Nurturing The Song Within
Man does indeed know intuitively more than he rationally understands. The question, however, is how we can gain access
to the potentials of knowledge contained in the depth of us, how we can achieve increased capacities of direct intuition and enlarged awareness.
- Ira Progoff, At A Journal Workshop
Heart First Opened
Oxbow Blue
(Available Original 34 feet Wide)
A person's life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art, or love, or passionate work, those one or two images in the presence of which his heart first opened.
- Albert Camus
When did your heart first open? Describe the event in detail. Where you were, how you felt.
How do you serve that image?
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I spent three months one summer painting Oxbow Blue, pictured above. It is 34 feet wide by five feet tall and still available. If you have a home for it, I’ll bring it to you and set it up, which will take a couple of days.
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Thank you everyone for your continued feedback on reduced written content such as the excerpt above. I had planned to email everyone individually to thank you for your response but have been totally preoccupied with a myriad of adjustments required to get the new Art Journal printed.
Based on suggestions of many, I’ve removed my journaling prompts from the Planner/Diary and replaced them with:
Question life is presenting you.
Example below. Most days, that prompt is my own starting point in journaling. It often leads in worthwhile directions, particularly when the question that first comes to mind is one I’ve been avoiding.
Also below, the page from the new Art Journal that the above is taken from.
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You can order the Art Journal and Diary/Planner here.
You can download a PDF of either two-page spread below by clicking on the image. It does take a few seconds to download and gain resolution.