#909 + 9 March 2020 + GOLDEN RULE: “Do unto others as YOU would have them do unto YOU.” + ‘SPARROW’ 2010 Catherine L. Johnson + ‘BREATH’ 1997 Catherine L. Johnson

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Golden Rule

sweet knows sweet hearts

The Golden Rule is the principle of treating others as you want to be treated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule

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Buddhism

“Just as I am so are they, just as they are so am I.”

“Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.”

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SPARROW: SING SING SING                                                                        Catherine L. Johnson  2010

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SPARROW

series

2010

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Please click on the links below for further exploration:

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2014/11/12/sparrow-fly-my-heart-free-catherine-l-johnson-2010-deafening-despair-call-and-response-the-sparrow-is-a-symbol-of-the-beloved/

http://www.bebopified.com/2010/09/rene-marie-sings-truth-at-dakota.html

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BREATH I                                                                                                     Catherine L. Johnson   1997

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BREATH

series

1997

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Please click on the links below for further exploration:

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2016/12/04/694-breath-1997-catherine-l-johnson-energy-vibration-breakthroughs-revolutions-when-i-was-5-the-archangel-gabriel-visited-me-at-4-am-yahweh/

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2016/09/23/breath-1997-icanfeel-2015-goldbirdsong-2016-telling-the-truth-slowly/

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#755 + MAKE AMERICA CIVIL AGAIN! + SIX STEPS/PRACTICES! + “YESSSS! WE CAN!” + THE HUMANITY PORTFOLIO 2013 and ICANFEELYOUR series 2015 and GRACE series 2017

PLEASE CLICK ON THE PAINTINGS TO ENLARGE AND FOR DETAIL.

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THE ORIGINAL PAINTINGS ARE FROM:

THE HUMANITY PORTFOLIO 2013  

+

ICANFEELYOUR series 2015

+

GRACE series 2017.

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FRESHDRIEDBLOODIAMHUMAN                                               Catherine L. Johnson 2013

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SIX

STEPS/PRACTICES

to MAKE America

more

CIVIL

AGAIN

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Rising hostility among competing political factions has spread to the general public in ways that will limit the success of any program arising from any political persuasion. 

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By Doug R. Berdie

Published in Star Tribune 29 September 2017

 

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Can America be better? Of course. We should strive for more and better jobs, “better” and more affordable health care and coverage, “fairer” taxes, a more reasonable immigration policy, and much more.

However, defining and implementing concrete policies to promote these large objectives has been difficult. The policy ideas offered by our current political leaders have been perceived as largely partisan and lacking input from those outside the power structure.

One effect of this style of governing has been rising hostility among competing political factions. And that hostility has spread to the general public in ways that will limit the success of any program arising from any political persuasion. For any chance at real progress, we first need a renewed focus on civility.

Despite all our differences on policy and philosophy, we may be able to find common ground on making America more civil. The challenge is that many of us seldom even speak to those who vote differently. That must change.

Mere mildness will not do. To be great again — or, if you prefer, greater than it already is — America will require of its citizens a major effort to behave more courteously and considerately.

Here are six steps each of us can take to make living in America more pleasant — and, as a byproduct, to facilitate achieving other goals we desire.

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 1. Become more aware of other people.

People often seem oblivious to the presence of others in their space. Shoppers leave their carts in the middle of the supermarket aisle, often at an angle that effectively blocks anyone from passing, while wandering off to retrieve items from distant shelves. Sometimes they just stop in the middle of an aisle to carry on a phone conversation or to check text messages. People wearing large backpacks often swing about with no concern about knocking into others.

Those inconvenienced by these and other small, inconsiderate acts become a little more irritable and shorter-tempered every day.

The obsession with being on one’s mobile device at all times makes being aware of others almost impossible. Little eye contact occurs, and ear buds in public complete one’s isolation.

Becoming better aware of where we are, what we are doing and who is being affected not only makes our presence more agreeable for those around us, but also makes us more mindful of living in the real world.

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2. Do a good deed every day.

One wonderful Boy Scout (my add: Girl Scout – CLJ)  teaching is to do one good deed each day. Good deeds leave everyone feeling better — the deed doer even more than the recipient. Think about it. If one does this, it adds up to a minimum of 365 good deeds each year. And if each of the 400,000-some Minneapolis residents did one good deed per day, that would total more than 146 million good deeds each year.

If we all strove for that goal — if any meaningful number of us did — it would make a difference.

Do your good deed early in the day. It will allow for opportunities to do “bonus good deeds.”

Being the first in a crowd to do a good deed makes it easier for others to follow. Ever notice how, when one driver allows another to change lanes in the “zipper” style, many others behind tend to follow that behavior? Both the driver who allows the lane change and the driver who is given an opportunity to change lanes feel better and experience a fleeting bright moment.

Such moments add up.

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3. Clean up your language.

It once was an unspoken social rule that well-mannered people did not use profanity in public. The result was that common spaces were more civilized and more pleasant to occupy.

This is not to say profanity is never justified — strong language has its place. But it should be reserved for instances when its infrequency accentuates a point. When used in every other sentence, curse words serve no purpose but to convey crassness.

And when used loudly in public, such vulgarity coarsens the general social atmosphere and makes everyone less comfortable, the way a persistent bad odor does.

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4. Give others the benefit of the doubt.

Especially now, after last year’s bruising election, many believe that those who did not vote as they did must have no redeeming qualities.

Let’s assume everyone (regardless of their politics) has good traits and deserves to be treated civilly.

If one steps back and resists the temptation to “talk politics” — and, rather, converses about how people actually spend their time — it becomes obvious that we all share much in common — even with those who think and vote differently.

Engaging others of all types can only promote civility, whereas systematically “shutting out” part of society will have the opposite effect.

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5. Change the world right where you are.

Many sincere people advocate passionately for large global causes (equal rights for all humanity, an end to war around the world, helping all people who are disadvantaged, persuading everyone to work on reducing global warming, getting everyone to eat healthier diets, exercise more, etc.).

Yet some who ardently champion these vast worldwide goals seem to do little to help, or merely to treat courteously, real individual people they actually encounter in daily life. A physician who once spoke at our church and who had been in Haiti after a huge hurricane was asked, “How can you help all those people when there are so many of them and so few of you?”

The answer was: “One person at a time.”

That’s a great perspective to remember in one’s daily life — in an era when so much focus is on the “big” issues that one can lose sight of the individuals whose needs and feelings one really does affect, for good or for ill, nearly every day.

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6. Leave your surroundings better than you found them.

It once was a camper’s credo to “always leave the space better than you found it.” This did not merely mean cleaning up your own mess. It also meant finding some other mess that a less thoughtful camper had not cleaned up — and taking care of that, too.

This precept should be applied to life in general — not just to camping. And it should apply to nonphysical “messes,” too — such as neglected (my add:  neglected emotional and relational realities) tasks and other problems at work, home, etc., etc.

Do more than your fair share. You’ll be surprised how good it feels.

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It would be easy to make America more civil.

All it would take is a commitment from each of us to focus on being more civil.

 

The results would make everyone’s life more enjoyable, would help bridge political animosities and would bring us all together to accomplish positive things. It can start today.

Even if you aren’t up to tackling the whole six-point agenda, pick one or two items that you don’t focus on now, and give them a try. You’ll feel better, and happier, and America will be just a little bit greater.

Doug R. Berdie, of Minneapolis, is a semiretired marketing executive and researcher.

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WHITEWASHING                                                                                 Catherine L. Johnson 2013

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EXODUSIAMFREEATLASTIAINTGOINGBACK                        Catherine L. Johnson 2013

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ICANFEELYOUR  triptych                                                           Catherine L. Johnson 2015

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GRACE #1                                                                                           Catherine L. Johnson  2017

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Souls are STUNNED

by the absence

of humanity

and

civility.

We are cheated and deceived by the fraudulent,  false FB/Twitter lives

that people create for their “audience”.

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Showing UP with empathy

and

awareness

IS

living

an authentic and bountiful real life.

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Yes, it is a risk to enter the realm of living – the uncertainties of the unknown!

Yet, one ONLY blooooms by loving and being loved with integrity.

Oh, the adventure of LIVING

is to BECOME/ WELCOME

ALL the things YOU are!

LIFE can breathe and RISE with the LIGHTHOPE of civility.

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SERENITY PRAYER

 

Catherine L. Johnson

1 October 2017

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#694 + BREATH 1997 CATHERINE L. JOHNSON + ENERGY / VIBRATION + BREAKTHROUGHS / R/EVOLUTIONS + “When I was 5 the Archangel Gabriel visited me at 4 am…” + Yahweh

PLEASE CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:

http://www.mnartists.org/artwork/breath-1997-three-views-dynamicshifting-ambient-light

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ONE PAINTING

BREATH   1997   Catherine L. Johnson 

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Everything created is energy.

Energy vibrates at different levels.

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Just as a singer has a vocal range that moves

from lowest to highest,

each individual human has their own vibrational range.

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Every human moves up and down a vibrational scale.

The more one works on loving oneself,

the higher their vibration rises.

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Everyone is born with a different vibrational scale.

Everyone possesses the ability to reach the highest level

through

APPRECIATION;

forgiveness;

JOY;

meditation

and

LOVE.

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If one wishes to connect to higher vibrational beings,

one simply raises their own personal vibration.

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The universal Law of Attraction states

that like energy attracts like energy.

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The more one stays in a higher, lighter, clearer vibration,

the more one will connect with the spiritual realm.

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Deceased loved ones who have transitioned;

died;

dropped their bodies and released

the dense energy of their physical bodies

move up the vibrational scale.

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Deceased loved ones can become Spirit Guides

upon leaving their physical bodies.

Spirit Guides choose to become teachers

and

guide those of us still in the physical realm.

They offer guidance, comfort, and, at times, warnings and protection.

Spirit Guides are the spiritual essence of deceased loved ones.

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Each physical being, I believe, is supported by a Guardian Angel

throughout his/her

entire physical life,

from birth to death.

A Guardian Angel’s job

is to unconditionally love

and

protect us.

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 Everyone reaches a point in their lives,

 a crossroad,

where one recognizes

and

is confronted

with the immutable fact

that the responsibility

for one’s lives

is

their

own.

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Of course, denial  and fear

is a counter force of this epiphanic

emotional/spiritual breakthrough.

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One who chooses denial and fear

imprisons/freezes their own vibrational range.

Truth-telling and courage yields internal  breakthroughs,

a R/EVOLUTION occurs

and

one casts off  false security,

what was habit

and,

in time,

one lives in dynamic integrity

and,

now,

 their sonic energy vibrates like a Stradivarius

violin,

viola,

cello.

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The  Stradivarius  stringed instruments

– vehicles of the heartspiritsoul of humanity-

were created

after intensive/dedicated experimentation

of physical materials

and

inspired by Antonio Stradivarius’  own musical

 “listening” skills of his own sonic expressive genius.

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The instruments provided gifted musicians,

in relationship with their instrument,

the capacity to create the sonics

of unparalleled sublime beauty.

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 The intimate relationship of the  musician/genius

to their  genius/stringed instrument 

can enact

the inchoate to the ripened emotions

of living a life.

The sonics  brought forth

mirror the delicate, robust, layered

constellation /range

 of the heartspiritsoul’s wordless

 universal language of LIVING a life.

The sonics produced, of course,

are  in proportion

to the  individual musician’s capacity

to live/ know passion

and

to welcome  the VERY life of life.

It is all relational- in relationship.

The relationship of  the individual’s capacity to an instrument/vehicle

is a profound equation.

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Does the instrument make the musician sing

or

does the musician make the instrument sing?

Or, is it an ongoing  dialectic/dynamic of 

letting go

and

seeking beauty

 with the capacity to  welcome/invite, 

enter and create profound

breakthroughs and r/evolutions

as one’s divining rod?

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Love is courage/ Courage is love. 

Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “To be or not to be” is the ultimate question.

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It is the choices, recognition and the courage/couer

of the individual

to construct the reality

so as to play/dance

with a willing, capable vehicle

which, in relationship,

can express the  most profound,

precious and infinite vibrational scales

of  joy to/and sorrow.

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This truth,  this awareness and internal epiphany,

with the selection process a musician chooses

as their instrument/ their vehicle,

transfers equally into individuals’  choices 

of who to love and be loved by.

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Each relationship is a call and response,

a spiritual, a gospel,

a freedom fighter song of rising and constantly becoming

– or not.

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The Master arrives at one’s crossroads.

The choice to embrace or turn away is the trajectory of one’s life.

The story of your life becomes your life.

The more significant a relationship is to self

and

to another is based

on truth-telling

– slowly, suddenly,

and 

always in that direction of telling the truth creates

authentic intimacy

– a sonic vibration that is visceral and palpable.

The dedication to truth-telling creates

a boundless field of freedom

and

is the very testament of love

as a verb.

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One can “FEEL” the vibration

of another’s

freedom, integrity and authenticity.

It is a sonic fusion of an improvisational

lullaby/hymn/gospel Hallelujah song.

Fluid.

Moves and breathes like a cascading waterfall and a pure river:

JOY.

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“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”

Abraham Lincoln

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No one has no control over anything or anyone but oneself.

With that emotional/spiritual  breakthrough and r/evolution,

an awareness becomes luminous:

 God is in everyone and everything.

God is love.

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God is simply the energy of love,

and

authentic love

is

 boundless;

infinitely beautiful;

radiant

and

free.

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I was 5 years old.

I was home from the hospital, briefly,

with both legs entombed in plaster casts.

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I had lived in the hospital

from the time I was six months old,

an infant,

until I was 3 years,

a toddler.

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From 3 years old until I was 10 years old,

I would go back into the hospital

and, briefly,

 back to my family’s home.

Repeat.

Repeat,

Repeat.

Repeat until I was 10 years old.

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“All of my life I have known an inviolable

place of inner freedom containing:

Earth; pieces of washed clear blue skies;

brilliant unfolding blooms; wings of flight; 

the color and arcs of rainbows;

the hallelujah chorus of wind, rain and rivers;

and

the white glistened silence of ice.”

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Catherine L. Johnson / ARTIST

 

 

 

 

Patients were horizontal breathing beds

and

communicated without words.

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Physical suffering swallows the effort of making words emerge.

The crucible of pain honed “listening”

as a vehicle of communication

– not hearing, the physical function,

but,

“listening”

as a vehicle/divining rod of truth

of another’s water.

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Each patient was a whorl of energy as is the breath of life.

We communicated to each other with our body’s energy.

The attending nurse would “hear” silence.

We would be in a choir of  gentle, rhythmic vibration of:

lullabies, hymns and gospel songs

to comfort,  

sustain  

and

give light to one another.

It was a  beautiful hum.

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As a child in the hospital,

I could feel when death was coming.  

I could feel the soul’s energy rising

and

the sonic release from the body’s captivity.

It was quiet and luminous and sacred.

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I was 5 years old.

I was home from the hospital, briefly,

with both legs entombed in plaster casts.

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I was in a bed next to my sister.

My wood crutches with their foam handles leaned against my bed.

I could hear the sleeping breath of my beloved, older sister.

The room was dark.

I could see the  hazy light of the streetlights through the closed curtains.

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I could plan my dreams when I became a sentient being.

I planned  nightly adventures of flying.

I was fully awake in my dreams

– all my senses were honed

instruments/receptors of life.

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In this dark room,

with only the sound of my sister’s breathing,

a sudden flood of intensely brilliant, radiating light

fell

at the end of my bed.

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Slowly,

the brilliance softened to a glow.

I could see two angels.

One with wide majestic wings and the other with wings of a sparrow.

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The one with the dazzling wide majestic wings

communicated to me

– no words,

simply energy and vibration.

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The angel told me that the presence I was

sensing/ witnessing is that of the Archangel Gabriel.

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The other angel with the sparrow wings’s

was a scribe and a photographer.

I could see the upright feathered pen in the angel’s hand 

 was held above a large shining book

on a book stand.

I could see the folded up camera equipment beside the bookstand.

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Archangel Gabriel communicated to me

that they were there

to write my name down in the book

and

take my photograph.

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Time was not scientific.

I could not say how long they were there at the end of my bed.

It felt warm and beautiful like a ballroom illuminated

with candle lit chandeliers.

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I did not feel the weight of my  plaster casts.

I was floating WITH them, weightless,

in simpatico,

 and in

empathetic resonance.

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I could hear the scrawl of my name being written down:

Catherine Louise Johnson.

I knew the handwriting was florid, and I loved that fact.

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Then there was a burst of exploding light

and, my picture was taken.

I knew I blinked and my mouth was open in the photograph.

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Suddenly,

the Archangel Gabriel and the angel with the sparrow wings vanished.

The previous darkness filled the room with its weight.

My legs were entombed again in heavy plaster casts.

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I needed to ask my sister IF she witnessed

what had just occurred in our shared bedroom.

I could hear the same rhythm of her sleeping breath.

She did not see.

I knew this.

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I immediately decided I must tell my Mom and Daddy.

(My Daddy would be dead – killed in a car accident – the next year.

Decapitated. ) 

I pulled my heavy,  plaster-casted legs

over the side of the bed

and

placed my crutches under my arms.

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My arms were strong, powerful and could lift all the weight below.

I was fast on crutches- “faster than a speeding bullet”. 

I swung my body into my parents’ room.

I announced to my Mother and Daddy

– in words ( I would express in words with my family) –

that the Archangel Gabriel had visited me,

my name was in a large shining book

and

my photograph was taken.

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They both sat up and looked stunned.

I usually did not talk often: use words.

I always had “listened” and observed.

Quiet to them, but not to me.

I “listened” to them and to the silver horn within me.

Vibrations emanating from their bodies.

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A decade less than a half a century passed,

when I found my Mother’s dead body in her bed.

I entered her room and felt an aura of gold energy.

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Her dogs were all asleep on her bed.

I could discern their breath, but not hers.

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Her hand was turned with her palm up.

Her blue eyes were open  

and

her head was turned towards her window.

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The curtain was open.

She had been looking at the birds

on the  tall bird feeder I had mounted in the ground

outside her window.

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My Mother’s body was warm.

I tried to breathe life back into my Mother’s body.

My breath was met with her lung’s water.

I prayed for strength and grace

as I knew I would shatter the hearts

of my brothers and sisters.

The children who I thought were as tiny

as the black and white pictures

I was shown of them while in the hospital.

They were miracles to me in the flesh.

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Weeks after my Mother’s funeral,

I called the presiding minister on the telephone.

I asked if he would kindly visit my studio and he said yes.

Speech, words, were stolen again, from me.

The crucible of the pain of grief summoned

my first language of energy and vibration.

I had become an artist as I knew I would be.

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All I could do, in grief,  was create- draw and paint-

– my  silent vehicle of transformation and transcendence.

The minister came and looked at my work.

He was silent in his gaze.

He moved back and forth,

closer and then further away

as the gold  paint on the  dawn’s morning yellow

 shifted from brilliance to silence.

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Time passed slowly as I watched him

look at and “listen” to my paintings.

I “listened” to  the sound of reverence in his gaze.

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He told me I captured

what he has seen,

over and over again,

when the soul leaves the body

of his dying parishioners.

A rising of  luminous energy.

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He told me that in Hebrew the word for God is Yahweh.

He then  said very slowly:

“Yahweh means breath

and

how the word is spoken is like breathing

-inhale and exhale.

You have created BREATH paintings.”

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ICANFEEL: YOUR WINGS 2015 + ICANFEEL: YOUR SKIN 2015 + ICANFEEL: YOUR SOUL 2015 = TRIPYCH + CATHERINE L. JOHNSON / ARTIST

         ICANFEEL triptych               Catherine L. Johnson  2015

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PLEASE CLICK TWICE ON IMAGE  TO ENLARGE

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EACH INDIVIDUAL PANEL MEASURES 3.5″ H x 18″ W

THE GOLDEN RULE/ I and THOU.

Note: each set and the sequence,  from the top to the middle to the bottom,

becomes increasingly golden and reveals an intimate witnessing/empathy.

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http://www.mnartists.org/artwork/icanfeel-your-wings-2015-ithouempathy

http://www.mnartists.org/artwork/icanfeel-your-skin-2015-ithouempathy

http://www.mnartists.org/artwork/icanfeel-your-soul-2015-ithou-empathy

ICANFEEL triptych 2015

https://www.instagram.com/p/_KqBxBlYsz/

is featured in the

HUMANLY POSSIBLE: THE EMPATHY EXHIBITION

INSTINCT ART GALLERY, MINNEAPOLIS

 

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INSTINCT ART GALLERY

21 NOVEMBER 2015 – 16 JANUARY 2016

Tuesdays- Saturdays: 12 Noon – 5 pm

CLOSED: 25 DECEMBER 2015 – 1 JANUARY 2016

Private viewing appointments are available 23, 24 & 26 December.

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15 NOVEMBER 2015 + LOWERTOWN ST. PAUL ARTISTS STAND WITH FRANCE: Liberté / égalité / fraternité! + VICKIE BURGETT / LIGHTING DESIGNER

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LOWERTOWN ST. PAUL ARTISTS STAND WITH FRANCE!

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Liberté + égalité + fraternité!

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ON 14 NOVEMBER NIGHT, VICKIE BURGETT, LIGHTING DESIGNER AND FRIEND,

AND I MET ON WABASHA STREET.

I HAD JUST BEEN TO THE “INK SPOT”,

 A ONE OF A KIND PRINTING PLACE FOR ARTISTS/DESIGNERS,

I WAS PURSUING  THE IDEA TO ORGANIZE A “PRINTING”

-LOWERTOWN ARTISTS CREATING POSTERS FOR THE PUBLIC TO SIGN,

AFFIXED TO THE SHOP’S WINDOWS,

AS A TESTAMENT OF OUR SOLIDARITY WITH PARIS,

FOR FRANCE.

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VICKIE + I WERE IN DIALOGUE ABOUT THE NEED FOR OUR CITY,

THE CAPITOL CITY,

TO SHOW SOLIDARITY WITH FRANCE AFTER THE TERRORIST ATTACKS IN PARIS.

VICKIE AGREED.

SHE HAD JUST FINISHED COMPOSING THE LIGHTING AT THE AMSTERDAM FOR A CLASSICAL VIOLINIST.

 WE TALKED ABOUT HOW THE UPCOMING MULTI-MEDIA EXHIBIT

“HUMANLY POSSIBLE: THE EMPATHY EXHIBITION” @ INSTINCT ART GALLERY, 

http://www.instinctmpls.com/upcoming/

WHERE SEVERAL OF MY WORKS CREATED FROM 2005 TO PRESENT WILL BE FEATURED,

HAS BECOME MORE RELEVANT AND HAS GREATER CURRENCY/IMPACT

IN CONTEXT OF THE HORROR OF PARIS THE NIGHT BEFORE:

EMPATHY-HUMANLY POSSIBLE.

 

 

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TONIGHT, I WALKED BACK TO MY LOFT,

AND, VICKIE  HAD CREATED A POIGNANT + POWERFUL LIGHT INSTALLATION

ON OUR BUILDING, THE NORTHERN WAREHOUSE, 308 PRINCE STREET, ST. PAUL.

SHOWN ABOVE.

THE COUER/COURAGE BRILLIANT COLORS OF FRANCE EMBLAZONED

ON OUR HARBOR OF CREATIVITY.

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I  IMMEDIATELY CALLED HER AND ASKED: YOU?!

SHE ANSWERED: YES!

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IT WAS UP FOR ONLY A FEW HOURS

– BEAUTY, LIKE TRAGEDY, CAN OCCUR IN MOMENTS -AND, ITS MARK IS FOREVER.

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THE ENERGY OF SOLIDARITY WAS MADE CLEAR!

 

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THANK YOU VICKIE!

VIVA LA FRANCE!

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HUMANLY POSSIBLE: THE EMPATHY EXHIBITION  @ INSTINCT

is relevant and its currency

has risen exponentially due to the horrific murders in Paris.

Fear/hate devours our humanity.

The killings triggered an ocean of solidarity, empathy, and calls for accountability

—but, also triggers the risk of an unreasoned backlash that will compound the tragedy

– suffered by Paris, Beirut and any human who is deemed not human and murdered.

Hate cannot defeat hate. 

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Photograph taken @ 9 pm with my Samsung 6 smartphone.

 

 

 

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“ICANFEEL” + HEART + LEAD ON BLACK/LEAD ON GOLD + 2015 + CATHERINE L. JOHNSON

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ICANFEEL  #2

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“I/Thou”

– the sacred/humane practice of the Golden Rule is

EMPATHY

which counters WE v the “OTHER”.

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PLEASE CLICK TWICE ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE

 

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINKS BELOW:

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2015/07/16/icanfeel-skin-lead-on-blacklead-on-gold-2015-catherine-l-johnson/

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2015/07/16/icanfeel-wings-lead-on-blacklead-on-gold-2015-catherine-l-johnson/

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2015/07/10/icanfeel-wounds-lead-on-blacklead-on-gold-2015-catherine-l-johnson/

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2015/07/10/icanfeel-eyes-lead-on-blacklead-on-gold-2015-catherine-l-johnson/

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2015/07/09/icanfeel-silence-white-on-blacklead-on-gold-2015-catherine-l-johnson/

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

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“ICANFEEL” + SPIRIT + LEAD ON BLACK/LEAD ON GOLD + 2015 + CATHERINE L. JOHNSON

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ICANFEEL  #7

“I/Thou”- the sacred/humane practice of the Golden Rule is EMPATHY

which counters WE v the “OTHER”.

PLEASE CLICK TWICE ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE

 

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2015/07/16/icanfeel-skin-lead-on-blacklead-on-gold-2015-catherine-l-johnson/

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2015/07/16/icanfeel-wings-lead-on-blacklead-on-gold-2015-catherine-l-johnson/

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2015/07/10/icanfeel-wounds-lead-on-blacklead-on-gold-2015-catherine-l-johnson/

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2015/07/10/icanfeel-eyes-lead-on-blacklead-on-gold-2015-catherine-l-johnson/

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2015/07/09/icanfeel-silence-white-on-blacklead-on-gold-2015-catherine-l-johnson/

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

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“ICANFEEL” + SKIN + LEAD ON BLACK/LEAD ON GOLD + 2015 + CATHERINE L. JOHNSON

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ICANFEEL  #5

“I/Thou”- the sacred/humane practice of the Golden Rule is EMPATHY

which counters WE v the “OTHER”.

PLEASE CLICK TWICE ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE

 

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2015/07/16/icanfeel-wings-lead-on-blacklead-on-gold-2015-catherine-l-johnson/

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2015/07/10/icanfeel-wounds-lead-on-blacklead-on-gold-2015-catherine-l-johnson/

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2015/07/10/icanfeel-eyes-lead-on-blacklead-on-gold-2015-catherine-l-johnson/

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2015/07/09/icanfeel-silence-white-on-blacklead-on-gold-2015-catherine-l-johnson/

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

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“ICANFEEL” + WINGS + LEAD ON BLACK/LEAD ON GOLD + 2015 + CATHERINE L. JOHNSON

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ICANFEEL  #1

“I/Thou”- the sacred/humane practice of the Golden Rule is EMPATHY

which counters WE v the “OTHER”.

PLEASE CLICK TWICE ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE

 

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2015/07/10/icanfeel-wounds-lead-on-blacklead-on-gold-2015-catherine-l-johnson/

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2015/07/10/icanfeel-eyes-lead-on-blacklead-on-gold-2015-catherine-l-johnson/

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2015/07/09/icanfeel-silence-white-on-blacklead-on-gold-2015-catherine-l-johnson/

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

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“ICANFEEL” + WOUNDS’ + LEAD ON BLACK/LEAD ON GOLD + 2015 + CATHERINE L. JOHNSON

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ICANFEEL  #11 

“I/Thou”- the sacred/humane practice of the Golden Rule is EMPATHY

which counters WE v the “OTHER”.

PLEASE CLICK TWICE ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE

 

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2015/07/10/icanfeel-eyes-lead-on-blacklead-on-gold-2015-catherine-l-johnson/

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2015/07/09/icanfeel-silence-white-on-blacklead-on-gold-2015-catherine-l-johnson/

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

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