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Day 9   The Holy

in your most creative endeavors,  what part of yourself do you reach for most instinctively

It's not glued in.   Today was the day to foray into town to see if the documents had arrived for the MVD and then go from there.  This disrupted my morning collage ritual.   Getting ready,  i felt myself so far away from the morning space as it's been over the last days.  Severed.   Just as i got to the gate down there,  loading through the 2 bags of trash for the trash receptacle  at the road phone and it was Alyssia  asking if it was an ok time to come by and bring ice and FOOD.  At first i said no,  but then ok,  she would go by the Post Office and bring mail….ok  and they were all in the mood to bring by food,  already loaded in her car from her grandfather's visit at the airbnb.  Grandfather left this morning.  Lots of stuff,  dips and chips and all manner of things from Trader Joe's.  delicacies.  And that went on for a good chunk of time,  the delivery

When they left,  i  got the collage stuff.  The single image i had found to be Right in the early morning….the eye  and then went from there.   I didn't glue it down.  My body energy was off.  But i set them in place and they feel right.  true.  and good.

What i am loving most,  what i most want and seek   is that sense of an open window.  A freedom of responding to the  prompts with no forethought  with no end result in mind.  Just spontaneous response.   Just surprising myself.  It's a beauty FULL way to  begin the days by surprise and it's quick,  immediate,  like opening a window in my mind/heart

 

 

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16 responses to “open the window”

  1. Dana Avatar

    I love the image of an open window in your heart and mind. I feel a fresh breeze blowing through.

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  2. grace Forrest Avatar

    i just LOVE it, the feeling of it. Nothing but what it IS
    in that Moment. Nothing More. But so FREEING.

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  3. dee Avatar

    It IS like opening a window. And it helps to be in the body a certain way to do it. I am really liking the energy of your ripped edges.

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  4. Acey Avatar

    The convo emerging from this post reminds me of a friend who calls collage Creative Feng Shui. And I do also like the open window sensation/analogy. Immediately put me in mind of Andrew Wyeth’s Wind from the Sea. That painting is how my own collage-induced open window feels from the inside.
    eta: I smiled to see the sideways view of an image you had torn and set aside in preparation for the prompts to begin.

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  5. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes! i am glad you respond this way…it IS! Different.
    the ripped edges…can’t help that…cloth, paper, it FEELS SO GOOD and the fibers exposed, freed……
    but i am also noticing i like very much the CUT edges in juxtaposition

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s all just beyond Great, Acey. it was perfect. a set aside look.

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  7. carol Avatar
    carol

    I have loved reading your journey with collage. I was introduced to this process through “Soul Collage” cards. I love putting together my own world and those that will accompany me. My “protector” and “companion” cards are so meaningful. When the feeling comes, I love starting the day with a new companion. Collage on dear one and find your open windows. Blessings

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  8. joanne Avatar
    joanne

    It’s like I am looking right into your eyes.

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  9. Michelle Slater Avatar

    Like Ram Das said “Be Here Now”
    You do that: Interruption? OK, Time to create? OK.
    You are so Okay, you make me feel Okay too.
    Love you.

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  10. Liz A Avatar

    the disruption to the morning collage ritual … I am struck by how quickly this has become a “thing” and how dis-orienting it can be to miss it

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  11. Patty M Avatar

    Your image is comforting and protective. But it also has an
    opening quality.

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    carol…i realized, when trying to click your name here, and then checking with others that no longer does typepad do whatever it did to let us enter someone elses blog that way. So….Do you have a blog?
    you call me
    dear one
    and when i read that…my heart skipped. My very long and great friend Wendy who left this plane last year used to call me that….dear one. Thank you.
    i’d love to see what you do

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    i have come around to that….it’s the only way, really, yes?

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. so much. yes.

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    maybe those things always accompany each other???????

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