June 30, 2012
Time to Express My Gratitude…
It’s almost a year
since
I began speaking here,
uncertain
of what I was doing,
unaware
of what I was wooing,
thinking
it was all about selling
socially
a story long in telling,
instead
finding friendship all around,
exchanging
voices without a sound,
creating
a convivial sense of unity
with
a most eclectic community,
sharing
more than imagination
with the
breadth of our conversation…
As the 1st anniversary of my blog approaches I devote this post to my heartfelt appreciation for the generous, imaginative and interesting friends who have supported and encouraged my writing and artwork. You have helped to draw me out of creative isolation, connecting me to a world of fellow artists, humanitarians, naturalists, questioners and believers. With your beautiful words and pictures, your affecting joys and sorrows, your wit and wisdom, your compassion and courage, you have welcomed me into your homes and hearts, cultures, and causes, tragedies and triumphs.
As an essentially private person, it is so satisfying to share with those who appreciate and understand the creative process, especially as it can be more introspective than extroverted, evasive even as it wants to be revealing. The magic of social media to connect is still less than the miracle of making connections that are so intellectually, empathetically, artistically, and spiritually appropriate and even transforming. There is something more at work here than cyberspace.
For through the miracle of your talents and thoughts and spirits, I am constantly inspired and restored.
There are a few awards that I am LONG overdue in publically acknowledging. First Ina who nominated me for the 7X7 award–if you are not familiar with her wonderful poetry and prose then please check it out @ http://inaweblogisback.wordpress.com/. Also Caddo who nominated me for the Soul-Song and Mrs Sparkly’s 10 Commandments Awards–again, if you haven’t already, I encourage you to experience her words and wisdom @ http://caddoveil.wordpress.com/. Heartfelt thanks to you both, my dear friends!
If there is anyone I have omitted, please accept my apologies and know that I deeply appreciate your consideration.
I invite all who read this to check out my blog roll, which I recently updated. The wonderful thing about awards is that they introduce us to new sites and in turn forge new friendships. Reblogging is also an excellent way to share and something I will be doing a few times a month at least. It just feels right that as my blog moves into its second year, it should represent the offerings of the community it belongs to as well as my individual work.
Thank you! Thank you! Happy summer and blessings to all!
Diane
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June 21, 2012
More Flowering Thoughts…
I can be as busy as the bees on clover white and red…
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as lazy as poppies only moving in the wind…
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as bright and blue as the summer coming and going…
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as fragil and firm as the pea that flowers but bears no fruit…
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less certain than the bindweed that knows what it wants to cling to.
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June 13, 2012
Nature Insight: Ladies and Gent
Even with Violet and Iris gone, my garden would be a woman’s place…
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for Daisy, Lily…
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Rose…
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and Bell–not forgetting busy Lizzie…
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if it wasn’t for…
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sweet William!
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June 5, 2012
Poem: Clearing for Bluebells
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I am long gone
from that small coppice
where one man’s purpose
was all I had.
His saw, his scythe
cut through the clutter
to shed some light where
the ground was soft.
Fires were set
to burn away brash
and warm us at last
on such cold days.
We’d stop for lunch
and speak of nothing
except the birdsong
leaving winter.
He loved my hair
and constant silence
and woman’s promise
to stay for hope.
My hands, my heart
wanted to be his
working with nature’s
way of growing.
Clearing the way
for sunshine and rain
growing love not blame
from what was past.
Bluebells, bluebells
in sight and fragrance
I have come back since
just as he thought
I would.
Without darkness, Nothing comes to birth, As without light, Nothing flowers. May Sarton (American poet, novelist, and memoirist, 1912 – 1995)
I must acknowledge Laurel’s Reflections as the inspiration for this painting and poem, specifically her post of May 15, 2012, Bluebells and Other Delights where she shared some photographs taken on a family day out to Emmett’s Garden in Kent, UK. This post is dedicated to Laurel with wishes for her continued moving out of a tragic darkness into a flowering life.
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