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The Dawn
The solution to vanquishing trauma comes not through confronting it directly, but by working with its reflection… ~ Peter Levine, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma One week not so long ago, in a place near and dear… Sunday Driving home, … Continue reading
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Tagged creative nonfiction, healing, Park Trades Center, photography, trauma, Waking the Tiger
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Pieces unto a Whole
This painting is one from a series for my current book-art project on healing trauma. The piece is inspired by a key experience from a shamanic journey described in “Along Came a Spider.” I don’t strive to render a perfect … Continue reading
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Tagged Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Crow's Nest Center, painting, visual arts
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Plain Language
~ From *News!* for January 2013, a page with periodic updates for DotP.~ I love the writing circle, a time and place for composing and exchanging its fruits. The circle is where I hear firsthand experiences of what I stitched … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, Lansing Poetry Club, MICA Gallery, The Writing Room
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Somewhere in Time
While exploring the group studio that I recently joined in Kalamazoo, Michigan, a surprise caught my eye. A gap in the floor board was smoothed over by a transparent filler encasing a watch. The timepiece may be understood as memory … Continue reading
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Tagged book art, Crow's Nest Center, healing, Kalamazoo, Lansing Poetry Club, mapping, memory, MICA Gallery, trauma, Waking the Tiger
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falling apart
As introduced last week, I continue my Poseidon adventure! This week’s glimpse is “falling apart”, a poem that was intent on melding into book art. And by doing so, invited intuition — that inner voice — to drive the resulting … Continue reading
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Tagged book art, Crow's Nest Center, falling apart, focusing, healing, mixed media, poetry, trauma
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The Poseidon Adventure
Sometimes I can’t resist a convenient title when the fit is just right! For those wondering, The Poseidon Adventure was a 1970s film about the final voyage of a luxury ship flipped over by a tsunami, the result of an … Continue reading
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Tagged archetype, book art, healing, mixed media, mythology, Poseidon, trauma
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Proximity
The esker touches where Mom’s mom lost touch mistook a stranger for a childhood cousin and took her last supper with four generations Blue ruled her felt jacket at Assisted Living nearby the Baptist church where blue ruled my kindergarten … Continue reading
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Tagged grandmother, Margaret Elizabeth Wilson, Mason esker, poetry
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an almost winter morn’
Greetings from Dowagiac! I am on my first leg of December travels with quality time in Southwest Michigan and its “borderlands.” Thanks so much to those who are making the sojourns possible! This photograph is taken at the fireside of … Continue reading
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Tagged C. Michael Smith, Crow's Nest Center, dowagiac, photography, poetry, southwest michigan
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Remembering Dad…
The Last Time I Saw My Father was November 28, 1999 in the afternoon Pacific Time. He slipped from one shell into the sea until another shell came his way. On my dresser, he stands on a boulder lodged … Continue reading
