Interim Tangled Wires_026
Item
- Title
- Interim Tangled Wires_026
- Alternative Title
- Interim Tangled Wires and a Woodpecker on a Steel Pole
- Creator
- Karen Blessen
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- The image shows an open journal with handwritten text on both pages. The left page features a photograph of a man in a field, with handwritten notes below it. The right page contains more handwritten text, with a small image of a red cardinal at the top. The journal has a spiral binding and appears to be part of a scrapbook or memory book, with various cut-out pieces and a small piece of wood at the top of the left page.
- 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:
I REMEMBER THIS SUMMER DAY IN COLUMBUS - DO YOU?
WE WERE AT JOHN PENSICK'S
FARM - NOW A MINT PRODUCING VEGGIE GARDEN
11/7/1974
DAD AT JOHN
PENSICK'S GARDEN
It was around 1975 I'd come to visit
From Lincoln. You asked me to come to Johnny
EMS with you. We got
there and John needed
help planting potatoes.
I dug in and helped
for quite a while.
You said you were proud
of the way I helped.
The only time you
ever expressed pride in me.
Right Page:
to be discontinued. She
can't eat any fresh
produce. In both cases, I listened,
held their feelings, and
tried to make them
laugh.
With Gretchen, it comes
easily. Acknowledge the
pain. Try to help to see
strategies through it.
Begin telling funny stories,
or together, make fun
of Donald Trump and
Giuliani. Begin to paint
a picture of the chapters
ahead.
With Lorraine, it's
different. My confidence
in her recovery is weaker,
but one never knows. - 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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