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This is a hugely personal piece for me. I was processing some effects of trauma in my life and the realization of how much of my life, time, energy, talent, productivity and hope for my future had been usurped by devastation. How utterly lost I was for decades living in a survival mode. And knowing something was terribly wrong, but believing it was me. And trying to hide the shame I felt and believed I WAS.
The grief of loss felt
unbearable.
unbreachable.
unrecoverable.
I began writing God’s words on my hand as an urgent prayer to absorb a will to live anew. If all my choices had been made from only a place of survival, how could I now make choices that would lead to LIVING versus merely surviving.
I began to measure my choices by this one simple rule: will this action, large or small, bring me life or death?
enjoy making direct work from natural materials in my prairie and wildlife sanctuary.
i am a very restless person and I work in many different ways with a variety of media.
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
Anne Marrow Lindbergh
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This is exceptional.
thanks so very much. :)
– yvonca
I am in survival mode
it is only the bubbler
and pieces like this
this is your best
pleae go and add it to living christian
just fabulous
the words and your incrediable craft
am not blowing sunshine up your arse
the message here is profound and you convey it with no
anger simply BRILLAINCE and devine talant
BRAVO
Oh Belinda, thank you for that encouragement. blowing sunshine . . ha haa.
you’re a breath of sunshine! really. I added to L.C. :))
– yvonca
Wow!
Willll. Thank you. . . x!
– yvonca
for this I weep not out of sorry but out of joy
because your beauty is more than skin deep
your loveliness is in your witness
your talent a pebble moulded by a sea of mystery
tossed torn shaped and smoothed to be a glittering jewel
reminds me of leonardo da vinci when he was painting the last supper
he couldn’t find the judas he wanted, eventually is saw the face required in a beggar on the street and invited him to sit for him the beggar said i was here before with you some years ago
you painted me as Jesus and so it came to pass that the same man sat for jesus and judas, life is full of accidents thats are really faith. What i love about you is the way your journey has brought you through many trials in them you see the pain and redemption of the everyman and in your work you cast them a rope to give them hope i salute you and your craft
. . . . you just blessed me . . . with your words and so beyond words. I love that incredible story- truth stranger than fiction. . . casting a rope to give them hope . . . thank you thank you!! xx.
– yvonca
wow
really so beautiful Yvonca
and your rule stands !
:)) thank you so much dear Anna.
– yvonca
the other day I was led to this
maybe you like it too :)
hey thanks- yeah, that is VERY good. and thought provoking. an interesting framework to view our lives through.
– yvonca
So very moving! And I felt ‘kinship’? with you…I’ve felt as you have…we women seem to take on guilt easily I fear..
Exceptional work! (might wish to add it to ‘image writing’? smiles
Hi Ellen, nice to meet you. :) Thank you for the kind words! Is image writing a group?
– yvonca
well done so important a work !@LIz
That is so appreciated Liz- thank you dearly! :)
– yvonca
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Nicely done and presented Beautiful work in all its entirety
nice little graphic image there :)
Thank you for that encouragement!
– yvonca
Yes, ‘Image Writing’ I think is how you spell it…I feel you’d fit in there perfectly!
Thanks Ellen- I’ll check it out.
– yvonca