Great Blossoming
Item
- Title
- Great Blossoming
- Alternative Title
- Great Blossoming
- Creator
- Karen Blessen
- Date
- 2020
- Description
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'- The page is divided into two sections.
- The left side contains handwritten notes in red ink, including questions and advice.
- The right side includes a book cover titled "Lives Like Loaded Guns" by Lyndall Gordon, a poem, and more handwritten notes.
- There is a small piece of paper with a poem titled "Adrift! A little boat adrift!" by Emily Dickinson. - Dates Completed
- Feb 17, 2020 - March 29, 2020
- Keywords
- Great Blossoming; 29 Pieces; Origin story; 15-year anniversary; Covid-19 pandemic; Ankle replacement; Lockdown; Seeds; Garden metaphors; Shitstorm; Lotus blossom; Viral spread; Human care; Kelly’s surgery; Pandemic awareness; Lincoln NE; UNL library project; Frustrations; Phoebe Little; Yale admission; Shelley Thornton; Weeds; Coronavirus genome; Darkness; Recalibration; Post-surgery care; Joy of reading; Lynda II Gordon; Emily Dickinson biography; Lockdown struggles; Daily walks; Neighborhood photography; Grey days; Meditation group; Artistic survival tips; Vision and ethics; End of normal life; Growth cycle; Pandemic virus; Strength components; Tribal identity; National identity; Art from past pandemics; Human contact; Compassion; Sources of inspiration; Hilma af Klimt; Spiritual inspiration; The volcano blew
- Transcription
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#### Left Side:
- How do I capitalize on what I have?
- Develop a relationship with the person who signed this letter.
- Who can I approach?
- Who has the resources?
- Who believes in me?
- Who do I want to go on this ride with me?
- Do your homework on the person you are approaching.
- What does every person want to talk about more than anything else?
- Themselves.
#### Right Side:
- March 28, 2020
- The local lockdown parallels our lockdown. The ankle here for Kelly's recuperation. The ankle is healing. So far so good.
- What defines this time—domestically—quotidian nationally—globally—artistically—journals, Emily Dickinson.
- Lives Like Loaded Guns
- Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
- Lyndall Gordon
- A Duff Cooper Prize Finalist
- The poem itself has 'no power to die'—it's an immortal power, wielded by a killer eye and thumb, that is the control art imposes on the ephemeral, the mortal, passing across its field of vision.
- Avoid making enemies.
- My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - In Corners - till a Day The Owner passed - identified - And carried Me away -
- And now We roam in Sovereign Woods - And now We hunt the Doe - And every time I speak for Him The Mountains straight reply -
- And do I smile, such cordial light Opon the Valley glow - It is as a Vesuvian face Had let it's pleasure through -
- And when at Night - Our good Day done - I guard My Master's Head - 'Tis better than the Eider Duck's Deep Pillow - to have shared -
- To foe of His - I'm deadly foe - None stir the second time - On whom I lay a Yellow Eye - Or an emphatic Thumb -
- Though I than He - may longer live He longer must - than I - For I have but the power to kill, Without - the power to die - - Rights
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