Interim Tangled Wires_013
Item
- Title
- Interim Tangled Wires_013
- Alternative Title
- Interim Tangled Wires and a Woodpecker on a Steel Pole
- Creator
- Karen Blessen
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- The image shows an open spiral-bound notebook with handwritten text on both pages. The left page contains a longer, more reflective passage, while the right page has shorter, more concise notes. The top of the right page has the word "PARENTS" written in colorful cut-out letters. The text appears to be in a casual, cursive script, and there are no visible art or doodles other than the text itself.
- 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
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Left Page:
This could be hard for Candy. It's always hard. They can teach other party mild every day.
These people who are part of our lives. We meet them. And we all move on.
We all must prepare for the moment when this whole life—the relationships, the loves, the beauty, the striving, the sorrow—all coalesce. And we once again become the drop that we are.
Right Page:
Joining once again with the ocean.
Tuesday, Gretchen has a double mastectomy at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. The friends are standing up to help, give support, bring food, make her laugh.
She cannot die from this. The prognosis is very positive as I understand it.
Gretchen may be underestimating her recovery. In her words—she acts as though it... - Rights
- To inquire about usage, please contact Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. These images are for educational use only. Not all images are available for publication.
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