March 2015
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Different Feelings.
Feelings are unexpected guests that arrive, they just hop in and depending upon what is going on, they join the moment…you can't plan for them or invite them, they just arrive. They arrive with announcements or do they announce the… Continue reading
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That Wasn’t True…for Me.
In David Hawkin's book "Letting Go: The Pathway to Surrender" he writes… "Psychotherapy aims at the amelioration of neurotic patterns. (I looked up the word amelioration – "the act of making something better; improvement.") Letting go, however, is designed to… Continue reading
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Your Unique Perspective.
While doing Art, you are challenged with perspective and often it is illusive and not attainable. Its skewed perspective then becomes Art that seems to struggle among itself. The eye, or maybe brain is then agitated….or is it stretching your perspective… Continue reading
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Instead of Sins
The actual affects and residual behaviors that are often born from surviving trauma, are the very things the church has labeled "sins". These behaviors are used to cover up the pain. They are self medicating tools… As I pondered what the church… Continue reading
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Voluntary Madness
I know that in my last discussion about religion and abuse, I am not clearly understood and perhaps I can't clearly understand the opposite side. What I do know, is that religion isn't a place to heal, if you will,… Continue reading
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Great Lakes Showcase
Imagine, my Art is hanging here at the Great Lakes Showcase; an annual juried exhibition of fine arts and crafts from local and regional artists! I entered wondering how it would feel to have My Lady hanging among other types of Art…for this is her… Continue reading
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Its Children
Knowing that speaking out in offense of religion was going to bring with it many in defense. Even if they don't write and bravely dispute me, I know they silently turn away in disgust from me. Perhaps what I have more trouble… Continue reading
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Wordless works of Art
My mind was stirred up and I couldn't grasp a thread to formulate my thoughts against the onslaught of religious words in the book Hush. It felt like there were multiple languages speaking languages that I didn't speak. A gibberish… Continue reading
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What are others hearing you say?
I feel more inspired by "The Stitch" than I did with the book "Hush". I ordered 5 Kits - Speak your silence "Speak Your Silence is a nonprofit on a mission to conquer the stigma of child sexual abuse via #The… Continue reading
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Hush
"Hush – Moving from Silence to Healing after Childhood Sexual Abuse" by Nicole Braddock Bromley…sounded like a great book. She wrote this in 2007 and will be coming to Michigan Tech on the 28th of March. She lost me….before she… Continue reading
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