Category: Know what it is to be human
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STOP and Let It Go…a revisitation for the New Year
October, 2020~January 2023 Genesis, 2022 I seem to be processing at hyper speed, old stuff these October days. The old stuff has some sort of negative feeling attached to it, some “feeling less than” component of my past, others past, world history’s past. The current multiple realities playing out on the world scene have about…
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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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This day…
again one of those truisms…we are all connected to the web of life. It has been some time since I wrote last. It seems counter productive to add my voice to the cacophony of sound that is our reality today. I need to be moved greatly these days to add my voice in a responsible…
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the Community of Earth on canvass
and so it begins…a new practice of contemplation for the practitioner. The exploration of expansion and contraction, visionary perspective, and cosmic relationship come together in these unique canvasses. The nine canvasses above are interchangeable, multi directional, and can be arranged by the viewer in multiple landscapes, cosmic scapes, or inner world scapes. As in…
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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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The Community of Earth at choice point
Humans, a part of the Community of Earth, are in a position of extraordinary choice at the beginning of 2017. Some days there is a tendency to focus on politics and large news events. We have the choice to read about them, and either dwell upon them and let them lead us down the rabbit…
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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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The deep experience of life.
It has been a month of linear time (chronos time) since I last wrote, but a mere moment of experiential time (kairos time). Indeed it does not feel so long ago that I tended this garden of my art/life. At the end of May, my older, only, sister transitioned from this life into her next…
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There are skies of blue, and grass of green…
This coming week brings a new experience to our lives. Our youngest son, Andrew, will come to the end of a long journey, a true journey of the soul. He will both graduate from theology school, and then become ordained as a Unitarian Universalist minister. He will come here to our farm the week before…
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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…
Carol Mackay Mertz 