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Karen Blessen Journals

Interim Tangled Wires_065

Item

A journal page featuring a photograph and handwritten notes.
Title
Interim Tangled Wires_065
Alternative Title
Interim Tangled Wires and a Woodpecker on a Steel Pole
Creator
Karen Blessen
Date
2020
Description
The image shows a journal page with a photograph of a tree-lined path labeled "View From the house" on a piece of paper taped to the left side. The right side of the page contains handwritten notes discussing spiritual and meditative practices, with references to "29 Piers" and "quiet calls." The top of the page has a small, torn piece of paper with a yellowish hue.
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
By 'dissolving' I invisibly + silently extend my spirit out into the world. Like a 'contagious grace.' A radiance on breakout to quote some of the pieces 29 Writing from the 29 Piers.
Though meditation, prayer, quiet connections in a Jain 29 pieces - with teachers, project managers, actions + real change become possible then realities.
Examples:
Meditation
Prayer
Quiet calls
Connective tissue between positive forces
Mr. 29 Piers - friends - teachers - a circuitry
Rights
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