https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5qywkiBlHY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh1d4UPCoMM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-suuzz4g2R0
XO WINK. ....OOPS. (broke a nail.)
Sunday, February 15, 2015
Sunday, January 11, 2015
A quiet falter
These rude things, slightly wrinkled, weather chafed, and odd-spotted;
Once I thought they could caress the fevered, paint possibility, mend cares;
Banged and injured, broken and healed, they mirrored the struggles of others'; others' hands and hollow moments, tended to all-too-briefly,
And yet.....
They seemed little enough, too slow, infuriatingly tired, impossibly inadequate, still, to my heart,
in a world where there are eyes, hands, mouths, minds.....dreams - still
Idle and ill.
Once I thought they could caress the fevered, paint possibility, mend cares;
Banged and injured, broken and healed, they mirrored the struggles of others'; others' hands and hollow moments, tended to all-too-briefly,
And yet.....
They seemed little enough, too slow, infuriatingly tired, impossibly inadequate, still, to my heart,
in a world where there are eyes, hands, mouths, minds.....dreams - still
Idle and ill.
Monday, January 5, 2015
Wishes for a New Year of Hope, Health, Happiness and Prosperity in 2015
Original watercolour painting by Dawn M. Nevills
"
Misty Mountain"
Original Watercolour painting by Dawn M. Nevills
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Squeegie People: A People's Christmas Story Solution
Idea/Mission : Once again - like twenty years ago - provide street people with a newspaper/chapbook publication, cheaply published on newsprint, (donated by a caring business, or businesses interested in empowerment, active political change, and a changed perception of the dispossessed and downtrodden, without empowering drug dealers who abuse art and creativity), to which the "underrepresented and seemingly voiceless" - or anyone wanting to help lift the affected and those who care about them, with something to say about "Problem" and "Solution - can contribute poetry, stories, writing, sketches.....thoughts of freedom and betterment.
Cost: like before.....one dollar, or a toonie. One step beyond a Christmas card, because even the stamp is just beyond the budget, these days.....
Result: A job - with real meaning, impetus for creativity - and definitely something to say. Or you can donate what you want, to read what you want, when you want....without being plugged in to anything except caring at Christmas, and everyday. It is NOT begging, and has dignity. It is classic art possibility. It is striving against powerlessness. It is stimulus for the minds and hands uncrushed, like the spirit.
I throw this hope to the winds, and wish for it to blow into hands more powerful, and empowering, than mine.......perhaps a little closer to the action.
I wish it to be in place of a ticket for loitering, or insulting those scurrying to and from somewhere else to somewhere else, mindful of presence, and feeling powerless, themselves, to do anything about it - except maybe on their break, when they can read a little hope in a darkened and turbulent world.
Oh, where is the Spirit of Conrad Black when we need him? Ah....vilified, non-exuberant...ticketed.
Cost: like before.....one dollar, or a toonie. One step beyond a Christmas card, because even the stamp is just beyond the budget, these days.....
Result: A job - with real meaning, impetus for creativity - and definitely something to say. Or you can donate what you want, to read what you want, when you want....without being plugged in to anything except caring at Christmas, and everyday. It is NOT begging, and has dignity. It is classic art possibility. It is striving against powerlessness. It is stimulus for the minds and hands uncrushed, like the spirit.
I throw this hope to the winds, and wish for it to blow into hands more powerful, and empowering, than mine.......perhaps a little closer to the action.
I wish it to be in place of a ticket for loitering, or insulting those scurrying to and from somewhere else to somewhere else, mindful of presence, and feeling powerless, themselves, to do anything about it - except maybe on their break, when they can read a little hope in a darkened and turbulent world.
Oh, where is the Spirit of Conrad Black when we need him? Ah....vilified, non-exuberant...ticketed.
Thursday, July 3, 2014
Sunday, June 15, 2014
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