Laurkat


Profile

Laurkat
Age: 42
City: Jasper
Country: United States
Joined: Apr 2008

I’m a writer, teacher, and novice photographer living in the mountains of rural north Georgia.
I’m an old soul in love with paradox, addicted to the promises of connection and the restorative space of solitude, sweet on the generative power of conversation and the kindness of time alone.
I’m a traveler, a cat person, a seer of smallness, and a watcher of hawks and herons.
I’m a lover of silence, voice, story, trees, good food and cooking it, the poetry of Mary Oliver, Emily Dickinson, Pablo Neruda, Walt Whitman, and Jane Hirshfield, and a wide spectrum of music and film.
I’m still learning how to see, how to understand and listen to words and the spaces in between them and how to let light and shadow show up in interesting ways for other people with my help.
You can read my blog if you’re of a mind to at http://laurkat.gaia.com/.
You can also e-mail me direct at lksorrells@hotmail.com.
Peace,
Laura

(Though I’m not a professional, I still feel like I need to say this: Any reproduction, modification, publication, transmission, transfer, or exploitation of any of the content, for personal or commercial use, whether in whole or in part, without written permission from myself is prohibited. All rights reserved. Thank you for viewing my work.)

Groups

Laurkat is a member of !* Dark Cabaret *!, All Things Orange Artwork Gallery, Complex Simplicity of Art, Yellow Gallery, ! Inspired Art !, 1 In The Beginning - Ancient Practices, 1:1 Macro Photography (Limit: 2 posts per 24 hour period), Abstract Realism, Abstracts from Nature, Adjacent Flames, All the Colors of the Rainbow, All Things Poetic, Artistic, Philosophical, Alternative Christmas Images, Amazing Graves, Architectural Photography, Art from the Workplace, Art in Math, Art Inspired by Dreams, As Is, Back In Black ( sorry~NO PHOTOGRAPHY), Beach Art, Bee & Wasp Passions, Beginner's Expressions, Birds and Creatures of Flight, Bits and Pieces, Bridges, Buddha, Butterflies, Skippers, Moths, & Other Winged Insects (2 a Day), Candid Photography ( 1/24 ) , Capturing Emotion, Cars, Motorbikes and Motorsports, Childhood, Classic Cars Worldwide, Colour Me Vibrant Red!, Communities (NO SUNSETS OR SUNRISES OR CLOSEUPS OF PERSONS, PLACES OR THINGS!!), Compassion, Courage & Friendship, Construction and Demolished, Country Bumpkin, Cutest of the Cute, DaDa Land, Dawn and Dusk Light [No Sun], Dilapidated Buildings, Domestic Art - [2/24, NO PEOPLE, PETS, or FLOWERS. INSIDE shots only.], Dragonflies, Eerie Lighting, End Times, Equine Art and Photography, Everyday Life, Everything Winter, Fabulous Flowers, Falling Leaves, Farms and Countryside, Feet First, Flowers in macro, Food for Thought, For the Love of Cats , 1 image a day , Forests, Freedom to Shine, Fungilicious, Green!, History, Human and Nature, In the Pink 50% pink, Insects, Bugs and Creepy Crawlies (2 A Day), Kairos, Light and Reflection 1/24, Live, Love, Dream: , Love & Romance , Macro Untouched. 2 per day only , Mandala, Mature Woman, Metallic Junktion, Mills & Mines, Minimalism, Mixed Media, Mother Nature's Finest, Mysteries of the Common, Myths, Legends and Fairytales, Natural Textures, Nature's Macro Canvas (No flowers or insects), Nature's Reclamation, Nostalgic Art and Photography, Object Studies & Concepts, Out of the Blue (75%+ Blue), Out of the Past, Pay It Forward, Photo-Zen - 100 pages, Purple Passion Gallery. 2 per day , Ruins, Ancient and Derelict Buildings, Rural Around The Globe, Rustic, Rusty, Crusty and Falling to Bits - 2 Per 24 Hours, Scenery, Seachanges, Seashells, Seasonal 'Scapes, Seasonal Greeting Cards, Self as Other, Shoes, SIMPLY WHITE ARTWORK GALLERY - 95% White !, Smiles, Snail Mail, Something Fishy, Something To Say, Soul Mates, Spiritual Art, Sports Photography, Still Life Photography, Stillness Speaks **Max 2 uploads per day** {{No NUDES, ABSTRACT, CANDIDS or ACTION IMAGES}}, StreetArt, Sunflowers, Tattoo, Piercing and Body Modification, The Birds, The Eyes Have It, The Greatest View in the World, The Healing Journey, The Patchwork , The Red Barn, The Sensual Word, The Urban Environment, The Word Tree, Top Shelf Wildlife & Nature Art - 1Day, Toys and Puppets, Trees - 1 image per day with trees as the focal point, United States, Vibrant and Vivid Color, Vibrant Plants, Visual Texture(no pornography,nudes or offensive works), Windows and Doors, Wondrous Workhorses, You're Accepted, Your Country's Best (2 images per day) and ~Globes, Spheres and Curves - 2 per day~.

Journal Entries

Flowers in macro

Posted about 1 year ago.

Metallic Feature

Posted about 1 year ago, 2 comments so far.

Textures and Materials feature

Posted about 1 year ago, 2 comments so far.

Twice Featured

Posted about 1 year ago, 7 comments so far.

Featured in "The Patchwork"

Posted about 1 year ago, 3 comments so far.

Featured

Posted about 1 year ago, 3 comments so far.

Featured featured featured

Posted about 1 year ago, 5 comments so far.

featured

Posted about 1 year ago, 3 comments so far.

Featured twice in Bits and Pieces

Posted about 1 year ago.

thrice featured

Posted about 1 year ago, 5 comments so far.

Writing

The Seeds of Soup and Seasons

The seeds of all my seasons come together / in a soup of something I could once taste / but hold now in my mouth like water. They grow up / out of themselves / into a recipe that has it all-sweetn…

Two

Waking up, I see it folded on the screen, / a thick husk of wing, / scaled eye and antennae / hunkered against the crosshatch framing of my window, / the portent of its sleep-disturbing buzz / a …

A Balm

The fecund hum of the pond’s smell Melts the heat of noon Into a cradle of algae and desiccated white goosefeathers, Fossilizing On the shore. Streaks of tar Melt in the …

Coming Out of Deep Creek

We huddle in this leaking plastic A-frame, / A slow flood of rain pooling at our feet. / Six a.m. sees us shouldering Coleman lanterns / And our sodden pods of sleeping bag, / The fire we lit / With a…

Dogsbody

—for Stephen For awhile he lived with his mother, / Caring for her rusting gutters / And tending what remained of her shabby flower garden. / When the air became too dense between them / He l…

White Lily

Sometimes I use specific writing prompts with my students to generate ideas and to offer them writing practice. I write when they do, and it’s usually steadily for several minutes. I try to offe…

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