The Magic, Miracles and Joy of an Artist: Living the Creative Life

Thursday, August 24, 2017

Living the Creative Life

Our Living the Creative Life group met this evening at Grace's Pizza in Grandin Village. We enjoyed pizza and sharing our art made with the theme "FLIGHT". When I hear the word "flight", my son is the first thing I think of since he became a pilot just a few years ago. With that in mind, and my fear of flying, I have Casey to thank for easing my fears and flying me on several occasions. With him in control, I felt safe: thus, my mixed media piece, with his hands holding the plane and keeping me safe.

Next, we have Therry Neilsen-Steinhardt's mixed media piece titled "Fall of Icarus". Icarus had wings and flew too close to the sun, burning them, which caused him to fall into the sea.

And then, Wally Neilsen's drawing/painting titled "In Flight". This painting is all about reflection from above. Put yourself in the crow's place and what do you see?

It is SO much fun to get together, enjoy the company of other artists, and see how they interpret the theme for the month!

Our next gathering will be at Mamma Maria's Italian Restaurant in Salem on Wednesday, September 27th at 6:00. Our theme for that gathering is "BIRDS".

Do a painting! Join us! You'll have fun!

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For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come!

I AM A "SEARCHER"

"I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to walk along the beach, we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty. We like forests and mountains, deserts and hidden rivers, and the lonely cities as well. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know - unless it be to share our laughter. We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls; that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love.

For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves."

~ James Kavanaugh

I am THE LOVERS Tarot Card

Motive, power, and action, arising from Inspiration and Impulse. THE LOVERS represents intuition and inspiration. Very often a choice needs to be made. Originally, this card was just called LOVE. And that's acually more apt than "LOVERS." Love follows in this sequence of growth and maturity. And, coming after the Emperor, who is about control, it is a radical change in perspective. LOVE is a force that makes you choose and decide for reasons you often can't understand; it makes you surrender control to a higher power. And that is what this card is all about. Finding something or someone who is so much a part of yourself, so perfectly attuned to you and you to them, that you cannot, dare not resist. This card indicates that you have or will come across a person, a career, challenge, or thing that you will fall in love with. You will know instinctively that you must have this, even if it means diverging from your chosen path. No matter the difficulties, without it you will never be complete.