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ECSTATIC MOMENTS
you experience ecstasy when you sense the infinite, whether it be a Bach fugue, or the birth of a child, a painting, or a particularly ingenious spreadsheet! the experience moves you to awe and wonder. there is inherent light/love in everything. when the artist, musician, counselor, author, mother, father, friend, lover sees that light and…
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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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Dimensional Resonance
or why artists often seem spacey When I create art of any kind, it is a co-creational experience. The art I help create is made from the medium, be it canvas and paint or stone, or bronze or papier-mâché. The art I help create is made from my ability to travel to and express the…
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Stay alert!
DECONSTRUCTION AHEAD CREATING A BRAND NEW RHYTHM OF SURVIVAL It has been notable of late that structures in my life are no longer functioning the way they used to or in certain cases, working at all. For instance, the calendar doesn’t work like it used to. I used to feel the days of the week,…
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Leaping Shadows Brilliant Sun
I had a fanciful thought on my walk today as I wove in and out of the shadows of the forest. Memories came back to me of what had been before in that very same spot along my walk. There was the slow moving silent blackness of a bear coming up out of the woods.…
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When I was a child…
When I was a child, our family would go to the beach on Saturdays. I remember going to get the 25 pound block of ice for the ice chest with my Father on Friday nights. The ice would keep our lunch and dinner cold all day long on Saturday. This was the 1950’s and we…
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When time has disappeared. When life has become the flow of all.
What day is it? Is it already dinner time? This doesn’t feel like a Friday….a Sunday….a Monday. I started to lose my sense of time a few years ago, but lately…April, 2021…the sense of the place of time has simply gone awry…is not there…is no longer a feeling I carry around in my body as…
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Peace Be With You
It is April. Today is Easter. The spring energy is rising. Lambs and calves and bunnies are being born. It snowed two days ago and has been in the 20’s and 30’s for a few days now in northern Virginia. The light is coming on fast, much more of it in the mornings…when there is…
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Appreciation
It was suggested to me in a course called Rebirth 2021, by Lee Harris and his talented team to create an appreciation journal. I was to write in it everyday for a month, no matter what, no matter how lazy, cranky, or happy I was. Then I was see what had happened by the end…
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Carol Mackay Mertz 