#hereness

[allieum-sativum]

Y'all ready for another election year?

Kafka bumper sticker from CritDrip on Etsy & doikayt sticker from @thejewitches

[philipchircop]

STAND STILL

Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes. Listen. It answers, I have made this place around you. If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here. No two trees are the same to Raven. No two branches are the same to Wren. If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you, You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows Where you are. you must let it find you.

–David Wagoner, from Collected Poems 1956-1976

TAKE IT FURTHER

Read the poem, aloud if possible.

Think about this question: Are the images or metaphors relevant to your daily life?

Invite the Holy Spirit into your heart.

Sit with the poem for 10 or 15 minutes.

Respond in some way: drawing, writing, silence.

[salem-waffle-phorg-spoon]

greetings tumblr :0

i”M HERE N I”M READY TO sneeze a lot n do nothing amazing in particular *spreads gae pheremones around* *sneezes*

[anthonycfrancis]

Juneteenth, Kansas City, 2018. Back in San Antonio from Kansas City, I wanted to post the images from a 3-hour session I did at the Juneteenth festival for the sake of representing blackness in its diversity and the history of its structure and, yet, the dynamism of people happening to be in the 18th and Vine district, a historical place from where my mother’s side hails and from where fam thrives. The next pictures are plentiful. Let’s celebrate us. It was a good time. Thanks for all that represented themselves in this small series. It was a happiness that spilled over. Here’s to Killa City and the living, thriving people. Peace and love KC. #people #juneteenth #18thandvine #kansascity #photography #portrait #portraiture #makeportraits #mamasland #family #hereness #peaceandlove #artislife #art #contemporaryart

[anthonycfrancis]

Juneteenth, Kansas City, 2018. Back in San Antonio from Kansas City, I wanted to post the images from a 3-hour session I did at the Juneteenth festival for the sake of representing blackness in its diversity and the history of its structure and, yet, the dynamism of people happening to be in the 18th and Vine district, a historical place from where my mother’s side hails and from where fam thrives. The next pictures are plentiful. Let’s celebrate us. It was a good time. Thanks for all that represented themselves in this small series. It was a happiness that spilled over. Here’s to Killa City and the living, thriving people. Peace and love KC. #people #juneteenth #18thandvine #kansascity #photography #portrait #portraiture #makeportraits #mamasland #family #hereness #peaceandlove #artislife #art #contemporaryart

[anthonycfrancis]

Juneteenth, Kansas City, 2018. Back in San Antonio from Kansas City, I wanted to post the images from a 3-hour session I did at the Juneteenth festival for the sake of representing blackness in its diversity and the history of its structure and, yet, the dynamism of people happening to be in the 18th and Vine district, a historical place from where my mother’s side hails and from where fam thrives. The next pictures are plentiful. Let’s celebrate us. It was a good time. Thanks for all that represented themselves in this small series. It was a happiness that spilled over. Here’s to Killa City and the living, thriving people. Peace and love KC. #people #juneteenth #18thandvine #kansascity #photography #portrait #portraiture #makeportraits #mamasland #family #hereness #peaceandlove #artislife #art #contemporaryart

[anthonycfrancis]

Juneteenth, Kansas City, 2018. Back in San Antonio from Kansas City, I wanted to post the images from a 3-hour session I did at the Juneteenth festival for the sake of representing blackness in its diversity and the history of its structure and, yet, the dynamism of people happening to be in the 18th and Vine district, a historical place from where my mother’s side hails and from where fam thrives. The next pictures are plentiful. Let’s celebrate us. It was a good time. Thanks for all that represented themselves in this small series. It was a happiness that spilled over. Here’s to Killa City and the living, thriving people. Peace and love KC. #people #juneteenth #18thandvine #kansascity #photography #portrait #portraiture #makeportraits #mamasland #family #hereness #peaceandlove #artislife #art #contemporaryart