Monthly Archives: January 2013
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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