Haiku August 7, 2012 Life Paths

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Life is a long path

Times the woods are dark and deep

Times sun lights the way.

Art Prescription:  The long hot summer may be getting to me a bit. I miss being able to spend extended hours outside sketching. Between the heat and the mosquitoes, I feel a little isolated inside. I’d rather be outside in nature than anywhere!! My studio is nice and air-conditioned, but sketching from life gives me a sense of renewal and vigor. I’m looking forward to three upcoming Art Prescription workshops. The first one is August 25 at the UNC Wellness Center where we will play with pen and ink and expressive painting!! Next October 20 at the NC Botanical Gardens – Expressive painting fall trees. Hope you can make one!! Call me or email if you have any questions 919 608-0247 You don’t have to be a member at the Wellness Center to participate.

Haiku August 6, 2012 Cosmo

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Dear orange cosmo

I waited for you to bloom.

Is this a weed? WAIT!

Art Prescription:   I planted Cosmo seeds a month or so ago. These were seeds that I gathered and saved from my neighbor’s end of the season garden last fall. Out of a bunch, one tall leafy plant did rise, but up until yesterday I wasn’t sure if it was indeed a Cosmo or a weed. Patience paid off. Now I have multiple orange blossoms blooming next to my purple cone flower. ASAP…I will go out and sketch them.

Haiku August 3, 2012 Operating Room I

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They all stood in blue

Cold steel scattered cross table

Heart-beat is steady.

Art Prescription:  A little different haiku today, one I wrote while in the surgical suite this morning. Thought I’d share a bit about my left-brain job. I work part-time as a nurse in OMFS or Oral Maxillofacial Surgery. After the surgeons and surgical assistants scrub in, they all put on sterile blue gowns. These gowns are paper and discarded after each surgery. The patient is draped and bundled until all you see is the part that’s gonna get worked on – today being a mandible (lower jaw). So envision a huddle of blue figures standing along with a couple of trays filled with assorted surgical instruments, drills, clips, gauze, suture, wires, tubes, suction, etc….and the steady sound of the patient’s heart beating rhythmically.

Haiku August 2, 2012 Perspective – Cats

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Meow greets you home

Herd up the stairs for dinner

Cold nose, make biscuits.

Art Prescription:  We have three cats…we fostered a family of felines. Adopted two out! Kept the mother and two kittens. They are adults now each with distinctive personalities. They are entertaining and lovey! I might have been meant to live on a farm. If I could I’d have lots of other animals…a couple of dogs…chickens for eggs…goats…Always fantasized about getting up at four in the morning to feed livestock…this is where you hear the record scratch!  Do you have a life-style that you fantasize about? tell it!

Haiku August 1, 2012 Perspective

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Perspective and bulls

Choose to run fast with the bulls?

Know you might get gored!

Art Prescription:  The reason people choose to run each year with the bulls is multifaceted. Most get high off the challenge, knowing that with one mistake they might be up a fence or worse injured. Humans? Why? On the other hand, get out of the way of bulls, cause they are charging and they mean it!! Run…fast!!! It seems unlike the Olympics where timing is everything, this race is about outsmarting the bull! which takes intellect versus power! “Toro” “Toro”

Haiku July 31, 2012 Prelude to fall

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Crickets prelude fall

Cloudy cooler,  subtle shifts

Goodbye hot July.

Art Prescription:  Another July come and gone. We have many summery days left here in NC, actually on through September. But there are subtle changes that I welcome.  Use all your senses to pick up on a change in the light, changes in bird behavior, changes in the cricket’s hum. Be present…notice.

July 30, 2012 Purpose

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Path, purpose, life force

Resilience, forward track

Find the it right now.

Art Prescription:  Picked my “Backyard Bouquet” painting up today from the framer. Makes me so happy!! Everything in life needs a frame!

Haiku July 29, 2012 Melting Pot

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Red curry, basil,

Home-grown peppers, tomatoes

Bok-choy and pasta!

Art Prescription:  A bag of home-grown peppers came my way today. A hot day calls for a spicy dinner. Took what I had in the fridge, fresh farmer’s market tomatoes and basil from my garden, to make a dish with Thai red curry. Maybe should have seeded the peppers not knowing their “heat” value. Threw in some tofu and yum…I’m hungry! Experimenting in the kitchen is art too!