See you space cowboy.

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Sometimes camera photos turn out alright.....

This was Lucho Libro at the Indianapolis Public Library.  Why do I bring you a luchadore leaping above the floor?  Because it was led by Eduardo Luna! I am co-curating the 10th East Art Hub for the Summer Fellowship!!!!  More info coming soon my friends..

Learn about the fellowship HERE--> https://www.10eastarts.org/curatorial-fellowship

Learn more about Eduardo here--> https://www.ynpnindy.org/blog_interview_series_eduardo_luna

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Teavenings Day 4:

Tonight I needed to relax. I missed another art exhibition date by a few hours, my boss got mad at me for having a social media idea....the day did not want to go my way.  So I felt it was time to use a tea that I had been holding onto for a night I truly needed calming.  I was very lucky to once vendor right next to Amy the owner of Rooted Scales, and she graciously offered me a tea sample. I was so excited to find to find this blend included the wonderful Reishi and Basil. I feel like I’m finding Reishi popping up everywhere!! 🍄  To further my experience I used my secret honeycomb...and some creamed honey to balance the bitterness of it’s foreign cousin.

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This is from Masterpiece in a Day two years ago.  Essentially you are given from 9am to 3pm to create something outside in downtown Fountain Square, Indiana.  This piece is about how even when you are in so much pain, a heart bleeding out on the floor, you still have to put yourself together and transform into a beautiful butterfly.  Me? While I’d like to be a luna moth I left metamorphosis as a honeybee.

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Tea Delights Day 3:

After seeing one of the recent posts about the powers of Turkey Tail I had to try it for myself. When stopping over at The Good Earth today I was offered a lovely sampling of Four Sigmatic's Mushroom Chai Latte Mix, made with Reishi and Turkey Tail. I've already come to love reishi, with her amazing abilities to boost the immune system, but finding this small chance to try turkey tail for free was perfect. This sweet chai also was boosted with the tummy-soothing anti-inflammatory properties of ginger- as the chai mix contained ginger, cardamom, cinnamon, clove, pepper & coconut-- absolutely delicious, I'll be adding this to my tonics to wind down in the evenings.

*featuring my wildly messy art desk*

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Tea Challenge Day 2:

What's brewin: Oolong Tea. This beauty does contain caffeine, but also vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and beneficial polyphenol antioxidants. Oolong can boost metabolism, increase our alterness, and aid digestion.

Reflection as I drink: My photo is featuring a beautiful teapot from a lovely local restaurant. It was the perfect pairing to my meal as it's gentle flavor allowed me to digest my food more easily. Today I had to squeeze my challenge into a busy day....I was all a'buzz spending my day in the bee yards. As a beekeeper taking these chances to see the honeys when it's so lovely and warm out is a MUST. It was so gorgeous...and great news, all 5 hives survived! 100% success rate for this first-year beekeeper!! This tea was the perfect way to relax after all those amazing hours outdoors. Hope you ladies got some time to enjoy the air!

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Hello to the internet ether.  I haven’t been posting my drawings because they are being commissioned for a DnD campaign that might be released as a podcast or on youtube.....more to come.  For my daytime life I work at Ezra’s Enlightened Cafe.  The owner/creator Gaia Chef Audrey has an online learning program for home herbalists to learn how to use plants to thrive, improve their lives, and take back some control over their health.  In this Medicine Woman Membership we are being challenged to make a tea every day based on medicinal effects we feel that we need.  Mixing intuition and medicine seems to happen all the time in massage therapy.  Just to continue the experiment I will post the images, along with my ‘tea journalings’ here. 

Tea Challenge, Day 1:

Welcome to February! For me January seemed to be a time of hard transitions for many people I care about. I felt drained today from the current politics and worries about what's happening all over the world..coronavirus, mass fires....sometimes it can be too much for me. So today I wanted to relax with something fruity and delicious, and take my mind off the world for a moment. I cracked open my latest Neil Gaiman purchase The Graveyard Book and sipped this beauty. I love fruits and sweet things so this tasted like a fruity dessert-in-a-cup to me.

Cup Contents: fresh cubed apple slices, dried pineapple chunks, dried mango pieces, fresh orange peel, dried hibiscus flower blossoms, coconut sugar, and my own raw mulberry honey

Benefits: Fruits in general are packed with antioxidants- meaning the apples, mangoes, orange peels, and hibiscus are all creating nutritional boosts! Hibiscus can lower blood pressure and ease a sore throat. This aided me in feeling calmer. The heart health benefits of hibiscus are thought to come from their anthocyanins, the naturally-occurring chemicals that produce that distinctive red coloring to the petals. I also truly needed the throat soothing benefits of this flower and of the local honey to coat my throat from an upset stomach this past Thursday evening. The honey also helped balance the tartness of the hibiscus. Apples offer your body fiber, potassium, manganese, copper, and vitamins C, K, A, E, B1, B2, & B6, as well as polyphenols (and yes I left the skins on)

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I’ll never have these legs again.  My shoulder bone has started to break apart all the others.  I wonder, in another multiverse, have I started tightrope yet?

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Indy Mural Festival 2019-KIBee

Greetings fellow travelers.

I have an exciting announcement.  About a month ago your favorite online honey finished their first mural! I was granted the opportunity to work in community and spread my message about honey bees.  This was the first year for Indy Mural Festival, with over fifty mural artists at 6 different locations.  Luckily pour moi I was planted at Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, a nonprofit organization that plants trees, organizes group clean-ups of Indianapolis, fights invasive species and pollution, and beautifies the city.  Naturally they are huge honey bee fanatics, so the perfect of this placement was not lost on me.  

There were quite a few hiccups along the way.  The event was scheduled for three days...and the first, a Friday, I was in work all day.  The second was a torrential downpour so no one could paint.  The final Sunday I somehow managed to sweep in and lay this image there, with two more days necessitated for completion- the second for details and the third to spray enamel.  Enamel, you say. Why on Earth would a muralist need spray-fixative?? Aren’t your outdoor paints weather protected?? Why you ask? Well I could only afford a few cans of spray paint to scrawl these bees on the walls and the rest? ...Indoor paint.  That’s right. So let’s hope it doesn’t wash away, eh?

Regardless I took this opportunity to blend my two forms of artistic creativity- traditional art making and social practice community-based work.  This scene is site-responsive since the wall I received had some obstacles in it, like windows and a pressure gauge.  The honeys stare out into the audience pollinating the world with paints. I wanted this mural to reflect my values, but also the values of KIB.  My goal to work with their non-profit might be one buzz away...

What a bee-utiful day I say <3

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How often do you lose yourself, spacing far away from a moment.  Just wishing your soul could take flight out of your current self into the life you were meant to lead.  Sometimes I wonder when my life will take flight.

Not sure why I didn’t enter this years inktober here.  Guess because none of you know me yet.  This is an entry I did from 2017. 

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Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over The candlestick.

To and fro

Quick with toe

Oh no!

Don’t blow

The candle will go

He slips and twists

Falls and flips

the candle burns his fingertips

and with a scowl 

he turns to howl

as the flames grow ever higher

time ticks by

still the boy will cry

as life ticks by much faster

he reaches up

losing limb and laughter

as the last flesh burns, left only with blood and plaster

Jack’s adventure with Jill- original:

Jack and Jill Went up the hill To fetch a pail of water Jack fell down And broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after.

Up Jack got, And home did trot As fast as he could caper; To old Dame Dob, Who patched his nob With vinegar and brown paper.

Jack and Jill from

The Book of Knowledge, The Children's Encyclopedia

(1912)

E. Walter's, Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (London, 1919) 

Up Jack got And home did trot, As fast as he could caper; And went to bed And plastered his head With vinegar and brown paper.

Twentieth-century versions of this verse include:

When Jill came in How she did grin To see Jack's paper plaster; Mother vexed Did whip her next For causing Jack's disaster

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this looks like the loading screen for the best video game ever

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When will we need to stop fighting?  When will it be accepted that ALL HUMANS DESERVE EQUAL RIGHTS

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My yogic practice today was transcendental. While this might sound like a cliche what I really mean to say is that as my cells lost all of their remaining stores I felt the world grow into monochrome and the feeling of corporeality slip away until all was empty shades of grey. My body was beyond the ability to muster movement.  Then dual tones began to resonate- the low but disturbing hums one only notices when the room hushes until the electronics speak.  Then a blip and one line of color broke through my vision.  I slowed myself and recentered my core.  Breath.  Breath.  Breath.  Slowly energy began to return to my limbs, my lips became full again, the light in my mind flickered back on and I returned to this world.

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I am starting over.

Here time is the traveler.

and I the constant.