E3P2S: Cloud Pine Portrait

Monday, September 21, 2009

Cloud Pine Portrait

What it looks like, at the end of the day, to spend all day painting faces and making construction paper headbands with kids at a bluegrass festival in the midst of a huge hail-lightning-thunderstorm in a Ponderosa Pine forest while being really tired and wearing a red volunteer t-shirt, after having been sick for two weeks:

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Kate MacKaySeptember 23, 2009 at 12:53 PM
you look peaceful and like the energy around you has just smoothed the lines of concern on your forehead.
the expression on your face is not unlike that of bernini's ecstasy of st. teresa
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Facing life in genuine openness means realizing that as much as we do and must plan for our futures, we cannot know what will be, and thus we do not yet know how to engage in what has not yet come to us. Accepting this means seeing too that life is rich in possibility. "No one knows what the body can do." Embracing such possibility comes with facing the constraints of the life we've both chosen, and simply have, and seeing them as the rich earth across which we may expand our horizons. My writing here is an attempt to consider such richness, and embolden such possibility.
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“When people cease waiting for great leaders or prophets to solve entrenched problems and look, instead, within themselves, trusting their own thinking, believing in their own power, and to their families and communities for solutions, change will follow. In traditional indigenous communities, there is an understanding that our lives play themselves out within a set of reciprocal relationships. If each human being in the world could fully understand that we all are interdependent and responsible for one another, it would save the world.” —Wilma Mankiller
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