We all are story
Shaped by our past, what we are
Listen, you will hear.
Art Prescription: The shear act of listening is an art. In our push a button hyped up world of texting and immediate gratification, do we really take the time to listen to others? I love my gadgets… and I also love slowing down at the farm with the horses. Really nice.
Alone in garden
She bends and grows, taking her
Place in the big world.
Art Prescription: Each bloom brave and important.
Patience a virtue
Wait for my trust and I will
Let you pet my head.
Art Prescription: A year and a half of trying to help care-take a stray cat with my neighbor. And today he let me pet his head.
Index card with colored pencil:
Life is a pole vault
Jump as high as you can, and
Careful where you land.
Art Prescription: Life is busy. We need to conserve our “pole vaulting” energy for when the going gets rough. On a daily basis it’s best to take small, manageable jumps, ones we can succeed.
Colored pencil on index cards:
Red gerber daisies
Highlight in August garden
Truly late bloomers.
Art Prescription: And that’s okay. Better to bloom late than not at all.
Colored pencil on index card:
Squeezed, rushing with time
She reached for the sun, her hope
To burst into bloom.
Art Prescription: Days of racing with the clock does not do the human body much good. We all want to bloom our best right? The days are long and making time to walk in nature or go visit Finn helps me slow down take some deep breaths.
Alcohol ink on photo paper:
Tangle of flowers
Deep in the field where sunlight
Plays on soft petals.
Art Prescription: What a fun time I had today playing with alcohol inks with my art group! Thank you Farley, who hosted and provided all the new and fun supplies to experiment with. We used photo paper, alcohol, and alcohol inks. For an hour or more there was not a sound except for a, “wow.” We dripped, sprayed, doodled, and watched as our works took on a life of their own. Not for the exact of heart! Alcohol inks are discovery at its best!! A great tool to have in your Art Prescription cabinet.
Alcohol ink on photo paper:
At the gates of fall
Thousands of Queen Anne’s Lace seeds
Await departure.
Art Prescription: Hike at Mason Farm…fall is making her way in. Lots of wildflowers have gone to seed. And so the life-cycle continues.
Index card with pen and ink and colored pencil.
From atop her perch
Sharp eyed, she supervises
The harvest of corn.
Art Prescription: Perhaps the ScareCrow is gone and it’s feast time.
Vines grew and wound up
Anything they could find to
Help them meet the sun.
Art Prescription: Busy, busy RN day…needed a little dose of Art Prescription for myself.
College and pen and ink on index card.
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