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Afraid of Nothing I am deliberate and afraid of nothing. --Audre Lorde, last lines of poem "New Year's Day" from…
"All Power to All People"
"All Power to All People" #wordlesswednesday #hankwillisthomas #art #focusonblack #afropick #blacklivesmatter#africanamericanart #allpowertoallpeople
“All Power to All People.” Art installation by Hank Willis Thomas at Burning Man 2018. Photo by Christine B.
It’s time for another brief art lesson [and the crowd goes wild]!
The afro pick (or afro comb) installation above is the work of Hank Willis Thomas, a conceptual artist who works “primarily with themes related to perspective, identity, commodity, media, and popular culture” (Artist’s bio).
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Until It Flowers Again...
Everything Flowers #WordlessWednesday #flowers #poetry
“My Mother’s Garden.” Photo by Suzette R.
The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; though sometimes it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its brow of the flower and retell it in words and in touch it is lovely until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing […] —Galway Kinnell
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#ThursdayTreeLove | Trees in a Field of Sunflowers
#ThursdayTreeLove | Trees in a Field of Sunflowers #sunflowers #quotes
Photograph by F.A. Ackermann [Click image for a full view]
At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. –Toni Morrison, Tar Baby
How perfect is this image?
The absolutely gorgeous photo postcard above came from my Love Notes friend, Eileen V. She embellished the postcard with extra sunflower love on front and back and sent it “just because.”
Trees and sunflowers? Just the kind of #T…
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Two Cards | Appropriate for These Times | #WordlessWednesday
Art by Nola C. Specially colored for me by Christine B.
I read a Washington Post article this morning that reported the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations is rising in several U.S. states.
The card says it all.
It’s hard not to worry, but I am consoling myself with the hope that we are giving birth to something new and healthy.
About the Images:I received the cards in this #WordlessWednesday…
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Step by Step
I experienced a “letdown” a couple of days ago. It wasn’t exactly unexpected, but it crushed me. In trying to sort things out and figure out the reason for the deep ache, I arrived at grief. It becomes entangled with everything: the loss of my sisters mingles with other [unrelated] losses; the wound reopens, the healing process begins again, and I have to remind myself to breathe.
When we were…
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I Know My Worth. Today's offering is the brief Alfa Holden poem my Love Notes friend/literary twin, Bianca N wrote on the back of the gorgeous floral postcard (above).
Still Dews.
Still Dews. #poetry #poem #johngreenleafwhittier #nationalpoetrymonth #artwolfe
“Vetch and Milk Thistle.” Photographer, Art Wolfe.
As I head into the weekend and to Sabbath rest, I am whispering in my spirit the penultimate verse of John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem, “Soma.”
Many recognize the words from the hymn, “Dear Lord and Father of Mankind,”but do not know they come from the longer poem. What they also may not know is that Whittier–seeing it as showy or unnecessarily…
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