesses me with the capacity to be silent, alone, and grieving when I most need to be. You have to understand that this is what I mean when I say healing.
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My feet since birth. I walked on my metatarsals.
AND,
I ALWAYS
DANCED, BIKED, KAYAKED, X-SKIED, SWAM
because
I love 2!!!!!!
AND, no matter
the aesthetics / function
of my GODDESSILLA feet,
I simply
adapted / improvised / overcame:
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Round #1: 12/27/2019 – reconstruction surgery #55
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Inflammatory response to the Anthrex plastic pins hammered into each toe
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Round #2: 5/20/2020 – reconstruction surgery #56
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Frankie and Stein barefoot in the grass
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My 4 August 2020 reveal: my FIRST open toe sandals featuring: Frankie + Stein!
Please click on image!
Lisa Richardson ( PT / TCO) is now teaching me the mechanics of WALKING!
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RADICAL HO PE:
faith perseverancevision
VICTORIOUS
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My boundless gratitude
for the collaboration
and
for the creative medical genius
of:
Dr. CO et ZEEEEEEEEEE
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Dr. Chris Coetzee’s
genius is now embedded
in my life long
transformative
physical /soul
improvisational
GIANT STEPS
narrative
joining
the embedded genius offerings
of:
Dr. Mark B. Coventry
Dr. Rodney Peterson
Dr. Mark Heller
Dr. Robert Trousdale
Dr. Clare McCarthy
Dr. Garret Griffin
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My transformed skeletal architecture
was made into an actual dance,
motion / mobility
because of a
cascading and sequential
dance card
of
remarkable choreographers
who I met with throughout my life:
my
PHYSICAL THERA+ PISTS.
Their challenge was the profound re-wiring / education of my body/brain.
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Their genius is embedded
in my life long
transformative
physical /soul
improvisational
GIANT STEPS
narrative.
My BOUNDLESS gratitude
for / to
(a select list) :
Mary Husband
Joan Milles
Jill Monson
Allison Mumbleau
Bonnie Glenzinski
Lisa Richardson
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BOUNDLESS gratitude
for the
WISERESPECTFULHONORABLEVIOLET
WAVELENGTH
guidance/advise
for life,
the very life of life,
life coaches
– each were/are
improvisational
GIANT STEP / ACTualiZiNG
heal/THY
visionaries!!!!!
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RADICAL HO PE:
faithperseverancevision
VICTORIOUS
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Yes ,
discern and choose
to love
and
be loved
with
those
who feeds the
GOOD WOLF
in you
and
feed the
GOOD WOLF
in your beloveds.
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V formation
is the symmetric V-shaped flight formation
of flights of geese, swans, ducks, and other migratory birds,
improving their energy efficiency.
V formations also improve the fuel efficiency of aircraft
and
are used on military flight missions.
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Thank you to you ,
ALL who danced with me
these last 7 months,
and,
in loving kindness,
‘flew’
with me!!!!!!
Oh my, beautiful you and beautiful you
and
beautiful you and beautiful you:
thank you!!!!!
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CALL and RESPONSE!!!!!
YOU reap what YOU sow
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you/he REAPs what you/he SOWs
“I read a lot.
I comprehend extraordinarily well.
Probably better than anybody you’ve interviewed in a long time,”
the president claimed.
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Please note:
the interstices: the pause/ the silence/ the time / the facets
between each panel
as well as the
metallic silver lines
buried layers below and gliding upon the surface
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SPLENDOR: A Catherine L. Johnson 2020
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SPLENDOR: B Catherine L. Johnson 2020
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SPLENDOR: C Catherine L. Johnson 2020
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SPLENDOR
Pink
Rough
Raw
Diamonds
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Diamonds
were formed over 3 billion years ago
deep within the Earth’s crust
under conditions of intense heat and pressure
hat cause carbon atoms to crystallize forming diamonds.
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Diamonds are found at a depth of approx. 150-200km
below the surface of the Earth.
Here, temperatures average 900 to 1,300 degrees Celsius
and at a pressure of 45 to 60 kilobars
(which is around 50,000 times that of atmospheric pressure at the Earth’s surface).
U nder these conditions, molten lamproite and kimberlite
(commonly known as magma)
are also formed within the Earth’s upper mantle
and
expand at a rapid rate.
This expansion causes the magma to erupt,
forcing it to the Earth’s surface and taking along with it
diamond bearing rocks.
Moving at an incredible speed,
the magma takes the path with least resistance,
forming a ‘pipe’ to the surface.
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Character – the ‘naming’
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The term
“diamond”
has been taken from the Greek term
“adamas”
which means
unconquerable.
It has been so named because the stone is known
for its
unbeatable hardness as well as durability.
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Rough raw diamonds
were mostly found in water
or
among the beach gravel.
Rough raw diamonds look like the remains of glass to the layman’s eyes.
Presently,
these precious gemstones are now sourced to
various igneous volcanic rocks
at certain places around the world:
South Africa, Siberia and Australia.
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The simple definition of a
rough raw diamond
is:
it is directly found / identified in the mine.
The stone has not yet been
engraved,
cut
or
polished
and
preserves / presents
the diamond’s
original and natural beauty
– the way it is…
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Healing Properties
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• Brings lucidity in mind
– one can use diamonds for bringing clarity to the mind.
Helping one remove the fears and inviting deep clear thoughts.
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• Improves creativity & inner vision
– Diamonds are also believed to enhance the inner vision in its wearer.
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• Enhances psychic powers
– the crystals are known and loved for improving
telepathic abilities and clairvoyance in the wearer.
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• Helps remove fear
– If you feel that fear is keeping you constraint in life,
diamonds are amazing crystals to assist you in the fight to remove fear:
giving you feelings of bravery and victory
and
keeps control over one’s fearful feelings.
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• Attracts victory and power
– diamonds are also used for inviting power, victory and bravery in life.
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• Provides help in healing
– rough raw diamond crystals brings healing to the mind
and
to any part/area of one’s body.
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Metaphysical Properties
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Diamond crystals are associated with proper meditation.
They are demanded as great channels and enhancers of energy.
They emit energy in form of vibration
and
connect the same with your consciousness.
These beautiful crystals of diamond serve
to enhance one’s psychic abilities.
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An important fact about diamonds
is that they are made of
carbon in its most steady form.
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A close and detailed analysis of rough diamonds presents crystallized carbon atoms.
These carbon atoms further show a cubic arrangement.
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Rough raw diamonds
can be found in
cube,
dodecahedron
and
octahedron
forms.
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The dialectic process
of
LIVING
a
BODY
MIND
SOUL
LIFE :
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OffeRINGS
that
QUIET
the
soul
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BREATHING
MEDITATIONS
for
YOU
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BREATHE
with
the circle’s
MOVEMENT
and
WIDEN
your soul
with the offerings’
vast
INTIMATE IMMENSITY
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INHALE EXHALE
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“When the soul
wants to experience something
she throws out an image
in front of her
and
then
steps
into
it .”
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Meister Eckhart , 14th century German theologian
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The circle symbol meaning is universal
– it represents the infinite nature of energy.
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STILLNESS
2018
Catherine L. Johnson
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For further i nformation on STILLNESS , please click on links below:
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STILLNESS #1 Catherine L. Johnson 2018
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BREATHE
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STILLNESS #2 Catherine L. Johnson 2018
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BREATHE
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STILLNESS #3 Catherine L. Johnson 2018
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BREATHE
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The
experience of the video
keeps our lives in perspective
+
keeps our souls open to WONDER.
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The sound of the VOICE of beloveds is a LULLABY.
In practicing the decree of social distancing,
choose
to create dynamic NEW ways
of
nurturing LOVING.
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Loving IS a lullaby.
Loving IS courage.
Loving IS humanity’s irreplaceable invaluable currency.
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ADAPT. IMPROVISE. OVERCOME.
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YES!
fear <<<<<<>>>>>> creativity
CHOOSE CREATIVITY
OPEN YOUR WINDOWS!
Attend to SIMPLE gifts
DINNER by Skype
LAUGHING sessions with your HILARIOUS friends
MUTE victimousers who choose negative
BE on EARTH with compassion to suffering
GO OUTSIDE!
Listen to the bird songs!
EXERCISE
to boost your endorphins + to maintain lung/heart fitness!
https://ymca360.org/on-demand#/
EAT Mediterranean rather than Milk Duds, Doritos, etc.
SACRED LISTEN to music – musician ACTivists are offering their sonics!
THANK ALL in the front lines: medical providers, grocery workers, etc.
CONTRIBUTE / STEP UP for others + y/our community
CALL y/our elders – the GREATEST GENERATION know!
ATTEND to the beauty of kindness and Nature’s splendor
PRACTICE RADICAL HOPE!!!!!
BE AWARE of calling out and offering Y/OUR light to others
WAVE + HELLO to everyone YOU see!
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Heal / THY
Heal / THEE
Heal / THINE
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YES! EXCELLENT RESOURCE: Q/A !
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SOCIAL DISTANCING is THE GOLDEN RULE !!!!
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BREATHE
BE WELL CHOOSE WELL STAY WELL
Catherine
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Softly : earTH I-VIII
timeless elegance – colors of our Earth
2012
each original painting measures: 13″ H x 10.5″ W
Catherine L. Johnson
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I dedicate
the presentation
of this
specific series of paintings
to ALL whose hearts and lives
were/are
navigating through,
coping with,
and,
rising up with courageous resilience
the terrifying, traumatic wildfires in California:
Kincade Fire / Sonoma County
Tick Fire / Los Angeles County
Getty Fire / Los Angeles County.
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California wildfire questions answered in the link below:
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I send you the life force
of the continuous energy of
GRACE LOVE + RADICAL HOPE.
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Green:
Green is color of the Heart chakra.
Green is the color of revitalization, hope, and rebirth.
Green is serene, calming, and stress-relieving.
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Softly : earTH I Catherine L. Johnson 2012
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Softly : earTH II Catherine L. Johnson 2012
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Softly : earTH III Catherine L. Johnson 2012
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Softly : earTH iV Catherine L. Johnson 2012
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Softly : earTH V Catherine L. Johnson 2012
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Softly : earTH VI Catherine L. Johnson 2012
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Softly : earTH VII Catherine L. Johnson 2012
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Softly : earTH VIII Catherine L. Johnson 2012
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PURE
K9
JOY!!!!!
VIDEO
WO XO F!
JASPAR O BI
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2017: MY AMAZING ZING ZING JASPAR OBI RUNNING
THROUGH VENTO NATURE SANCTUARY!
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DAWNING #5 Catherine L. Johnson 2017
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DAWNING #6 Catherine L. Johnson 2017
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DAWNING #7 Catherine L. Johnson 2017
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For further information on the DAWNING series, please click on the links below.
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Renshabo – Kamakura Era
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Imakita Kōsen (1816-1892)
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In Zen , ensō (円 相 , “circle” )
is a circle that is hand-drawn
in one or two uninhibited brushstrokes
to express a moment
when the mind is free to let the body create.
These paintings were done as a type of moving meditation,
s o therefore unlike conventional artists
who strive for variety and originality,
these artists brushed the same subjects
over and over,
using the same pattern strokes.
The paintings showed not only the spiritual quality of the artist,
but the uniqueness of each moment in time as well.
So each one is different,
even though done by the same person
moments apart.
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Playing with freedom
can only come
after
a certain amount of foundational study.
– Geri Allen
Geri Antoinette Allen
(June 12, 1957 – June 27, 2017)
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GRACE #7 Catherine L. Johnson 2017
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ELEgancE #2 Catherine L. Johnson 2018
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sacred listening
living your truth
self awareness
KINDNESS
radical hope
compassionate empathy
challenging your perspectives + perceptions
moving beyond limitations
beginning anew
freedom
negotiating conflict resolution
making amends with/by change
TELLING THE TRUTH
respect for self + others
honor for self + others
generosity
responsibility
PRESENCE
forgiveness
DEMOCRACY
integrity
SEEING
with an original eye
beauty
resilience
stepping UP
vulnerability
courage
empathy
reliability
intimacy
update/reset your life’s script/narrative
heal/thy art of living
living love
rising
RESU RGENCE
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‘BLACK ICE: SWEETLY’
Catherine L. Johnson
2019
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TWO SEPARATE PRISMS/EXPERIENCES OF THE SINGULAR DRAWING
whisper / whispers / whispering
listen
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TOP IMAGE: light is centered and positioned straight on the work
BOTTOM IMAGE: light is dimmed and centered from below the work
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intimate — listening/attending with an open heart and with the open palms of one’s hands — listen to the light — reverence
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4B and 2B GRAPHITE ON BLACK HEAVYWEIGHT MATTE PAPER
19.25” H x 13.75” W
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‘BLINDED BY YOUR GRACE’
Stormzy
2017
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She,
In the dark,
Found light
Brighter than many ever see.
She,
Within herself,
Found loveliness,
Through the soul’s own mastery.
And now the world receives
From her dower:
The message of the strength
Of inner power.
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CONNIE CATES SHELLA
5 September 1954 – 23 January 2019
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AWE woman.
I can see her as a child,
my cousin,
with her
long platinum brown hair falling
below her shoulders,
a quiet regal presence
and
a graceful ballerina demeanor.
Astonishing, to me.
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I knew her
as a woman
who was luminous,
grace,
fierce
in her determination
to
endure,
transcend
and
prevail.
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Her opened heart was
a July ruby bloom,
a maternal warm nest,
a safe hearth.
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Connie,
my “cousin-sister”,
a Queen,
who invited,
welcomed
and
upheld truth-telling,
elegant dignity
and
lived the deep sea courage
of
unfathomable loving,
boundless hope,
with
a heartfire
that shined kind tenderness,
remarkable resilience
and
radiant beauty.
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My cousin’s
soul
spiraled, soared tonight
escaping her knotted coiled body
and,
in her last exhale,
a bright star
was created
in the vault
of
the
night sky.
Wednesday, 23 January 2019
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Thank you, Connie.
You live forever in my heart beat.
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Connie WITH me. 13 July 2015.
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ELEgancE #7 Catherine L. Johnson 2018
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My NEW YEAR’s OFFERING/BLESSING to you:
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The present was an egg
laid by the past
that had the future
inside its shell.
Zora Neale Hurston
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JASPAR OBI
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Jaspar Obi
is my little man,
MY STAND BY ME
on 4legs.
He is my cherished
11 year old English Springer Spaniel.
My constant, faithful and enthusiastic
WING man
to ALL
my outdoor adventures
and
my creative adventures.
Jaspar Obi
is my
fierce/protective lion at my gate
who KNOWS
my code and my embedded passwords
to my
HEARTSOUL
behind my fortress and moat.
He is the entrusted “drawbridge”.
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Jaspar Obi,
as his soul slowly lifts away
from his increasingly frail body,
is now
my mentor/detectivepriest
teaching me without words
about
improvisational LOVE,
the true authentic
sacred dynamic
of
GRACE LOVE:
which OPENS hearts
deeper and wider
that WELCOMES uncertainty
as discovery, exciting,
and
is
the testament/practice
of
REAL freedom .
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This voyage
of
GRACE LOVE
is
NOT
for fearful pale hearts
who do
NOT
have the capacity to
“sacred listen” ,
nor the s/hero’s STRENGTH + willingness
to
enter the unknown
and
who do
NOT
access/activate their own internal
“divining rod”.
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The
choice
to be
a truth seeker
is to
drop the dense slippery veils of denial
– continuously with determination/strength,
is to
stay resolved to learn/know
what they may not want to learn.
and
is the
strength + willingness to navigate
the turbulent, starless, fathomless seas
of
concealment
and
uncertainty
in the
requisite
vision quests.
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GRACE LOVE
IS
OPENDEEP WIDE
IMPROVISATIONAL SOARING
BRILLIANTRADICAL HOPE
UNFURLING
COURAGE
BLISS
ACTION!
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GRACE LOVE
becomes
A CONSCIOUS CHOICE
directed by the
“divining rod”
of
YOUR
TREASURE HEART.
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Those who choose
to
LIVE LOVE
as
BOUNDLESS INFINITE LIGHT
through
darkness and uncertainty
LIVE BEAUTY;
LIVE TRUTH;
LIVE COURAGE;
LIVE STRENGTH;
LIVE RADICAL HOPE;
LIVE BLOOMING GARDENS of BEAUTY;
LIVE KINDNESS;
LIVE DIGNITY;
LIVE HONESTY;
LIVE VULNERABILITY;
LIVE the ART of LOVING.
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Love is difficult
– yet,
loving is an unfurling blessed revelation of joy
loving is a relational messy verb
– a wild A/LIVE river.
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GRACE LOVE
is not a possession,
is not a commodity,
is not a barter,
nor an arrangement of convenience
that controls or can be controlled.
It is a breath gift of immeasurable value to your heartsoul.
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GRACE LOVE
loving is not falling
– it is riSING to SEE
and
willing to be SEEN!
A decision.
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GRACE LOVE
is calling out an expedition,
a call out adventure to be ALL the things…
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The
revelation and response
of
GRACE LOVE’s
CALL
is
to cross the threshold
and
ENTER
an
intimate dance
with/for a treasured beloved
into
WONDER + AWE!
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To LIVE
GRACE LOVE
is
WONDER + AWE!
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GRACE LOVE
is a testament,
a breathing LIVING template
of the
coUrage, STRENGTH + capacity
to
break open.
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GRACE LOVE
is a hymn of the sublime
and
KNOWING
love
is
boundless, creative,
authentic STRONG
when
the hurricane lamp guide
is:
“We will figure it out”,
“I see YOU”
and
“Yes,
life is amaZING GRACE”
IS
the
VITAL / DYNAMIC dialectic
of
Y/OUR
awareness;
that listening to silence is hearing
and
KNOWING
the story
of
your choices
and
awakenings
and
relationships
is
YOUR life.
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Yes,
KNOWING
YOU
are the gardener,
the pilot,
the flight,
the belief,
the practice of RADICAL hope without a map
and
WITH
ONLY
the light in the DARK sTar nights
to guide you
into
the unknown, open, bountiful
fields
of
GRACE LOVE.
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DARK sTar #3 Catherine L. Johnson 2018
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Your
story
is
which relationships
you chose/choose
to nourish/nurture/dance
WITH
and
you
cherished
as
unrepeatable, sacred
irreplaceable
DISCOVERY ADVENTURE
treasures
– a synergistic fit of goodness to each + all.
Your story
is also
the choices of your exits,
your letting go of relationships
that are no longer respectful or honorable or truthful
of
you AND/OR them.
To live lies is to steal/extinguish light.
Cruel theft.
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Choosing
heal/thy
IS
I / ThOU.
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The Cottor family KNOWS
GRACE LOVE
the active choice to move forward ,
to go WITH the beloved,
to go beyond:
conventional wisdom, boundaries, expectations.
My cousins, Holly and Jonathan Cottor ,
KNOW + LIVE GRACE LOVE.
My Uncle Bob and Aunt Sharon Cottor
KNOW + LIVE GRACE LOVE.
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Improvisational creative geniuses
KNOW + LIVE GRACE LOVE !
They MUST
because
they cannot deceive/lie
to
themselves.
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To choose
RiSING
RESU RGENCE
is
to go waaaay
beyond
conventional wisdom
and
to have faith that you do
taste/touch/see
the Dark sTar
within
LIGHT.
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Pioneers .
Hurricane LAMPS.
Mavericks.
INNOVATORS.
CREATORS of NEW optics
to SEE ANEW.
BOUNDLESS.
FREEDOM BLUEPRINTS.
OPPORTUNITIES which SPARK.
Crescendos of POSSIBILITIES.
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The
TRUTH SEEKER’s
choice
is a
“I MUST KNOW”!
I will enter
the unknown/the unnamed
so I can
discover
and,
in turn,
become a guide.
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You KNOW
when YOU
make/made t hat transforming
LIVE LIFE
choice.
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You can
ONLY
move forward
once
you choose,
with actions,
the momentous life-defining
call
of
GRACE LOVE.
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NO backwards step
once
YOU
FEEL
the aWAK E ning.
WOK E.
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The
FREEDOM
of
LIVING
GRACE LOVE
is the design,
flight and blissful confidence
of the
alchemy story
of the
PHOENIX!
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Fear is a now a forever slayed dragon.
You learned what/who to listen to
– you can no longer can be taken hostage.
You feel your own heart beat, heart blood and breath.
You know WHO to seek
– those relationships
who SEE YOU
in/with
GRACE LOVE.
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YOU
are now
the
victor/leader
of the
dynamic relational template
of
dignity,
radiance
and
peace.
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YES!
YOU .
YES!
ME.
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JASPAR , variation of Caspar, meaning TREASURE in Persian.
Caspar was one of the Magi, reigning from Persia,
who followed the Star of Bethlehem brought frankincense.
OBI is an African name which means HEART .
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SIMPLE AWE + SIMPLE WONDER #3 Catherine L. Johnson 2018
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SIMPLE AWE
SIMPLE WONDER
RADICAL HOPE
YES!
amaZING GRACE
NEW BREED LEADERS
RESU RGENCE
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