By Marylin Schultz My Father In Front Of The Family Ford — Earl Russell Biggs II, vintage family postcard, circa early 1900′s, photo scan © 2011 by Marylin Schultz. All rights reserved. Images from long ago—letters, photographs, postcards, communicate family history, like ribbons tying up bundles of memories. I look into the sweet innocence of [...]
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Images From The Past
Posted in Culture, Family, Gratitude, Growing Older, Holding My Breath, Home, Life, Life In Letters, Love, Memoir, On the Road, Personal, Photography, Place, Postcards From The Edge, Relationships, Travel, Vehicles, Wake Up, tagged ancestors, ancestry, daughters, Family cars, family history, family legacies, family photos, fathers, lineage, Marylin Schultz, memoir writing, mothers, mothers & fathers, old letters, postcards, postcards as inspiration, reconnecting with family, red Ravine guest writers, red Ravine Guests, researching memoir, the art of writing postcards & letters, the power of place, the value of old letters, the value of photographs, things I learn from my family, vintage postcards, writing about family on March 29, 2011 | 28 Comments »
EarthHealer — Mandala For The Tortoise
Posted in Animals & Critters, Art, Bodies Of Water, Body, Bones, Culture, Doodling, Gratitude, Great Places To Write, Holding My Breath, Home, Life, Mandalas, Nature, Practice, Relationships, Seasons, Spirituality, Structure, Vision, Wake Up, tagged ancient rituals, attributes of Turtle, A~Lotus, BlackBerry 52, building community through the Arts, collaboration, compassion, creating mandalas, earth, Earth Day, Earth Hour, from the earth, giving back, glass half full, grounding, healing rituals, inspiration, learning to swim, make positive effort for the good, poets as inspiration, setting boundaries, slowing down, symbols of Mother Earth, terrapins, the value of slowing down, tortoises, Turtle as healer, Turtles, water, What's the difference between a turtle & a tortoise? on March 27, 2011 | 30 Comments »
EarthHealer — Mandala For The Tortoise – 12/52, BlackBerry 52 – WEEK 12, March 26th, 2011, photo © 2011 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. Medium: Drawn by hand with a black Staedtler archival pigment ink Fineliner on Canson Mix Media XL Series 98lb drawing paper. Colored with Faber Castell 6 PITT Artist Brush Pens, DecoColor [...]
Tortoise Highway
Posted in Animals & Critters, Bodies Of Water, Body, Bones, Holding My Breath, Life, Nature, Poetry, Seasons, Spirituality, Wake Up, tagged ancient rituals, creatures of the sea, earth, elements, highways, late Winter, making light of the dark, pilgrimage, red Ravine Guests, reptiles, rituals, slow walking, slower than the speed of dawn, slowing down, slowness, spiritual paths, Teresa Williams, the road less traveled, the value of slowing down, Thirst, tortoises, Turtles, waiting on March 24, 2011 | 26 Comments »
By Teresa Williams In the darkness of this winter morning I think of those tortoises on Santa Cruz island, walking their invisible pace up from the grassy plains thousands of feet to the high meadows and forests, their ritual escape from the dry heat below. They have travelled these well worn paths each season, for [...]
Mandala For The 5th Element — The Role Of Ritual In Our Lives
Posted in 13 Moons, 25 Things, Art, Body, Bones, Culture, Death, Dreams, Holding My Breath, Home, Labyrinths, Life, Mandalas, Nature, Place, Practice, Quotes, Relationships, Seasons, Secrets, Skies, Spirituality, Structure, Vision, Wake Up, tagged air, Akashic Records, archetypes, BlackBerry 52, building community through the Arts, collaboration, collage, collective unconscious, community as witness, creating mandalas, earth, Elemental Correspondences, elements, Essence, fire, gratitude for community, healing rituals, importance of ritual in our lives, Magic Dance, Rites of Spring, rituals, seasonal rituals, Sky Dancers, Sky Walkers, spring equinox, spring rituals, symbols, terma, The 5 Elements, The 5 Wisdom Dakinis, The 5th Element, The Ethers, the mystics, water, wind on March 21, 2011 | 28 Comments »
Mandala For The 5th Element – 10/52, BlackBerry 52 – WEEK 10, March 13th, 2011, photo © 2011 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. Medium: Drawn by hand with a black Fine Line DecoColor Opaque Paint Marker on Canson Mix Media XL Series 98lb drawing paper. Collaged & colored with Faber Castell 6 PITT Artist Brush [...]
Alter-Ego Mandala: Dreaming Of The Albatross (For Bukowski)
Posted in Art, Body, Bones, Doodling, Dreams, Haiku, Holding My Breath, Life, Mandalas, Personal, Poetry, Practice, Quotes, Secrets, Vision, Wake Up, Word Of The Day, tagged albatross, alotus_poetry, alter-ego, alter-ego etymology, BlackBerry 52, building community through the Arts, Bukowski, Charles Bukowski, collaborative art, community, creating mandalas, difference between life & art, divorcing ourselves from ourselves, following the Muse, gogyohka, haiga, life imitates art, meaning of albatross, mirrors, Never (Found Poem), poets as inspiration, self-identity, self-image, self-portrait on March 5, 2011 | 17 Comments »
Alter-Ego Mandala: Dreaming Of The Albatross – 8/52 (Gogyohka), 8/52, BlackBerry 52 – WEEK 8, February 27th 2011, scan © 2011 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. Medium: Drawn by hand with a black Ultra Fine Point Sharpie & Sharpie Peel-Off China Marker on Canson Mix Media XL Series 98lb drawing paper. Colored with Faber Castell [...]
Spring Cleaning
Posted in 25 Things, Body, Culture, Dreams, Family, Growing Older, Holding My Breath, Home, Life, Love, Memoir, Personal, Place, Practice, Relationships, Seasons, Topic Writing, Wake Up, tagged childhood memories, circle of life, cleaning rituals, excavating memories, family memories, grandmothers, handing over the job of remembering, holding on, Judith Ford, keepsakes, letting go, Letting Go of What Cannot Be Held Back, life lessons, mothers & sons, mothers and daughters, parents & children, red Ravine Guests, Rites of Spring, rituals, seasonal rituals, Spring Cleaning, spring rituals, the things I carry, using lists to capture details, what's left behind, Wheel of Life, writing the details on March 3, 2011 | 20 Comments »
By Judith Ford My grandmother, who was Dutch, did an incredible job of spring cleaning, every March, every year she was alive. No object and no surface was spared a scrubbing. Rugs were taken out and beaten within an inch of their threaded lives; walls were washed with a hard brown scrub brush. Curtains taken [...]
The Key To Success (Backspace) – 9/52
Posted in Art, Haiku, Laughing, Photography, Practice, tagged backspace, BlackBerry 52, BlackBerry 52 Jump-Offs, building community through the Arts, collaboration, collaborative art, collaborative photography, community, haiga, letters, Royal typewriter, tools of the trade, typewriter keys, typewriters, vintage technology, vintage typewriters, writing tools on March 1, 2011 | 22 Comments »
The Key To Success (Backspace) – 9/52 (Haiga), Week 9/BlackBerry 52, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 2011, photo © 2011 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. the key to success, no matter what type you are — know when to backspace. Week 9′s Jump-Off in the BlackBerry 52 collaboration with Lotus sprang from the keys of my Royal [...]
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