It’s not what you are

So much as what you are not

At this time in space.

Art Prescription: Sometimes it’s helpful to think about all the things we put into our lives that we really don’t enjoy. We do it for a variety of reasons, our own expectations or trying to please others.  What if for some period of time we could just be who we are, authentic and real? Write a poem or haiku about this. I’d love to hear your haiku!! send them to me at http://www.bev@beverlydyer.com or post here.

Materialize

Dream. Teach me what I need to

Share with intention.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Art Prescription: Dance to your own music. Do you know how to listen? Can you hear the melody? Listen louder…

Working on The Art Prescription Kit!! My neighbor Jane Schroeder who is a photographer came over today to take some action shots. Like each new project there will be many kinks to work out, but it was fun playing with Art Prescription ideas and fumbling around with a few that just didn’t work. My haiku today comes from one of the nature projects:  Take a walk and pick up 3 things from nature. Sketch and/or journal.

Purple blue pansies

And green vinca grow while sweet

Gum balls litter earth.

 

Cloudy, yawn, bummer

The full moon hides behind cold

Still my spell is cast.

 

I started writing a haiku a day on January 5th. And because I want to have a sense of full circle, I’m backtracking with 4 haikus. So at the end of 2012 I’ll have 325 haikus!!

Haiku January 1

Spring comes creeping in

Like a cat sneaking up on

Winter’s cool grey skies.

Haiku January 2

I love the way these

Wood floors creak waking up my

Early morning house.

Haiku January 3

Candy cotton pink

Chases the sun down while birds

Sing twilight ballads.

Haiku January 4

The bushy squirrels

Did squeak and squawk until they

Met soft nose to nose.

 

Art Prescription: Sometimes you need to go full circle! Now I feel complete to continue.

To change is to move

Forward one step at a time

Leave behind the void.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is a collage I started today. Right now it’s too busy and I’m struggling with scraping it, which means painting over it completely, or walking away and getting a fresh perspective tomorrow.

Art Prescription: Change is hard. Sometimes we don’t know what we need to change in our lives. Often we get subtle clues and if we choose to pay attention we can move forward. Did you make a new year’s resolution? How’s it going?

Alone I stand here

With all the smiling faces

Longing for routine

Cold nose comfort and

Biscuit making purring fill

The tired, empty.

 

Five days into the new year, and I’d like to start some sort of create-a-day venture. I enjoyed my Tree-A-Day holiday countdown, and my trees were featured in several Etsy Treasuries. Of late both Sam and I have been writing haikus and leaving them for each other at night and in the morning.

I know a lot of my friends like to write haikus, so if the well is dry I’d like to feature guest writers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Painted Sky

Fragile is a day

Sun slips bashful glow pink red

Moon boasting yellow

(bev)

Sam’s haiku

Moon shining brightly

In the midnight blue sky of

Cool  January.

I’m working diligently on the “Art Prescription Kit.” This seems like a good exercise to add!

Art Prescription: Take a walk at dusk. Admire the sky as the sun goes down and the moon comes up. Write about it…a haiku or any other feelings this evokes.

 

 

To celebrate Christmas Day 2011 I’d like to share some of my favorite quotes that reflect the spirit of Christmas past, present, and future. Peace and joy to you!

“For each one of us, there is a desert to travel. A star to discover. And a being within ourselves to bring to life.”

-Author Unknown

“There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

-Edith Wharton

“The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind. The answer is blowin’ in the wind.”

-Bod Dylan

 

“Sometimes, if you aren’t sure about something, you have to just jump off the bridge and grow wings on your way down”

-Danielle Steel

“At Christmas I no more desire a rose than wish a snow in May’s newfangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.”

-William Shakespeare

“Opinion is a flitting thing, But Truth, outlasts the Sun – If then we cannot own them both- Possess the oldest one-”

-Emily Dickinson

“O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!”

-Edna St. Vincent Millay

Art Prescription: “Let It Be.”

-John Lennon