LIFE AS MYTH

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JOURNAL 2016

A call to wonder

What I might be

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FALL 2016

The lessons in art and life

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SUMMER 2016

Tap your heels three times

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SPRING 2016

What I might be

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WINTER 2016

The winter's tale

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LIFEWORKS

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JOURNAL 2016
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A CALL TO WONDER

The dance of Miriam from The Golden Haggadah, artist unknown. ca 14th century. The British Library, London.

It is so difficult to describe what the sky and the water do here -- but it is like they are one seamless curtain of silk, a silk that is every shade of blue.  Because the horizon is so open, you can see an unlimited expanse of that blue silk and it ripples and shifts every time the light breaks through the clouds to dance on some distant stretch of waters.

At the furthest most point, there is a beautiful beach with very fine white sand.  It sits in a deep basin with mountains rising up on either side and the water is a deep turquoise which turns powder blue further out. And in the distance you see the backs of blue-violet mountains rising out of the ocean. 

The Celts told of a place called Mag Mell. According to their myth, you only find it by accident -- usually when you are in a boat which is driven off course by a storm.  What makes this Celtic paradise different from so many others in world mythology is that it is not an afterlife realm of shadows or eternal punishment. It is something altogether different. Mag Mell, meaning "the plain of joy," is a place of eternal youth and beauty, a place where sickness and death do not exist, a place where all those things which are beautiful in this Life finally come together.

 

 

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