Gripped By Cathy Wysocki

  Warbell (from the POISONED WORLD series), mixed media on wood, 47″ x 48″ x 3″, 2006, painting © 2006-2009 by Cathy Wysocki. All rights reserved.       Cathy Wysocki’s pieces fill the main gallery of the Harwood Art Center in Albuquerque. Gripped: Excerpts from Poisoned World does exactly that. The works of art, many three-dimensional, [...]

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Home Ground — Back In The Saddle

Home Ground, Saint Paul, Minnesota, May 2009, photo © 2009 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.   We’re back after a 2+ week blogcation. How time flies. On Sunday ybonesy sent me an email titled: Getting Back in the Saddle. We both agreed that the vacation from blogging was refreshing; we needed it. We also took [...]

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red Ravine Gone Fishing…er…Flying…er…Writing

Hello Vietnam, colorful Vietnam, pen and ink on graph paper, doodle © 2009 by ybonesy. All rights reserved. Hello red Raviners, lurkers, and those who stumble upon us quite by accident! QM and I have been working hard for what feels like a long time, keeping this blog full of interesting tidbits and more, and, [...]

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Happy Mother’s Day!

Bloom On The Prickly Pear, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 2008, photo © 2008-2009 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.           mothers past, present holding up the other half of a timeless sky                                 Prickly Pear Buds, Bees On The Prickly Pear, Before The [...]

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toenail art haiku

Toenail Art, my friend Patty’s toenails one spring day after a morning pedicure, May 2009, photo © 2009 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.   my best friend patty her toenails are a canvas her feet a gallery -related to posts WRITING TOPIC – FEET & TOES and haiku 2 (one-a-day).

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Front Of The Bus

Riding in the front of the bus, shrine on the dashboard of a bus I rode from Delhi to Agra, India, 2006, photo © 2006-2009 by ybonesy. All rights reserved. In 2006 I took a trip to Bangalore, India for work with several colleagues. Two of us decided we couldn’t travel all that way without [...]

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PRACTICE — Feet & Toes – 20min

It’s hard to concentrate on feet and toes; yet they carry me everywhere I need to go. My poor feet were so sore after gardening last weekend. I think it was the hard-toed boots. We were clearing buckthorn from behind the house with a chainsaw. The city comes this week to haul the brush away [...]

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PRACTICE: Feet & Toes – 20min

I am grateful for feet. Grateful for the way feet have a hard outer layer that gets thicker the more you go barefoot. I’m grateful for the practicality of feet, for the way they transport and support me, for the fact that they can be beautiful and useful, like Danish furniture. When I look at [...]

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World Labyrinth Day

Wisdom Ways Labyrinth, Saint Paul, Minnesota, April 2009, photo © 2009 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. It’s the first Saturday in May. Happy May Day weekend! Hope you got out and enjoyed World Labyrinth Day, “a global event intended to bring people from all over the planet together in celebration of the labyrinth as a [...]

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