day 407

 hello number 31

day 406

hello number 30. What power, what light lies within? How can we re-imagine ourselves, our planet, our universe?

day 405

hello 29. As she emerges we build a new way of being.

day 404

hello number 28

day 403

hello number 27. This one seems to enter a whole new mystical space. Nice one, divine mother!

day 402

hello number 26

day 401

hello number 25 and suddenly my little 5x5 format seems too small.

day 400

Like the rest of the universe, she lies within & without, she creates & destroys, she shades & illuminates. hello number 24.

day 399

Her colors are many. Her path leads..right here! hello number 23

day 398

hello number 22

day 397

hello number 21

day 396

hello number 20

day 395

hello number 19

day 394

What if the Earth is a living being that supports each and every one of us in our livelihood, our well-being, and the manifestation of our dreams?...hello number 18.

day 393

hello number 17

day 392

hello number 16. new color, new life, new machinery.

day 391

Hello number 15. I see creating, destroying, illumination, and new emergence. No sense hanging on to that which is being forged into the new.

day 390 : Collage-A-Day Traveling Roadshow collaborates with the Young Stracke All-Stars

Guess who's suddenly an art teacher? 

Much to my delight, I was invited to meet with The Young Stracke All-Stars on Sunday to lead a workshop involving collage. The YSA's are a group of motivated and dedicated 9-13 year old musicians led by motivated and dedicated teacher and musician, Jason McInnes. 

To get the creativity flowing from the get go, I brought along the collaborative collage that has graced the walls of the c-a-d 6 month and 12 month celebrations. The YSA's dove right in a-cuttin' and a-pastin'.

The YSA's alternately engaged in collagery, and, under Jason's gentle and empowering guidance, moved chairs, set up tables, and generally took ownership of the gathering.

We came together around the table. Each participant showed bravery, leadership, and support by rating their day from 1-10, describing why s/he chose that number, choosing the next speaker, and listening. Then I led a brief meditation on "Your Unique Creativity". We each got to make a collage based on the experience. The All-stars' task was to decorate folders for keeping their music and papers organized. Here is the gang at play.

We cleaned up, displayed our work, and took a walk around the table to view each piece. We had a few minutes to share our experience and talk about our work. I forgot to photograph the finished pieces! But here is a scan of "my unique creativity". One word that came up to describe my creativity during my visualization was "dynamic".

And here is the on-going collaborative collage in it's latest incarnation. There is scarcely room to add on to it.

Finally, I like to have participants list adjectives to describe their states of being as they contribute to the collaborative collage. The Young Stracke All-Stars described their states of being thusly: excited, happy, attentive, sugary, thirsty.

day 389

hello number 14. Her power collaborates with our own to create that which is radiant, sparkling, blossoming, emergent, earthy, and enduring.

day 388

Hello number 13. There is a rebirth that happens. When she emerges, renewed, and the old machinery falls away, a grand new space of life and growth opens up before her, before us all.