Lens of the Heart
Pamela Holmes
Art Making as Training for Death
Glimpses into the Vastness
It’s not that you attain the goal, but that all the light in the universe, falling toward you forever, finally arrives in your body. Excerpt from Another Cup, Savor Eternity One Moment at a Time Alfred K. Lamotte
Courting the Imaginal
Sweep Clean the chambers of the heart. We glimpse into the vastness of other realities by observing, our inner terrain to allow ourselves to be available for what the imaginal wishes to express. We listen and see the image and…
Slowly Slowly
Esso Esso The times are urgent; let us slow down. African saying As we listen to our bodies, our inner life, and to process the world at large, we move into a quiet, hidden, protected space to allow our vulnerablities…
LONGING
Our Bodies are a Visual Resource
I just completed a series of classes with a group of young lovely woman. We worked with learning to see our bodies as an embodiment of presences that teem with life. The body is an endless resource of imaginative possibilities.…
Becoming Salt
We as humans enter the sea and found we were invisible, dissolved, as we became like salt. Reduced but not destroyed. Absorbed in pure fluidity. Great movement in the sea churns and spews us on this hard solid surface. We…
Yorro Yorro
Here’s from Yorro Yorro Everything Standing Up Alive. page 53 by David Mowaljarlai and Jutta Malnic Elder Mowaljarlai quote “You have a feeling in your heart that you’re going to feed your body this day, get more knowledge. You go out…
Our Hands Perception
Our hands have their own cognition. We hold our hand’s palm to palm. We sense the sensations that move in our hands and possibly send signals throughout us. Images may surface, or our hand may lead us because we focus…
Sinking and Falling
Children see magic because they look for it. Children use their bodies to explore the world. They learn to become sensitive by rolling down hills, jumping up and down, twirling, swinging. hanging upside down, laying on the ground and seeing…
Play and Celebrating the Relief
This week I spent time with each member of our experimental group. I gathered a key word or feeling from each member to put together this prompt. Here it is. The fool hands you a magic box. In the box…