Interim Tangled Wires_005

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A scrapbook page featuring handwritten text, a photograph of a fiery sunset, and various decorative elements.

Title: Interim Tangled Wires_005
Alternative Title: Interim Tangled Wires and a Woodpecker on a Steel Pole
Creator: Karen Blessen
Date: 2020
Description: The page is divided into two sections. On the left, there is a handwritten text with a personal and introspective tone, adorned with floral and butterfly doodles. On the right, there is a photograph of a vibrant sunset with a fiery orange and yellow sky, trees in the foreground, and a few small, colorful stickers scattered around. The top of the page has a small, orange, and white structure with the word "PARKS" written on it.
Identifier: 003_070620-081620_interim_tangled_wires
Dates Completed: July 6, 2020 - August 16, 2020
Keywords: Tangled wires; Woodpecker; Trees; Beauty; Destruction of nature; Parent-child responsibilities; Let Me Walk in Beauty; Lakota Sioux; Chief Yellow Lark; Public Parks; Trust for Public Land; Creative process; Flowers; Loss; Black veil collage; Covid-19; Candy Dickenson Becher; Drop metaphor; Gretchen Dykstra; Double mastectomy; Dream of parents; Breast cancer; God laughs at plans; 29 Pieces planning; Cardinals; Cardinal collages; Sibyl Dana Reynolds; Institutional breakdowns; BLM; BLM collage; Parental meditations; Potatoes and pride; Life stages; Gretchen’s kimono; Friendships; Past and present; Neighbor tree dispute; Manifest or dissolve; Contagious grace; Commodification of beauty
Transcription: to hear your voice
make me wise so that I
may understand the things
you have taught my people
Let me learn the lessons
you have hidden in every
leaf and rock
I seek strength not to
be greater than my sister
but to fight my greatest
enemy - myself
Make me always
ready to come to you
with clean hands and
straight eyes
so that when life
fades as the fading
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Is Part Of: Interim Tangled Wires and a Woodpecker on a Steel Pole
Relation: Image Gallery