Category: Changing Perspectives
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Winter Break
I am heading into my winter break. As an artist, when I make a break in my daily work structure, it helps to relax and repair those overused muscles and overused mind. I am heading into mindfulness and rest. The rest part is pure attitude, for the daily work of living continues, bringing in wood,…
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The Great American Eclipse of 2017
The Great American Eclipse of August 2017 by Carol Mackay Mertz Where were you during this cross country solar eclipse of August 2017? I have never seen the totality of a solar eclipse. Guidance simply insisted that I position myself in the path. So I invited my family and they came with me. We camped…
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Last night I had dinner with my tribe.
Awakening: Deva Premal and Miten in Concert We had dinner with old friends last night. There was wonderful discussion, actual discourse, and old times remembered from six different perspectives. There was discussion, differing perspectives, differing beliefs, however the blind antagonism, we endure from so many directions these days, was noticeably absent. There was true enjoyment…
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The Spiral of Life 2017
new cycles new places on the spiral of life new perspectives new rhythms humanity resets we have created a cultural phenomenon called the new year. it is when we hope to infuse our life practice with fresh perspectives. the end of the old year was for getting organized, cleaning up messes, so that on the…
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The Community of Earth
COMMUNITY OF EARTH I am approaching an exciting moment in my life when my Progressed New Moon will begin a new 30 year cycle of life. Tomorrow is the set point when I will declare what that next major movement of my life will be about. It is akin to planting a seed, to…
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and the judge queried, “So this is performance art?”
I was standing in a woodland park in Lenoir, NC for an outdoor sculpture show. Judges don’t usually speak to the artists, but this judge clearly was looking for a toe hold with which to judge my sculpture. I stood there looking at the children zooming all around the fairies with their crepe paper wands…
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What is it like to be human?
This piece is the first in a series called, “Changing Perspectives”. It has no up and no down, and can be shifted to have four orientations. The piece offers a focus to journey into meditation. The central thrust of the series seeks to provide that moment when a change in perspective releases rigid thought…
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Of Pearls and Potatoes
Of Pearls and Potatoes i live in a forest. i was going into town and on the mountain road, high up, i had a sudden vision…some call the “vision experience” a hit, some call it a download, some call it the whispering voice in your head, some call it information from another dimension, one’s higher…
Carol Mackay Mertz 