For Ynot
Category: MISCELLANEOUS or ABSTRACT
Rumi Quote
This quote from one of Rumi’s most-loved poems can be interpreted in many different ways.
Here is one interpretation which I like:
“Fundamentally for me this is a lyrical invitation to discover your true calling (“the beauty we love”) and express that authentically in the world (“be what we do”)….The extension of the invitation is to embrace the permission to release the “should” and follow the golden thread of what truly makes you feel alive. (Julia McCutcheon)”
This was a card which I made long ago for a friend who was taking a huge step in his life to follow his heart. It is made from a rubbing over real plants. The fern is my favourite plant and a very ancient one. Ferns were found in fossils 360 million years ago, but most around today did not appear until 145 million years ago!
Fall Whirlwind
This is a Fall whirlwind, just a little local one, catching up all the fallen leaves.
But “whirlwinds” can happen at any time, unexpected happenings, things you never imagined would happen can suddenly shake up your life. It’s not always easy, among the debris, to search for the gifts such shake-ups may bring. But it is possible!
Autumn Garden
Autumn Tree
Blue Scribble
I often find it difficult to pick one title for a picture, or for anything, actually! This one, an abstract, had three potential titles: Ups and Downs, Water Patterns, Dancing reflections. It ended up as Blue Scribble!
One thing I realised during the B’s Bits Covid project was that everyone reads different things into pictures, poems etc. Sometimes, it is what I had intended but did not mention and sometimes they are things which I did not see until they were pointed out to me.
The Wings of the Morning
Whither shall I go from Thy Spirit?
Or wither shall I flee from Thy Presence?
If I take the WINGS of the MORNING
And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea
Even there shall Thy hand lead me
And Thy right hand shall hold me.
If I say surely the darkness shall cover me
Then the night shall be light about me.
I made this painting long ago, during a year when I was a librarian for a year in a theological college. A personal G*d, whom one would address as Thou, is not part of my spiritual imagination, yet some of the Psalms resonate with me, as do these (selected) lines from Psalm 139. They also remind me of the second and last verses of one of my old-favorite poems, by Yeats:
The LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE
-William Butler Yeats
Sometimes when anxiety, or fear these Covid days, threaten to take over, I can reach down to “my deep heart’s core” and know that I do have some peace there, even if sometimes, “peace comes dropping slow” ! And even in “the uttermost parts of the sea” with darkness covering me, I will have some Light there, and Peace there, in my deep heart’s core, by whatever name one wishes to call it.
To anyone who has to fly to the uttermost parts, through illness or other circumstances: may you be blessed with Peace.
Sunflower and mandalas
This is part of a small series of sunflower pictures made from photos of sunflowers, mostly in the community garden where I had a plot. Sunflowers are another of my favorite plants and the seedhead in the centre (one of nature’s patterns) together with the surrounding petals, makes something like a mandala.
At the back of each sunflower in the series are two circles containing cultural, religious or universal circular patterns, in this case a star and a maze.
Concrete Abstract 1
Sidetracks
When I looked up the word sidetracks on Google, I was surprised to find that almost all of the definitions – at least as far as I went – were very negative! I had not thought of it that way when I made this pic, far from it, although I must admit that sometimes getting sidetracked is not a good thing! For me, however, I think of it more as the times when I have discovered something wonderful which I would have missed if I had kept on going on the route on which I started out .
Then I discovered a site called Wordhippo, which I had not encountered before, and my faith in thesaurus-type sites has been restored! Thank you, hippo, for reminding me of all the pleasures that footpaths, back streets, lanes, pathways, trails, wynds and so on have brought me in my life. And, getting sidetracked, I learnt what ginnels, snickets and twittens are!
