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Never Give Up!

5/28/2016

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“When you go through a hard period,
When everything seems to oppose you,
... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute,
NEVER GIVE UP!

Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!”


~ Rumi
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5/20/2016

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" Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
all this must go so you know
how desolate the landscape can be
between the regions of kindness.
How you ride and ride
thinking the bus will never stop,
the passengers eating maize and chicken
will stare out the window forever.
Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness,
you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho
lies dead by the side of the road.
You must see how this could be you,
how he too was someone

who journeyed through the night with plans
and the simple breath that kept him alive.


Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.  You must wake up with sorrow. You must speak to it till your voice catches the thread of all sorrows and you see the size of the cloth.

Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,
only kindness that ties your shoes and sends you out into the day to mail letters and purchase bread, only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say it is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you every where like a shadow or a friend."

Naomi Shihab Nye - Kindness





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The PATINA Series began after a life changing medical issue I underwent in March of 2016. Life stream, humanity, aging and mortality became forefront in my daily life. Living with a heart-health issue is something I'm working into my life.  Art  guides me through this process. 
The series is titled Patina for the layering and aging we experience in life.

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