tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32547344588826962422024-03-06T03:26:12.702-05:00The Interwoven HeartAn Artist Looks Inside the Universe of BeingCecelia Kanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403373465333657007noreply@blogger.comBlogger219125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3254734458882696242.post-8092039909240399802020-05-31T09:17:00.000-04:002020-05-31T09:17:33.881-04:00THE PANDEMIC PAINTING-GRACE DESCENDS ON THE CHAOS<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">Sheltering my way through this Covid pandemic has a silver lining–TIME<span> </span>to think, create and paint! My studio (x-living room) is my happy place to ponder and shape my fears and hopes into images that attempt to portray<span> </span>the confusion,<span> </span>and express action toward a better world. This is what artists do.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">Here’s a step by step roadmap of my path. It started before Covid last Fall when I unearthed a big unresolved painting that I had put away years ago, and dared to look at again. She was simply titled <b><i>Grace.</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">and the final, <b>"Grace Descends on the Chaos"</b> finished in April:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">78” x 51” acrylic on silk mounted to canvas</span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: start;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"> 1.<b>This is where I stopped on the original painting.</b> (See Above) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">The eyes have it here but are too overwhelming. They are me I guess with the blue eye looking out of a grid of lifeless plants–I had nowhere to go but hopelessness. </span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">10+ years have passed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> 3. <b>Some nests changed to pink rings with broken red entanglements. </b>Not sure<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span>why. I let my paint brush do the thinking:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: small; text-indent: 0px;">I moved to the bottom of the painting and established the outline of the base of an ancient, gnarly tree (me in disguise). The tree shape is still indecipherable except to me. I tried some white scuff marks on the central eye to make it less insistent. Eh! Not quite what I’m trying to say.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> I<span> </span>added color, texture and oval bark shapes on the base limbs, moving up. So far so good, but very confusing imagery. I kept moving up the “trunk and limbs”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> In disgust I completely obliterate the eyes. They do not make sense here. I fill them in with bright base layers of blue and shades of red.<span> </span>Hard to look at at this stage with its blobs of shocking color. Disturbing, but I trust I can figure a way out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">It was too much to look at those blobs of primary<span> </span>red and blue. Yellow central circle turns into a fried egg. Yikes!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">I needed to make visual sense of the imagery and make the tree shape clearer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">I like the layers, the shading and the weird tropical snake-like bark. Keep going!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">In a mad rush I realize I’m onto something. I fill in most of the white puff-balls with ascending shades of red, alizarin crimson and orange to visually link up with the infernal balls of red spinning at the base. The outlined branches make more sense. I let the descending roses of Grace slip between the puffs and over the branches. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>-A blessing for EJ from Shana Robbins 4.24.2020</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">Forgive me for posting again about my dear departed Etta James. It feels indulgent, as if I’m trying your patience, but I need to cover the wound. Briefly, it has been a hard, lonely week since her passing, but I eventually did something about it. The isolation and strictness of the Vermont “Stay Home-Stay Safe” Covid-19 quarantine, and the constant national pandemic news intensified my realization of how attached I am </span><span style="font-family: Cambria;">to this dog</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;">. My body gained a degree in temperature on Friday and Saturday after a walk that was too much exertion, and a few sleep-deprived nights. It dawned on me that having a ball of Etta’s hair in a jar, and her ashes in a tin on my bedroom altar was a constant reminder of her loss, and not healthy for my heart and soul.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">With a deep sigh, I grabbed a spade and walked her remains to a nearby pine forest that overlooks where I live. Almost immediately I discovered a little woody bush with tiny purple flowers adorning her branches. This was it. I brushed aside the forest floor-covering of pine straw and dug an easy hole in the soft dark earth in front of “Etta’s Bush”. I poured in the ashes, covered them with most of the soil, added the clay paw print given by our vet clinic, topped everything with the remaining soil, replaced the pine straw and gave her a comforting pat. This tender send-off has eased my soul. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cecelia Kanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403373465333657007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3254734458882696242.post-89364028379096764312020-04-26T08:40:00.000-04:002020-04-26T08:40:25.139-04:00MY DEAR PAL, ETTA JAMES<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I return today to the Interwoven Heart blog to get off my ass and write about my life and art after a year of blogging silence–but first to honor Etta James my dear little corgi-dachshund (+ some other ancestry) who is the impetus for this writing. Etta died at age 15+ on Friday, April 24, 2020...two days ago. We were together at the end. </span><span style="font-size: large;">I'll receive her ashes this week. Yesterday, </span><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">perhaps pathetically, I swept up her black and white hairs into a dust bunny for my personal altar. This is of course an artist's way of holding her tight. One orange crumb of "marrowbone" dog treats emerged in the hairs. </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Etta and Cecelia in 2016-Peacham Vermont snow report<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Cecelia Kanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403373465333657007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3254734458882696242.post-46954403545773585412019-06-09T07:32:00.000-04:002020-04-26T09:45:08.867-04:00FINISHED!<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
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My wrestling with a painting is done! With the help of my artist friends, Annette Lorraine and Sharon Biddle, I have a finished work of art! This winter I shared on this blog my struggle to pull beauty and personal meaning out of a two-part painting of wings. </div>
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I avoided the studio, without a clue how to move the piece along. I hated to look at it. I robotically puttered, painted and scraped away until one day I angrily slathered the outline of a horizontal maple tree across the wingspan. I stuck with it.</div>
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Something clicked. The tree is me of course, an old metaphorical friend-self. Suddenly the green background became water, the wingspan dropped away to a mere framing device, the circles turned into bubbles and the shapes surrounding her began to whirl and float–still not right, but on the path.</div>
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I had shared the painting in progress in my studio with Annette and Sharon who saw through my painterly confusion. This was not advice-giving, but a kind expression of how the work felt to them, what they were excited by, and what maybe didn’t work. They also brought over their own artworks in progress to share and get feedback for–beautiful watercolor landscapes and some project ideas for the future. It was a glorious day of artistic insight!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I am grateful for their comments. They loosened my mind without telling me what to do. Later, alone in the studio, in the spirit of bravery, I swung the maple-me around to the vertical, and hoisted the two stretched canvases one on top of the other like a tree should be, sacrificing the concept of wings, but not of flight. </div>
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The wingspan now is just a hint of an arched line. The feather tips instantly became striped turquoise cocoons, and the deep greens of living water now whirl beneath me. The branches mimic outstretched arms. Light and shade feel hot and cool. This is the magic of reorientation! </div>
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Cecelia Kanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403373465333657007noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3254734458882696242.post-68405764644307113052019-02-06T07:43:00.001-05:002019-02-06T07:43:50.914-05:00WRESTLING WITH A PAINTING<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">We take long trips.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">We puzzle over the meaning of a painting or a book,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">1. In early January, I showed you the left side of a divided painting of colorful abstract wings entitled </span><i style="font-family: "times new roman";">Winged Dervish, (see above)</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">. I was off to a vibrant start in the new year. Some of you questioned the little circle of skulls in the left corner. “They are buzzing around in the background like death”, I said. Here’s my back-and-forth progress since then. I invite you to enter my painting process over the month of January. </span><br />
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2. Here's the first iteration of the right-hand wings. I liked the bubbles and floating shapes, but I felt the hearts nestled in their little eggs were too surreal. (Who knows?) So...</div>
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3. I added a gesso white-wash over the right side to partially obscure them, and I introduced an outline of a tree trunk (my Spirit Self). "Now where am I going?", I thought.</div>
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4. Here's the full outline of my tree over both sides of the wings in my studio.<br />
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5. Then I faintly gessoed in the left side branches, making sure to entangle the circle of skulls. "Would that slight change tone down their prominence," I wondered?<br />
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6. Not really. Here's a closer look.<br />
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7. The elements of the painting were getting too crowded (jumbled)? I decided to fully fill in the entire tree that was floating across the two-sided painting. Hmmm. Not sure. Much of the color is now obscured. "Is this good or bad"?, I ask myself, "Where am I going with this"?<br />
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8. Time to think. I like the bubbles and shapes on the lefthand panel, so they will stay, and I feel the skulls have something to say, but friend-artists have told me they are still too prominent, pulling the viewers eye insistently to the bottom left.<br />
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9. Yikes ! I really wanted a colorful tree to express my joyful self, so I took the plunge and painted it, as happily as I felt. (Above). This is now too overwhelming and it doesn't speak clearly about spirit, and eternity.<br />
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10. So I whitewashed the entire winged background. This is better...calmer. The tree, the skulls, the shapes and bubbles and the outline of the wings remain for another time to wrestle with. They seem to be essential.<br />
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Truthfully, I have a hint of a direction to go in. I'll let you know what I discover next time.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">-C.Kane</span></div>
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A couple of weeks ago I introduced you to one half of a new diptych entitled “The Winged Dervish”, acrylic and oil on canvas. Here's where I am so far. (See Above). It is still in progress, morphing as I add the left wing to the right, seeing what happens when all that shape and color crashes against the opposite side. </div>
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And here is your first look at the left side in progress:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Winged Dervish-Right Wing in progress with Tree Self emerging</td></tr>
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Too much going on? Maybe. Let’s see what happens this week as I add some paint here, sand away some color there. The image leads the way to what will stay and what will go. I sit back and stare, roll my studio chair away and lean back to get a wider view. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Studio View-side by side<br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">My head says Not right yet. I need some quiet inside or outside the pair of wings. I’ve added my spirit self to the mix…the outline of a tree slumbering across the winged landscape for stability, and strength in flight. The skulls remain along a branch, contained, but buzzing around to spoil the party.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #191919;">“I want to think again of dangerous and noble things.<br />I want to be light and frolicsome.<br />I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,<br />as though I had wings.”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139375.Owls_and_Other_Fantasies?ac=1&from_search=true">-Mary Oliver, Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays</a></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Winged Dervish_41in x 36in_acrylic and oil on canvas_January 1, 2019</td></tr>
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Today I introduce you to one half of a new diptych entitled “The Winged Dervish”, acrylic and oil on canvas. It is in progress, incomplete, but full of fire as it promises to take flight.</div>
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On Easter Sunday 2011in Atlanta Georgia I launched this blog, <i>The Interwoven Heart</i>…to give voice to deep, deliberate new directions in my writings, and visual work”. </div>
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Today I’m relaunching <i>The Interwoven Heart</i> after a year of silence, a new home purchase, knee surgery, and finding myself like a whirling dervish spinning too fast in multiple life directions. Happily, in the last month, my studio has become electric again, a paroxysm of redirected creative juice. More paintings, drawings, and portraits exploring transformation, “being a tree” and being in community will follow throughout the year. </div>
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<span style="font-family: cambria;">Dearest
Readers,</span><br />
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is not polished yet, but I want to note that something just happened as I lay
in bed listening first to an<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i><a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/greg-boyle-the-calling-of-delight-gangs-service-and-kinship-nov2017/">NPR radiointerview with Jesuit father Greg Boyle, founder of Homeboy Industries in LosAngeles, a gang intervention business for street kids,</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: cambria;">and then after reading the Afterward by Michael Chabon to his little swashbuckling Jewish
adventure tale, </span><b style="font-family: cambria;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345501748/ref=x_gr_w_glide_bb?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_w_glide_bb-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0345501748&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2">“Gentlemen of the Road”</a>. </b><span style="font-family: cambria;">A
tiny door opened inside my timid brain. A mouse finally had the courage to turn
the knob and emerge into the bright-light with a daunting idea to use my
impending house purchase as a vessel for creative adventures, not just as
shelter and safe haven.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">That’s
right! This Friday I’m about to close on a little house in the center of Peacham,
Vermont, my beloved adopted hometown. Here it is: Ta-Da! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">You can use the link directly below to see the rooms inside: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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an outside paint job which will happen in late Spring, but it’s well built by
hand, with mid-century modern touches, a linoleum floor in the kitchen/dining room
just begging to be a studio, and no worries about splattered paint. It comes
with an acre and a half of land, a barn and a lovely raftered empty space over the garage with possibilities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It
turns out I’m not a brave person. When I learned in October that my rental
apartment along a forested dirt road in Peacham would not be available after May 1st, I pulled
emotionally inward from fear of change and loneliness. I wanted my family to be nearby
to pat my hand and give me advice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I began an anxious search for other rentals in the area, weighing options nightly at 2am
while staring at the stars from my bedroom window. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Rentals are not abundant in
a small town of 720 people. The thought of moving to another village scared me. I
love this sharing, earthy community, and all my new friends. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">To
regain my equilibrium, and quell my anxiety, I had to down-regulate from my
daily painting regimen and stop offering my volunteer services. During those 2
am episodes of wild insomniac mind, I re-discovered my Confirmation rosary and a
book of contemplations, <i>“Comfortable with Uncertainty”</i>, by the American
Buddhist nun, Pema Chodrun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The meditation
reflections, and my prayerful recitations on the rosary gave me some control. I can see why some folks call them "worry beads". It worked to soften my mental suffering! So does a sky full of stars.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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considered renting a “tiny house” still under construction on the outskirts of
Peacham. It was new, aesthetically beautiful, and full of light upstairs. </span></div>
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agonizing, I knew I’d be too isolated and further away from friends and in-town
life. The rental price was right, but I would be miserable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">One
of my sanity strategies was not to decide, but just walk – walk, walk, walk – up
and down the hilly woodland roads. I asked friends for advice. Many helped. I
tried seeing the situation humorously (no luck there). I needed to take action.
Logic kept telling me to rent the lonely house on the hill because it was a
cool design and the rental price was right. An imaginary finger wagged in my
head that I’m too old for home ownership and all the headaches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Then one morning another brain-snap cracked me open. I was reading an
article in bed from a recent Art in America magazine about an artist who creates
installations in her studio. (Her name escapes me.) Something clicked. I realized I could make
installations inside the little in-town Peacham house that was still for sale, or
make a small apartment upstairs to rent out if my finances turn out to be
inadequate. I could live like I want among friends and close neighbors. I
called my realtor and made an offer that day. I followed my heart, and turned a
scary situation into something fat, full of possibility and maybe transformation.
I’m still not sure, and still worried, but that’s OK.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cecelia Kanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403373465333657007noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3254734458882696242.post-43254484651292047302017-05-21T08:54:00.000-04:002017-05-21T08:54:47.393-04:00WINNERS AND LOSERS<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "cambria";"><b>“What
a fucking joke”</b></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11.0pt;">-</span><span style="font-family: "cambria";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Madam Pinky in Aravind Adiga’s 2008 novel, <u>The
White Tiger</u>, describing society and class </span></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dearest
Readers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I
return to my blog after a winter hiatus, and a spate of wild painting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More on that in a later blog…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I’ll
pick up where I left off in January…sitting and thinking at my frozen upstairs bedroom
window, now moist and green below, waiting for something to happen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
opening quote refers to me…silly me. Back in January, I proudly attended the
opening reception of “ArtsConnect”, a juried show at <a href="http://www.catamountarts.org/">Catamount Arts Center inSt. Johnsbury Vermont</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I had
been picked by Andrea Rosen, the curator from the <a href="http://www.uvm.edu/~fleming/index.php?category=home&page=home">Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont</a> to be included in an exhibition of sixty-one local and New England artists.
It felt good to “win”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "cambria";">I showed two fabric sculptures created before I moved to Vermont. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Miss Perfect</b>_8x20x3.5_fabric_wood_acrylic_ glass_papier mache_bricks_dynel and lightbulbs</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria";">Getting in the show stirred
up the bones of another creature I’d made years earlier –“Miss Perfect”, a trickster
masking the little Catholic schoolgirl in a blue jumper and white blouse who
just wanted to please.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Academy of St. Aloysius Grammar School uniform made from memory, 2011</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">What
did not feel good was “losing” during the awards ceremony mid-way through the art show. I would like to declare that it doesn’t matter, that I’m an artist just
for the fun and fulfillment of creating, but I discover again and again that
pride, <b>PRIDE</b> is laughing in a prominent corner of my brain. I try, but he
(she?) will not relinquish my neural core. I can see her though. Some would say
that everything is a game. We learn the unstated rules, then elbow or
co-operate our way through life. Poets like Maya Angelou, <u><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13214.I_Know_Why_the_Caged_Bird_Sings?ac=1&from_search=true">I Know Why theCaged Bird Sings</a></u>, </span><span style="font-family: "cambria";">and
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223145.Open_Secret?ac=1&from_search=true">Rumi </a>remind us of the cages of power and social norms–</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Take someone who doesn’t keep score,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Who’s not looking to be richer, or
afraid of losing,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Who has not the slightest interest
even<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In his own personality: He’s free<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">-Jalaluddin Rumi–<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223145.Open_Secret?ac=1&from_search=true">Open Secret:Versions of Rumi<o:p></o:p></a></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria";">Don’t
get me wrong. The winners’ artworks were good. I smiled and clapped, but I was
not happy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><i><b>“There
is no key. There is no key.”</b></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I’m
quoting here again from Aravind Adiga’s wonderfully disturbing novel, <u>The
White Tiger</u> about the roles and the rules of survival between the haves and
have-nots in contemporary Indian society. There is a deadly comedy to this game
of winning and losing inside the metaphorical “Rooster Coop”–an unlocked cage
stuffed with chickens waiting to be sold in the markets for dinner. The poor
creatures do not see that the door is open! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "cambria";">This goes for America too of course, down to my nascent
wishes and desires. I know a few people who seem outside of the cage. I admire
them and sometimes see glimpses of light in myself. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In all fairness to me, I’m
inching along on that enlightened path.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Age,
self-kindness and experience in the world tell me to go easy on the self-blame.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">So, as Spring bursts from the starting gate, I’m at the
window again contemplating the wish or need to be a perfect winner as the creatures and
things in nature win and lose, live and die on a daily basis around me. What I see is a
wild raucous balance. Some say it’s survival of the fittest, but to me there is
a powerful balancing act between the parts and the whole of everything . <b>There is
no cage.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Cecelia Kanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403373465333657007noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3254734458882696242.post-68429934203204802392016-12-11T12:20:00.001-05:002016-12-11T12:20:32.842-05:00FINDING TRANQUILITY<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“We
don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are” </span></i><span style="font-family: cambria; font-size: 11pt;">-The Talmud</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from a chair</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dearest
Readers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Recently,
I listened to an American journalist in Havana assessing the mood of that
country after the death of Fidel Castro. She spoke of a mix of sadness and
nonchalance among those she interviewed, and the sorry state of the country’s
economy. Amazingly, the interviewer shared an observation that Cuban farmers in
the rural areas, despite their poverty, exuded a remarkable tranquility (her
word). She left it at that without any further elaboration. Tranquility! I
couldn’t remember ever hearing that word used on the news. It seeped into my
brain and my bones. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Each
morning I sit in a cushioned kitchen chair for a few minutes, and stare out my<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">bedroom
window through a patch of congealed vapor at the trees below (I’m on a hill),
and at the vastness of the sky scribbled with clouds. I meditate a bit, and
then I recite a decade of the rosary adjusted for my intentions of the day. A
decade is a grouping of 10 beads for 10 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hail
Marys,</i> and one large bead for an <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Our
Father</i> and a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Glory Be</i>. I pepper
the prayers with more secular words, and good wishes for my three kids, six grandkids,
and future generations, with special thanks to my parents and grandparents who
got me here. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3vj9Fn2-BQ0EtPgLeiGequLSNwP2sGx4cJDoaI3Nca908gCCMtbGKcHvt70n8cq6Bp3hLMIHfJ0vepJhUVHiGB5qfLJoAn0BnNWmj23G8x_OTygvkNEMAmhTLWgroyp2nkiLxcGephgM/s1600/Etta-James-sleeps-in-bed-with-Cecelia-Kane_Peacham-VT_12.10.2016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3vj9Fn2-BQ0EtPgLeiGequLSNwP2sGx4cJDoaI3Nca908gCCMtbGKcHvt70n8cq6Bp3hLMIHfJ0vepJhUVHiGB5qfLJoAn0BnNWmj23G8x_OTygvkNEMAmhTLWgroyp2nkiLxcGephgM/s400/Etta-James-sleeps-in-bed-with-Cecelia-Kane_Peacham-VT_12.10.2016.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The tranquility of being Etta</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I
begin my day with the pleasures of reading in bed while drinking my one
half-caff coffee, feeling Etta James’ little body curled next to my legs, and
in due time, rubbing her belly when she rolls over with paws curled in begging
position. A good start.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Cambria;">I’ve
discovered that tranquility implies timelessness. Its serenity depends on
patience and the willingness to bend to a situation. There’s humility and selflessness
inside it too. As soon as I seek to seek tranquility a contradictory itch is released
in my mind and body that strives for the goal of relaxation. This is indeed the
conundrum of thinking too hard, when tranquility just </span><b style="font-family: Cambria;"><u>is</u></b><span style="font-family: Cambria;">. You know it when you see it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">Being
tranquil is hard to do in our speedy world. I have an advantage in this search.
I’m retired, I limit my “to-do’s” and I paint when I want to. I volunteer occasionally, see friends and find that I can voice my opinions easily.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Having
the responsibility of raising kids, or a job with deadlines, driving in
traffic, or being on time are not so important now-a-days. I don’t need to
control so many things. My daily walks are like praying, by imbibing calmness with
the sun, snow and air. Simple stuff.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Last
month Becky Jensen, the director of our Peacham Library filled a display case
with books on kindness and character as an antidote to the lack of civil dialog
during the presidential campaign. I’m reading one of them–<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Wisdom of Donkeys</i></b>, by
Andy Merrifield, with the subhead, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Finding
Tranquility in a Chaotic World</i>. He wrote it in 2006.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Andy
is an x-New York City writer of newspaper and magazine opinion articles who
escaped the chaos, (his description) and now lives and writes in the rural Auvergne district of
France. The book recounts a summer journey he took on foot up and down the
forest and village paths of that area, leading Gribouille, a gentle, soft-eyed
donkey, who carried his gear. It seems donkeys are masters of the art of tranquility. You cannot
force one to rush or to proceed when it senses danger. They are patient and
all-suffering. Merrifield moved at Gribouille’s pace, talked to passers-by, sat
with his coffee at outdoor cafes while his companion nibbled quietly near a
hitching post. It was life-changing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I
have tranquility sometimes, more than in the past, but it’s not the norm. I
can’t say I’ve “reached” it yet. (There’s that oxymoronical “itch” again.) Tranquility
can’t be a goal, I think. It’s just is a simple state of being. Ahhhh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“The
essential is invisible to the eyes.” </span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt;">-the fox in Saint-Exupery’s </span><i style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt;">The Little Prince</i></div>
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Cecelia Kanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403373465333657007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3254734458882696242.post-28297560670975053002016-11-06T12:23:00.000-05:002016-11-06T12:23:58.598-05:00ON COURAGE<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Courage</i></b>, Final version_2014, 6 ft x 4 ft, oil stick, ink, acrylic, charcoal and gauze</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria";">Dearest Readers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria";">I’m thinking about courage today, walking through the woods musing on the possible definitions–trying
to find words that explain my winged representation in the painting above. <b><i>Courage</i></b>
is one of my three large works on human goodness currently on view through
November at the <span id="goog_1454849941"></span><a href="https://peachamlibrary.org/gilmore-gallery/gilmore-gallery-2016/">Gilmore Gallery in the Peacham Vermont library</a>.<span id="goog_1454849942"></span> Several viewers
at the show’s opening reception asked for reasons why I chose the imagery of
wings. I stumbled through my answers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria";">Wikipedia says, "Courage (also called bravery or valor) is the choice and willingness to confront agony,
pain, danger, uncertainty or intimidation."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A romantic painting entitled “Godspeed!”, by
Edmund Leighton (1852-1922) accompanied their definition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Godspeed-</i>Edmund Leighton</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria";">Courage for me is personal
and entwined with the natural world. It is a pair of wings to wear in difficult
times. It is a flying machine for facing death, inspired by birds and branches
that reach for the sky. But this is only part of it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-style: italic;">Helping-Hand-Wings for Hazel Who Was Afraid of Death</b>-21 in x 16in, ink and pastel on paper, 2003</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria";">After my mother died in
1997, I drew her a pair of imaginative wings made out of “helping hand” gloves,
with velcro-fastened shoulder straps and headlights to smooth her transition
from this life and beyond. I saw the fear in her eyes when the priest arrived
to administer the last rights. I realized that I too wanted assistance at the
end. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cecelia at Hambidge Center with early <b><i>Courage</i></b> wings-Dec. 2009</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wings at Hambidge Center with shoulder straps and white "feathers"-Dec. 2009</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria";">In December 2009 during
a month-long artist residency at the Hambidge Center for Arts and Sciences in
the North Georgia mountains, I began my painting that I now call “Courage”. It
was a long time coming. I found two branches on the forest floor and mimicked
their wing-like curves in ink, acrylic and charcoal. I added eyes to see in the
dark and strips of painted gauze as feathers that I later changed to pure
white. I sewed my own pair of silk covered shoulder straps that fit my body
perfectly. I could “wear” my courage on the wall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Courage</i></b>-mid-point 2010</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria";">Later the sky in the center changed from cheerful blue to a deep and cosmic blue-green blended by hand from
oil-sticks. Planets and stars dotted the universe beyond. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">I slashed two angled gashes in rough red paint and created a </span></span><span style="font-family: '"cambria"';">high color </span><span style="font-family: cambria;">focal point in the middle.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Left to Right_Sally_Cecelia_Ruth in Hambidge mirror_2009</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria";">I sent the painting a
year later as a gift to an Atlanta friend, Sally Wylde in hospice in Massachusetts
with breast cancer. Sally and Ruth Schowalter, friends from Decatur GA in 2009
visited me during my stay at Hambidge when the painting took shape and Sally
was going through chemo and radiation. We took a selfie in my Hambidge cottage
bathroom mirror. Sally is left, Ruth is right. I’m the somber one in the
middle. After Sally’s death in 2010, her husband Btitt Dean gave the wings back
to me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I kept it rolled up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria";">In 2013 I found the
courage to unfurl it on my studio wall. I ripped off one foot of “superfluous” painting on either end. This
was an act of courage to potentially destroy it, but now I needed to make it
less personal and more universal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria";">I removed the “cutesy”
straps at once, and in 2014 I painted over the all-seeing eyes that felt like they were
judging. There. Done! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria";">So, what is courage? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria";">For me it is stepping out of a
comfortable space and taking the risk to move forward into the unknown,
trusting in whatever the outcome brings. It is not the absence of fear. It is
releasing hold of safety, and free-falling into what must be done. It is
accepting help and wearing the wings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cecelia Kanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403373465333657007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3254734458882696242.post-88390180655485625872016-08-16T13:48:00.000-04:002016-08-16T13:48:13.528-04:00RACING HOME<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: ChronicleTextG2-Italic;">Through the empty
branches the sky remains.</span></i><i><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "ms mincho";">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: ChronicleTextG2-Italic;">Be earth now, and
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<i><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: ChronicleTextG2-Italic;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Be the ground lying
under that sky.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: ChronicleTextG2-Italic;">Be modest now, like
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: ChronicleTextG2-Italic;">ripened until it is
real,</span></i><i><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "ms mincho";">
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<i><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: ChronicleTextG2-Italic;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>can feel you when (he) reaches for you.</b></span></span></i><br />
<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: xx-small;">-Rainer Maria Rilke</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: ChronicleTextG2-Italic;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Book of Hours, II 1</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: ChronicleTextG2-Italic;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> *My parentheses</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dearest
Readers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Portland to Peacham, May 2016</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Driving
from Portland to Peacham this Spring was a 3,100 mile cross-country race home. I was outrunning
the inevitability of a limited number of years left on this planet, and feeling the need to churn
out the artistic questions about this love affair I have with the trees,
forests, and the Green Mountains of Vermont–my ancestral home. This is the place
where my great grandparents arrived from Ireland, escaping the Potato Famine of
the 1840’s and the oppressions of life under English colonial rule.
Some fought in the American Civil War a decade or so later, </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peter Fagan-16th Vermont Infantry-Grand Army of the Republic</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">and most are buried
in the same town of Rutland Vermont where they first put down roots, raised
families, and where I spent the later years of my childhood. I am grateful to
them for taking the risk of immigrating to a new land and making this place
their home. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bridget Hickey Dunn</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Margaret Conlon Fagan</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Patrick Fagan in Civil War uniform</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thomas Dunn</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: cambria;">Because of the Dunns, the Conlons, the Fagans and the Hickeys, I’m sitting
in my 2</span><sup style="font-family: cambria;">nd</sup><span style="font-family: cambria;"> floor bedroom scanning a vast sky over a lush green Vermont
forest brimming with the inexorable creation and destruction that is the
wildness of Nature.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My window view of sky above and forest below at sunset</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It is in me too. I fit into this landscape. My mind is the mind of the land interwoven
with the continuous </span>progression of generation, growth, decline,
death, decay, and regeneration. Outside my window is a cathedral. I stop, look
and listen.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Mother Hole-West Rutland Vermont 2012</td></tr>
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If you remember, dear readers, I have in recent
years burrowed myself a tunnel into the earth to satisfy my itch to claw
into this Vermont-y-ness. I descended on a hand-lashed ladder, and I climbed
out.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Thinking Place-Peacham Vermont 2014-2015</td></tr>
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More recently I fashioned a womb-like stick hut in the field outside my
window. I cleared, I dug, I sawed, and wove the branches into a quiet thinking
place. My friend Cynther added the leafy boughs.<br />
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Today the burrow is filled in, and the hut dismantled and rearranged
into a pile of branches that has been home to hummingbirds, white throated
sparrow and the ubiquitous, resourceful ground hogs. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I call
my road here in Peacham “the Hall of the Ancient Mountain Maples”. They too are
weathered and stalwart. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I feel the wind in
my thinning hair. I walk and walk and walk my gnarly feet across the dark
brown earth. I turned 70 last week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cecelia Kanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403373465333657007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3254734458882696242.post-67985883207360979662016-07-31T10:43:00.000-04:002016-07-31T10:43:29.145-04:00GRACE CONTINUED<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Before the fix</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria";">Dearest
Readers,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "cambria";">Last
time I told you the story of a painting called "Grace", named after
that amorphous gift from out of the blue that arrives without warning, perhaps
undeserved, but definitely welcomed as an answer to my painterly conundrum of
what to do next. She is done. This painting. Completed. I am content after ten
years of carting this big girl around with me.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Before the fix</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Last
time I blogged and whined about the intensity of its eye motifs, and the
cheezy-ness of that dripping tear. All gone. No more worries. I quite simply,
(timidly at first) toned down two of the eyes as a test.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the eyes after the fix</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another eye after the fix</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I covered them with
white paint to match the background, and quickly ragged it off. Then I brushed
some back on, then off, then a lesser amount on, then I walked away, out of the
studio. I kept returning during the evening taking sneak peaks. A few days
later I shared these baby steps with my stalwart "Art Crit Group"
from Atlanta via FaceTime on my iPhone. "Keep going," they said,
"pick a few more to soften here and there".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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waited a few days, then last Saturday morning in bed a realization welled up
that a gradual muting of the eyes in the lower half of the piece made sense
with the arrival of Grace from the upper half. I plunged ahead, dabbing and
erasing, covering and partially revealing. It worked! I even brightened the elements in the upper half.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Final painting after the big fix</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The eyes now rest easy
within the picture plane.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I even painted
over that pesky teardrop that spoke of sadness with a cudgel. I took a full
view photo, and several details. Funny, the closeup of the central melancholy
eye revealed a hint of the underlying tear. It was still visible beneath the
new dabs of acrylic! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This time I had no doubts. The tear must go in favor of a
subtler image. I am at last content. My hope for you, dear viewer, is that you can
experience this painting now in any way you like.</span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC4BERKSl4cSqBPedAIt62-Sj1xbL3RjiVqwjl0m4M0wvtnvrjfNMQGOQUoslJIrr2J6yz0V-FZOtSmfnGL7bAIFuX57J0j0_0cBP8qibPNEBfTNI9nsL3VdEa1GTK2k6NZueGeRSbCmA/s1600/Grace-descending_revised-final_7.24.2016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC4BERKSl4cSqBPedAIt62-Sj1xbL3RjiVqwjl0m4M0wvtnvrjfNMQGOQUoslJIrr2J6yz0V-FZOtSmfnGL7bAIFuX57J0j0_0cBP8qibPNEBfTNI9nsL3VdEa1GTK2k6NZueGeRSbCmA/s400/Grace-descending_revised-final_7.24.2016.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Revised brighter detail</td></tr>
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Cecelia Kanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403373465333657007noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3254734458882696242.post-64639394565865989022016-07-03T15:46:00.000-04:002016-07-03T15:46:31.625-04:00GRACE<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiktNQ2HJEaKfUNrHWwk2SIs-uEenMHGdWPPdMNfVRtb76kYBLX8ATVYbqUls5q0rhiQgXfXIbwSY60mHg8F_k0FITFNi20HhRvtarfDFJcusmITX6t4JwvY_G2VNaYCC-8Jc_sQphww7k/s1600/Grace_wrapped-painting1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiktNQ2HJEaKfUNrHWwk2SIs-uEenMHGdWPPdMNfVRtb76kYBLX8ATVYbqUls5q0rhiQgXfXIbwSY60mHg8F_k0FITFNi20HhRvtarfDFJcusmITX6t4JwvY_G2VNaYCC-8Jc_sQphww7k/s400/Grace_wrapped-painting1.jpg" width="281" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wrapped for shipping</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222;">This is the story of a painting. It's a little like a puzzle, more like an itch. I've been lugging the piece around for ten years, from one studio and four homes, adding and subtracting, covering and uncovering parts. First just eyes painted on a thin piece of orange silk, which I later mounted to canvas and stretched across a frame, then more images added over time.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">I call it </span></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Grace</i></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, and it seems to hold some key to who I am, though I'm not sure, and just writing that feels too highfalutin. She's big, heavy and a pain to carry. 6'6" tall x 4'3" wide, a nice wrap for a tall woman like me. (I tend to anthropomorphize art and trees. That's annoying to some friends, viewers and readers, but I can't help it). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've cut off the strapping tape and packing paper that protected it on my last two journeys to and from the West Coast. I'm staring at her now in my Vermont bedroom. She survived well.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />I'm somewhat embarrassed by what I see, but I can't help that either. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My left logical brain says the grid of blank, staring eyes is overdone. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And that glistening teardrop from the central eye is just plain cheesy, but I cannot remove it. I've planned to, but my hand refuses to make the mark to cover it up. My heart says this story speaks the truth. So what truth? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />At the risk of narrowing your experience of the painting, I will translate.<br />I am the little eye both sad and full of life, surrounded by ancestors I think, or protectors, connected by pale, thorny rose branches. They are the source of the tiny cascading roses descending in a flow of syrupy grace. For me, I, the little Eye, am resting against a background of living flesh, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">still part of the world of regeneration. The others are from the past, washed out but still influential. My touch of sadness is just the knowledge of death. </span><br />
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So there it is. My parable of myself, like an open wound for all to see. But good too–a wellspring. I like the way I painted it–the bright, complex colors, the layers and depths. </div>
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Of course I will still pick at her with a few painterly clarifications to the story, but the end is near as it has been for years. The roses need brightening up. They are joyful gifts of Grace after all. The big eyes could use a bit more arch to some of the blankest lids. I was going to try a thin coat of translucent paint or ground to mute their insistency. I might experiment carefully with that. Or maybe just stop and let it be.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Cecelia Kanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403373465333657007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3254734458882696242.post-8402968902961102042016-05-08T15:29:00.002-04:002016-05-08T15:29:27.144-04:00RETURNING: The Physics of Deciding<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">I
have decided to return to Vermont, my homeland of ancestors and wild nature-love. I begin my drive back on May 18th. VT is a crazy place that some say is difficult to like; frigid for long periods
of the year, and far from big population centers with their diversity and
variety of offerings. Nevertheless, culture abounds, quiet surrounds and
choices are simpler for me than city life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-style: italic;">Asking Myself the Questions, </b>Acrylic on canvas, stretch jersey, stuffing, glass beads, silk, fringe_2005</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">The decision
to go back was like being an observer at a tennis match. One day I’d face the
“stay in Portland” side of the net, and another day I’d whiplash to the “go”. I
had a counselor here to speak with, and friends in both places who love me, and
want me to be with them, like my Shambhala Center's Aging Group friends below, and ME Fitness friends.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me top left, then clockwise Stephanie, Jan and Linda_part of the Shambhala Meditation Center's Aging Group</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ME Fitness Senior Strength and Balance Group: left to right-Cindy_Deborah_Linda and Gloria</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">The hard part is leaving my daughter, her partner, and especially my grandson and granddaughter who see me as a natural part of their lives.</span>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The kids in Portland:left to right_Henry, Joel, Ayla and Iva Mae Hazel</td></tr>
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I keep the door to my garage apartment unlocked so little Henry can pop
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Baby Iva May Hazel smiles at the sight
of me, and stares from her stroller into my eyes through an entire hour-long
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I.M. Hazel in her stroller smiling at me (my daughter Ayla's hand)</td></tr>
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Sigh.
What’s missing is a sure thing. I wish a crystal ball of certainty existed to
assure me that going home is better that not, or vice-versa.</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Last
week, Krista Tippett interviewed the American Nobel physicist, Frank Wilczek on
her public radio podcast <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/on-being/id150892556?mt=2">“On Being”</a>. He spoke of the quantum notion of Complementarity
in which two opposing properties of a thing can exist together and both be
true. Normally in our “surface world”, the opposite of a truth is a falsehood,
but not on the sub-atomic level. Light can be both particle and wave. Time
flows forward and back. Both are true, but not at the same time. (huh?) I think
I understand that right. Our human brains cannot wrap our heads around such
ideas, but the math bears it out. The world is beautiful, and elegant the
physicists say. Frank Wilczek loves the uncertainties, but most of us lay-folk
do not. I want a neat little solution–clean-cut like a catechism question and
answer, with all the shoulds and self-expectations of what a grandmother is and
does spelled out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe the conundrum of
seeing both sides of the coin is the actual truth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">So,
dear readers and friends, I leave you this time with what I feel inside, which
is a roiling sense of contentment, and a quiet knowing within this act of
returning. I will be back, again and again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cecelia Kanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403373465333657007noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3254734458882696242.post-41807669092549562382016-03-31T13:07:00.000-04:002016-04-07T08:21:26.162-04:00WEATHER AND THE SOUL<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Warm,
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Portland
and Vermont share a weather-intensive focus that envelopes the soul, and
affects the conversations of friends. My mental outlook the past two years in
these beautiful places reflects the abundance of precipitation and the
preciousness of sunshine. I have a touch of seasonal affective disorder (S.A.D.)
that I keep in check with daily “medicinal” walks in natural light, whatever
the cloud cover might be. Last year it was the continual snowfalls that
dominated my temperament, and which I counted in 63 facepost postings. This
year it’s the blanket of rain, a near-daily phenomenon of the coastal Northwest
in late fall, winter and spring. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Neighbor on NE Mallory with a palm tree growing</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">The climate is warmer than I expected with a
variety of woodsy and even tropical vegetation, species native to the region...</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sequoia-ish conifer along my dog walk route</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Little umbrella shaped tree just before blooming </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Giant begonia perhaps, or species of hydrangea???</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">and lots of rain-loving moss and mushrooms. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Neighbor's mossy, fern-sprouting rock wall</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mushroom sundaes by a mossy fence</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carpet of moss along my street </td></tr>
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I love the imperviousness of Portlanders to the
rain. Life goes on with the proper gear, as it does in the Vermont snow.<br />
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Rarely do I see a traditional lawn with hedges around the foundation, or a totally white house. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fall plantings along NE Mallory St.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Neighbor Margot's house last October with a selection of shrubs and trees</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spring front yard plantings on NE Mallory St.<br />
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Portlanders in my area prefer colorful house paint in bright or
muted tones with contrasting trim on homes with a variety of
dormers, overhangs, and gables. There’s a creative spirit in my urban
landscape.</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sun has emerged from weeks of intermittent
rain. This remarkable occurrence was the topic of conversation at my senior
fitness class, </span>with lots of jokey comments about the persistence of Portland precip, and high hopes for the beautiful summers.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My friends in the neighborhood fitness class-Senior Balance and Strength-left to right<br />
Cindy, Deborah, Linda and Gloria</td></tr>
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A week ago I snapped a nearly full moon
on a clear night. My soul leapt! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Night moon through my studio skylight</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">From
the perspective of a new-bee, there is joy in the garden arrangements, humor in
the house paint, friendliness in sunshine, which beats back the potential
depression of this long period of somber weather. </span><br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">The plants seem to love it
and blossom through the filtered light. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our new pear sapling in bloom last week despite the gray days</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">My new granddaughter Iva Mae Hazel and
I take our frequent jaunts in a rain-outfitted stroller. She’s dry and content,
and so am I. New life, nourished by water and now some sun quickens my soul.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lenten Rose (Helebores) in bloom in my Portland neighborhood–Right on time</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">stained glass windows, a feast of color<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">songs sung. The church warms slowly. I sit,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">on Lake Michigan in August.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Later, I carry the sacred mood<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">like Communion to my neighbors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">-Lawrence Kessenich</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">When
I was a kid, Lent was a time of daily Mass, denial and hope for Easter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like the poet Lawrence Kessenich above, I too
hold deep memories of attending pre-dawn services on weekdays with my
Mom or Dad. The weather was still cold in Jersey City. </span>Nature
was waiting to explode. <br />
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These days I’ve
discovered St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in my Portland neighborhood. I wrote
about my search for spiritual paths in a recent blog entitled <a href="http://www.interwovenheart.blogspot.com/2016_01_01_archive.html">Pilgrim's Progress</a>, as one of several necessary ingredients in getting grounded here.<br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">I’m
surprised at what I’m discovering in this church. Has the whole organization
shifted so dramatically from stressing sin as it did when I was a child, to a
worldview that emphasizes social justice, mercy and our kinship with all
peoples? It's a good thing. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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My small way to help in my community is to quietly pick up trash on my morning dog
walks with Etta. I carry two plastic produce bags from the supermarket–one
for 'dog do' of course, and one for the refuse that appears out of nowhere each day
in the neighborhood. Seven of the eight blocks on my walk route are already looking better, and so easy to do little-by-little.</div>
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I also use the Lenten Rice Bowl iPhone app to daily ponder ways to be kinder, to pledge small amounts of alms to combat global hunger, and to offer it in a portable cardboard “bowl” on Easter Sunday.<br />
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Lent,
like springtime is the season for renewal, whether you are spiritually-minded or not. Buddhists
say the lotus grows from the mud at the bottom of the pond–the grit of life. Many Christians,
and Catholics in my personal experience, use these six and a half weeks to
consume less, do good deeds and practice charity as strategies for personal
growth and the greater community good.<br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Dearest
Readers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">I’m four
months now in Portland, and overwhelmed with the mounds of options I’ve
uncovered for living happily here. My first draft for this blog enumerated all
my new commitments, appointments and invitations to join groups. It was
exhausting just to list them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">My
tendency in life when confused has always been to dive into the self-imposed morass of choices,
struggle and search, until I pull out the ones that satisfy. It’s a way to
corral my intimidation of being in an unfamiliar city without old friends, and cover my head under a heap of busyness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Time instead
to sit and think. Trust and wait. Smell the flowers (like the sensuous Winter Daphne above), and walk the dog. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hapenny Road in Peacham Vermont</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Last
year inside the quiet of rural Peacham Vermont, I realized that four simple
things seemed essential for my contentment. I reiterate them here:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Painting---Walking---Helping
my neighbors---Hugging my kids and grandkids<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Holding granddaughter Miss Iva Hazel a day after her birth</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In my studio at home</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">That’s
it. That’s the core of my joy, along with big chunks of solitude, quiet, and
socializing.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Etta
and my grandson Henry have figured out how to live this simple way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">They
eat and play, sleep and love. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m
getting the picture.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Cecelia Kanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403373465333657007noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3254734458882696242.post-65289932708688656332016-02-01T20:44:00.000-05:002016-02-01T20:44:16.908-05:00CHAPTER FIVE-ARTISTS WHERE ARE YOU?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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1. Meet
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">I’m
three months now in Portland, acclimatizing, acculturating, and sniffing around
for a community of artists. The great installation artist <a href="http://www.annhamiltonstudio.com/">Ann Hamilton</a>
describes herself as “a maker”. So am I---a maker with a need to share my
creativity and ideas about the visual life with like-minded souls. Things are
taking shape. This is my adventure in finding Portland art and artists so far: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alberta Abbey performance space and studios</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">2. The Alberta Abbey, a former Baptist church just up the street is always locked up tight with code pads, no buzzer and not a soul in sight. I heard they offer an open model drawing session on Sundays, but I can't get in, and they don't respond to questions on their website. Strike out.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cully left, me on the right in front of her backyard studio</td></tr>
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2. In
early November I contacted Portland artist, <a href="http://cullyrenwick.blogspot.com/">Cully Renwick</a>, </div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">through my Barre VT artist friend,
Janet Van Fleet. I visited Cully’s cool, sunny studio in the South
East section of town, not far from me, </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cully in her studio near her latest paintings on white architects' mylar</td></tr>
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Cully spends her winters in Texas, so we will resume our friendship in the Spring, I hope. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">PAM and Sculptmall in downtown Portland </td></tr>
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Together we took public
transportation to the landscape show, <b><i>Seeing Nature</i></b>, at <a href="http://portlandartmuseum.org/">The Portland Art Museum </a>downtown. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My favorite painting in the nature show at PAM by local artist, Shirley Wolf</td></tr>
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I was in heaven, surrounded by contemporary paintings and a very funky, room installation of fruit-themed wallpaper designed by <span style="color: #262626;">David
Burns and Austin Young entitled </span><b><i><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 13.0pt;">Paradise:
Fallen Fruit</span></i></b><br />
<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">with artworks on the walls and sculpture selected by the two artists from the museum's collection.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My daughter Ayla and grandson Henry in front of the Paradise: Fallen Fruit wallpaper installation with NW Native American masks </td></tr>
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3. The
next weekend my daughter Ayla and grandson Henry returned with me to PAM for
Portland’s annual <b><i><a href="http://www.literary-arts.org/what-we-do/wordstock/">Wordstock</a></i></b>, a 2-day book festival with author readings and workshops
for kids and adults.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Ayla and Henry at PAM in Kenny Scharf’s 1980’s “</span><span style="color: #262626; text-align: start;">post-apocalyptic”</span><span style="color: #262626; text-align: start;">, </span><span style="color: #262626; text-align: start;">disco-</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">throbbing room installation, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cosmic Cavern</i></b>.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Henry Adams painting in Cecelia's studio</td></tr>
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4. On
the home front, Henry and I are painting crazy colors over an old painting of
mine. He loves mixing colors and covering the surface with brushstroke jabs and
streaks. It’s washable paint, so I say, “fire-away!”</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">5.
This week I peeked through the window of a cool cubby of a space called <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://goodpdx.com/">Good: A Gallery</a></b> on N. Mississippi
Avenue in my neighborhood. I got excited. </span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">It was filled with excellent bronze
sculptures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, I’m too late.
A couple living next door told me the space has permanently closed and the pieces inside are the work of the owner. </span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Further
along N. Mississippi I went inside the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fresh
Pot</b> coffee shop. Like so many cafés, they offer wall-space for artwork,
like these black and white drawings on paper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">I worry about ageism and lack
of contacts in a big city full of young talent. In the past I discovered that
being new in art meant being “young and emerging” or “mid-career”. Old and
emerging artist seems an oxymoron. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Ignore
that last comment, people, it’s just my worry-mind trying to erase the fun I
have in painting!) <o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">6. Portland holds First Friday and some First Thursday gallery “art hops”. Former
Atlantan and artist-participant in my <a href="http://handtohandproject.com/index.html">Hand to Hand Project</a>, Harold McNaron now
lives in Portland and has invited me on Facebook to view a 2-person show he is
in, on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/675876035888345/">First Friday March 4<sup>th</sup> </a>at <a href="http://www.12x16gallery.com/">12x16 Gallery</a>. Yay. I’m getting
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My sunny studio</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Storage loft for paintings</td></tr>
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7. Meanwhile.
I’ve set up my studio in my cute little house. It’s actually very ample with
loft space for storing artwork, a long wall, space for my worktable and lots of
natural light and ceiling fixtures. I just finished a revision to my last oil
painting in my series “Becoming a Tree”, initially completed just before I left
Peacham Vermont. I added giant falling pinecones that please me. I gathered
samples from my Portland neighborhood walk route where evergreens are abundant.
Like me, this painting is blending the old and the new–a Vermont spruce with
Portland seed-carriers.</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Dearest
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">I’m two
and a half months now in Portland. During this time, I’ve been sticking my toes
in a few Sunday ponds testing the spiritual waters around my neighborhood. I’m
a pilgrim on a path through life seeking transcendence. I was raised Irish
Catholic and I still strongly identify with that heritage. A beautiful Catholic
Church is a comfortable, familiar place, but I have trouble accepting many of
the supernatural aspects of religion. I like ritual and a community of
like-minded souls gathered to share values of compassion, and social justice.
I’m committed to helping my neighbor and being kind. This is hard to do alone.
(Hard to do–period!) In Vermont last year, I discovered the “Awe” of wild
nature–the animals, mountains, weather, sky, water, and especially the trees. I
could almost see that these natural, silent things stood in front of a vast
“something” that underpins the cosmos. Words fail.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">It’s
more difficult in the city to see beyond the buildings, artificial light and
human sounds to experience Nature’s transcendence. But here’s my path so far in
order of spiritual preference. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Center</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">, is a
non-profit Catholic storefront charity located in a low-income area near my home. I’m
excited about this place and the Encorps program for seniors committed to
social and ecological justice. JV Encorps is a program that I want to apply for
this Spring. It offers to a select group each year opportunities for community
service, and retreats for community and spiritual formation. More to come on
that I hope…<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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through my artwork. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">My painting series
“Becoming a Tree”</b> explores my connection to wild nature and trees as
portals to deeper understanding of my place in the universe. I have resumed
this body of work.</span></div>
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is a short drive from home, located in a classic brick former public library,
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This is also a comfortable space for me. Shambhala is a
network of Westernized Tibetan Buddhist centers in the USA and worldwide. I was
a member of the Decatur GA and St Johnsbury VT Shambhala Centers. I like a
meditative community that believes in humanity’s basic goodness, and the
ability for world change through kindness and compassion. I do not believe in re-incarnation, but that does not seem to be a deal breaker in attending. I‘ve found peace through meditation and
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Church</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> is an easy
walk from my home. It’s a beautiful American style gothic edifice and a
welcoming congregation. Inside, the old and new blend in an open plan with
plenty of lay involvement in the mass.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">I especially like St. Andrew's dedication to
social justice and Hispanic (neighborhood) inclusivity. St. Andrew’s offers support
groups for women, for transgender, gay, and same sex couples. The congregation
aligns itself with Pope Francis’ emphasis on serving the poor. This is right up
my alley. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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ritual around the holidays of reading </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Robert Frost’s poem,</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> “The Road Not Taken”</b>. I find a depth of meaning in this poem–a nugget of wisdom and simplicity. Frost lived in Ripton, Vermont, not far from
Rutland where I spent a lot of my childhood and adolescence. Reading this poem,
I imagine Vermont woodlands, snow, forested mountain roads and the Yankee
ethos of rustic, simple living close to the land. I read it quietly these days.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">#6. The Center for Spiritual
Living</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">- This
is an interesting nation-wide religious organization that believes in God, but not in Jesus’ divinity–only Jesus as an important
spiritual teacher. I attended a service last Sunday that included a homily,
music, singing and meditative prayer. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wall of religious tolerance at Center for Spiritual Living</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgomLMUFw7hOU6EjSxv7wXeHK_dDGYP-k5Gw1ns4VabnKAUsJMX86Wu6ZFfIm1rXSmSmhC-QI7_ukibVYzh_IqdD__tCPzc5RT2iRYH2fb8_WhwbhSBCWumdosI6R_6xRdGmdLzjwWwOPg/s1600/Nancy_welcomer-and-Practitioner-at-Center-for-Spiritual-Living_Portland-OR_1.3.2016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgomLMUFw7hOU6EjSxv7wXeHK_dDGYP-k5Gw1ns4VabnKAUsJMX86Wu6ZFfIm1rXSmSmhC-QI7_ukibVYzh_IqdD__tCPzc5RT2iRYH2fb8_WhwbhSBCWumdosI6R_6xRdGmdLzjwWwOPg/s400/Nancy_welcomer-and-Practitioner-at-Center-for-Spiritual-Living_Portland-OR_1.3.2016.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nancy–Greeter and Practitioner at Center for Spiritual Living</td></tr>
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Advanced “Practitioners” like Nancy above, are available for spiritual counseling. It felt like a Unitarian Church service
attended by educated liberals seeking to do good deeds and have a community.
Nice people, but not my kind of spirituality---too dry I guess is the word. They follow the teachings of their founder, Ernest Holmes who wrote the book,”The
Science of Mind”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I haven’ t read it,
but I’m leery of science-based religious groups that have one venerated leader.
I may be a hypocrite here, since I like Pope Francis, a former scientist and venerated leader.<br />
<br />
In the old days as a Catholic child, choosing a religious base was easy. You were Catholic, so you attended your neighborhood parish where you found moral answers, community and often a school.<br />
<br />
One thing I do know–the birth of all of my grandchildren and most recently the birth of Iva Mae Hazel Ercin on December 27th here in Portland have all been awesome, transcendent and spiritual experiences for me.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Welcome to this amazing world dear Iva Mae Hazel Ercin</td></tr>
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Cecelia Kanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403373465333657007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3254734458882696242.post-64745079395745222992015-12-20T21:34:00.000-05:002015-12-20T21:34:42.893-05:00CHAPTER THREE-GETTING THE GEAR<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">6:00 pm
Pacific Time. Portland OR_12.20.2015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm soaked after a rainy walk to and from the supermarket</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Dearest Readers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Fall
and Winter in Portland means almost daily rain and more rain, again and again.
I was warned, but I didn’t really believe it. That’s me in the picture above walking
back from the supermarket–drenched–in my London Fog trench coat with not enough
fabric water repellant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes the
rain is just a gentle mist. At other times there’s a downpour for an hour, or a
nice drip-drop under a passing black cloud. We’ve had a few days of solid
precip that created puddles like ponds, that kids slopped through at a local
park I attended with grandson Henry. Three Moms looked on, comforted I guess by
the fact that all the children were protected by tall rubber boots, rain
jackets and hoods. Everyone appears prepared for, or impervious to the
dampness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Preschoolers,
decked out in slickers with hoods are undaunted by rain on a class outing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kids probably from Albina Head Start on an outing along NE Skidmore St.</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Landscapers
at my neighbor’s house are doing major terrain shifting in the mud and rain. If
they stayed home on rainy days they’d be out of business.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Landscapers from Grass Stains take a break to smile for my camera</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Bikers
in Portland are ubiquitous rain or shine, with head protection or without.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">I
equate it to the can-do snow travel attitude in Vermont. Schools and businesses
up there are generally open no matter how much snow has fallen. Roads are quickly plowed
and people use good snow tires to keep themselves mobile. </span>Likewise,
people in Portland keep themselves dry and on the move with the proper clothing.</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">My
daughter Ayla bought me a waterproof rain shell with a hood that can be quickly
flipped up or down whenever the rain starts or stops. This eliminates the need
for carrying an umbrella. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wearing my rain shell for a selfie in my bathroom </td></tr>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Joel
lent me his rain pants for walking or exercising outdoors. (My jeans were
always getting soaked during walks). </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Much needed rain pants for long walks in the rain</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Even my dog Etta now has a lightweight yellow rain slicker with
hood. She no longer resembles a drowned rat after a rainy walk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Etta in my studio in her new rain gear</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Everywhere
I go the natives know how to deal with the climate. I listen well and this
makes life so much easier.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scotch-Gard is my friend</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">There's beauty in all of this volatility. The clouds will part, revealing blue sky and sun, or a glorious sunset after a downpour. A fresh batch of ominous clouds may rumble in with rain again, followed by a solid low ceiling of leaden whiteness overhead. Local weather seems fickle, and randomly dependent on which street you live on at what moment in time. </span>Quite an experience!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A clearing of clouds at dusk on NE Rodney Avenue_Portland OR</td></tr>
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Cecelia Kanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403373465333657007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3254734458882696242.post-70537152447072435662015-12-14T12:20:00.000-05:002015-12-14T12:20:01.136-05:00CHAPTER TWO-FINDING A COFFEE SHOP<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sierra my barista and the gluten-free bakery behind her</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">9:am
Pacific Time. Portland OR_12.14.2015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Dearest
Readers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>#1. Meet
Sierra, the barista at TULA </b>my favorite NE Portland neighborhood coffee shop, serving
all gluten-free luscious pastries and earthy coffees. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> It's sunny, welcoming and fresh inside. </span>An excellent local coffee shop and cafe was
top priority on my list of places and services to find…and Portland does not
disappoint!</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">I
found three other cafes nearby that served great brew, listed here in order of
best to least favorite, but all excellent and within a 15 minute walk from
home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Albina Press_N Albina Ave, Portland </td></tr>
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<b>#2: The Albina Press</b>–Great brew, and nice pastries, but nothing that was gluten free on the days I went there. (I’m
not allergic, but I’ve found lately that ingesting wheat makes my tummy swell.
I’m a bread addict, so this discovery is painful.) The Albina Press has nice
outdoor benches with tiny built in coffee rests and a cozy interior with art
shows on the walls–</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Albina Press inside-warm and comfortable</td></tr>
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<b>but the recorded music is too loud</b>. It always drives me
outdoors, even on rainy days. </div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Albina-Press-Coffeehouse/152791121399765">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Albina-Press-Coffeehouse/152791121399765</a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ristretto Roasters on N Williams Avenue, Portland_Grandson Henry's hand on Dad's lap </td></tr>
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<b>#3:
Ristretto Roasters</b>–Excellent, excellent coffee, but no gluten free items available the days I went there. The
space is slick, sunny and swank. Maybe a little too open and hard edged for
me---The atmosphere strikes me as industrial-modern and expensive, but serving delicious
joe.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://ristrettoroasters.com/">http://ristrettoroasters.com</a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Extract Coffee Roasters_NE Prescott Ave, Portland</td></tr>
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<b>#4:
Extracto</b>-Excellent coffee, but a long wait for it, and loud music. All
coffee at Extracto is a “pour-over”, which means they individually prepare a
single drip cup of coffee for you. In my case, it’s a decaf Americano. </div>
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I’m establishing my new life in Portland by finding anchors, and navigating the neighborhood on foot and in my car, scouting out essential stores and service providers–like a vet for Etta (my aging pooch), a hairdresser for me, a spiritual community, a bank, a drug store, a daily exercise regimen, an artist center, and a nearby supermarket that I can walk to. I’ve zeroed in on most of these. More exploration adventures to come.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The best...and so close to home!</td></tr>
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Cecelia Kanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403373465333657007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3254734458882696242.post-6326811946457923762015-12-03T21:03:00.000-05:002015-12-03T21:03:11.170-05:00CHAPTER ONE – MAKING IT ALL FIT<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm thrilled to present to you the freakin' Empty POD!</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><i>6:00pm
Pacific Time. Portland OR_12.3.2015</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Dearest
Readers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">I’ve
done it! Slowly emptied my giant POD of furniture into my little house in
Portland (with help of course).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Ark of My Possessions landed in Portland</span></td></tr>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">My
furniture arrived from Atlanta about two weeks ago in the biggest POD unit
available. It looked like an ark ran aground in the driveway, packed to the yardarms
with at least two of everything in my world. Today the POD man hoisted it up
and took the empty shell away. This is a milestone in my change of place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">POD Man hoists the empty ark</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">And takes her away!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">For
years I’ve claimed to want to live simply, but this time the rubber hit the
road, and I really did have to downsize from a 960 sq. ft. Georgia condo, to
my lovely 496 sq. ft. tiny house in Portland Oregon–a reconfigured, redesigned
two-car garage adjacent to my daughter Ayla and her partner’s home. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Half-way through moving in, the house is full and the POD is still 1/2 full<br /></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: start;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">It’s been a challenge sorting through all my boxes and bins of “must haves”, and constructing piles of stuff to donate, keep, or ditch. This is just a corner of the studio before the giveaways:</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Some
boxes still remain in the house to be unloaded, but I know where things will
go. It’s a bit of a jigsaw puzzle, but I’m relieved and unburdened. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">At
some future date more accumulations from my mother’s, and my life will need to
be jettisoned, but I can move around in my house now, do Tai Chi and dance in
the studio, entertain little Henry, (my grandson), Ayla and Joel, and readily
retrieve what I have put away at a moment’s notice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Creating
my nest and studio space was step one in feeling at home. Check!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cute isn't she? Kitchen on the left, Living Rm/Studio on right. Bedroom behind the kitchen, bathroom and closet behind the studio. Big loft for storing paintings above the kitchen</td></tr>
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Cecelia Kanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403373465333657007noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3254734458882696242.post-90178271022439587912015-11-08T20:27:00.000-05:002015-11-08T20:27:57.498-05:00CROSSING OVER<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Through my windshield driving down into the Continental Divide Basin desert</td></tr>
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Dearest
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">My
journey West is done. I’m here in Portland two weeks now, but I must relate a
turning point before I plunge into stories of my new life and new city.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">There
was a moment on my trip when I felt I had reached a crossing over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seemed sacred and momentous, as though I
had driven through a doorway into a wide new reality. Something inside my Self
stirred when I crossed the Continental Divide seven miles outside Rawlins Wyoming,
and dove down into the Great Continental Divide Basin. I wrote about it in my
travel blog on Day 7. </span><a href="http://interwovenheart.blogspot.com/2015/10/day-8peacham-to-portlandogden-utah.html"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">http://interwovenheart.blogspot.com/2015/10/day-8peacham-to-portlandogden-utah.html</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">The
desert is not a welcoming landscape, but it offers deliverance. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ask any of the early Christian “Desert
Fathers”, or our own Henry David Thoreau who used isolation in nature to find
the essence of the self. (Thoreau’s <u><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Walden-Anniversary-Illustrated-American-Classic/dp/0618457178/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1446826516&sr=1-4&keywords=on+walden+pond+henry+david+thoreau">Walden,</a></u> an experiment in living
deliberately alone in the woods, exerted a big influence on me.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">The
desert surrounds – flat, exposed, dusty. The Rockies shimmered that day, faintly blue and tantalizing on the far horizon. I was my own Moses on the mountaintop
glimpsing the future. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rawlins WY roughnecks' pickups wait to start the day in the oil fields</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Before
dawn that morning I walked out of my hotel in Rawlins, Wyoming surrounded by a
dense cold fog. Pickups in the parking lot created fuzzy pools of headlights,
waiting for the “roughnecks” inside to finish their big breakfasts and head out
to the oil fields for their day of dirty and dangerous work. It was another world.
Me and my little dog were the outsiders. Yet we were a part of it all. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">I
began to remember my dreams for the first time in over ten years.
In dream number 1, I am athletic, pioneering, and the originator of a big idea
to organize and find financing for the colossal task of building a bike route
for women across the USA from Miami to Seattle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The second
night I discover a new planet in the sky. I see the entire round shape, and can
discern the intricate detail of patches of sagebrush growing all over its surface.
These dreams are vivid, memorable and more continue each night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me in the creative spirit in my new bedroom (wonderful window shade behind).</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">The
imaginative self is bursting inside my unremarkable body-self. I sense a
wellspring bubbling within that will be the source of different ideas for
creative artworks. Right now all I can do is open my eyes, and that is not
hard. Whatever this new direction will be, I feel very attuned to this place
and time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Strange seed spinners on a vine (or droopy bush)</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">So
much has changed around me. The flowers, trees and bushes delight me in the odd
shapes of unfamiliar species. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dark-eyed Junco-"Oregon Junco"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Western Scrub Jay-Jreeeet! (rising)</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Western variants of juncos, chickadees and jays fly with
familiar crows and sparrows. </span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">I bought Stokes Field Guide to Birds Western
Region in New Seasons Natural Market yesterday. Can’t wait to use it. </span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Coffee shops
brew outstanding coffee, but none so far offer a regular cup of decaf. I know
now to order a decaf Americano that they create on the spot. (more expensive
however). I’m meeting neighbors and learning all about my grandson Henry, and
the wonderful lives of my daughter Ayla and her partner Joel. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Henry next to his artwork in my new studio</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coming into Portland on I-84 on the old Oregon Train merged with the Lewis and Clark Trail</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Attendant Alex pumps my gas_self-serve is against the law in Oregon!</td></tr>
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Ta-Da! After a final fill-up in Pendleton Oregon, I arrived in Portland at last, driving yesterday into town in a driving rain. I'm still in bed today at 10:30....I need the rest.<br />
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Here are two final photos. one of me with my daughter, Ayla (Joel is taking the picture) and one of my grandson Henry and I in my new apartment...a former 2-car garage converted beautifully into my new place.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ayla, Cecelia and traveling frog, Wai, in my apt. in Portland OR</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cecelia and Henry in Portland Oregon on Sunday afternoon_10.25.2015</td></tr>
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Thanks to all for coming along for the ride!Cecelia Kanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403373465333657007noreply@blogger.com0