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Graphic Art by Niki Flow – Picmonkey
Happy Thors Day.
News: New Gallery Show. Grateful for this trust. “Greatest Compliment”
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Special thanks to Rajni for contributing this favorite quote.
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“Annual Light” Copyright John Olander 2018. All rights reserved. Used with permission.
Thank you! ♡ Photos “Moon Sky” and “Sky Amazing” by Niki Flow
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You may know about or have been a part of our 2015-2016 “300 Days of Gratitude” Challenges on KindSpring.org. I wrote about our journey recently, and about our origin inspiration (Mike Albrough) here: 300+ -The Journey So Far
For the”300″ series, we did 17 consecutive 21-day challenges. It was great to be connected with friends, love ones and people from all over the world. So, I’m really happy to invite you to today to a brand new series as well as to a brand new challenge called “Reverence.”
“Reverence” begins on June 11th. It was written by KindSpring and “The Soul of WoMen.” Since this will be my first time with the challenge, I don’t know a lot about it except that it was really well received.
Here’s the link: https://www.kindspring.org/challenge/join/1661
Our new gratitude series, “300,000+ Days of Gratitude” began in December, 2017. “Reverence” is the 7th in the series. For the “300k+” series, we’re doing a challenge a month using the KindSpring templates as well as new and original content. We’re also continuing the weekly “Gratitude Journal” bonus challenges.
I hope to see you! (=
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Photo by Niki Flow
“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.” -Henry David Thoreau
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Poem “2nd Grade” John Olander. Photographer Unknown.
by John Olander
What was I thinking in the second grade?
How about the luminous face of my vibrant teacher?
She may have been a nun, but she still looked like she’d be a lot of fun.
But let’s not get carried away,
She did rap my knuckles with the ruler more than once,
And looked like she was enjoying it.
Just the same, what you are taught in the second grade is to love each other.
That comes long before bullying and ridicule, arrogant self-identity,
Followed by the beginning of separation and cliquish behavior.
Your drawing need not be perfect,
Your penmanship doesn’t matter.
Your Generosity permeates everything.
You still emulate everything that is good.
Your joy in life itself is both palpable and contagious.
It is only in becoming jaded and forgetting the joy
that is the giving of yourself that you begin to age.
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820: nos corazon
you’re missing from me,
tu me manques, and I from you
equiponderant
ay, nos Corazon,
our beautiful Benjamin
rentrer à la maison
-nf
our heart / you're missing from me / (you're missing from me) and I from you /equiponderant / oh, our heart / our beautiful Benjamin / return home
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Dies Mercurrii
I beg your indulgence. Today’s poem is a rare self-insert, but I cannot silence my heart’s keening. Some nights are like this. Then, I surface. Hope returns.
Instead of monthly themes, we’ll be doing recurring weekly ones for the days when we don’t have any new creations to share from our homeless artists. Recurring daily themes are: Monday – (fun)day – humor; Tuesday – muse day (our biggest inspirations); Wednesday – dies Mercurii – Day of Mercury, mercurial day, water day (Japanese/Korean) “Water Star;” anything goes; Thursday – Thor, the gods, those we worship (God, god or otherwise); Friday – Frigg / Venus day, so LOVE; -or- TGIF what it really means. Or bag all that and insert your theme idea here:
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from An Invitation
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Photo by PicMonkey.com. Quote from ServiceSpace.org
Inspired by Mita Shah. How does your garden grow? I’d love to know.
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New content, new photos, new inspiration. #under1000skies will begin again on Monday May 21st. There’s also news about my @jazztizz #missingson Benjamin that gives me more hope than I have had in two years. Details as soon as I get confirmation. Special thanks tonight to LBD for her love-driven detective work.
♡nf
UPDATE:
Turns out, the address Ben’s friends found through their dogged detective work was an old one. Still hopeful and grateful for their help. ♥
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Until further notice, under1000skies is going offline. We are still accepting gratefully any contributions. We’ll go live again as soon as we can get a body of work to share. In the meantime, please share our site with anyone who might know homeless creatives or those who support them who would like to be featured here.
Have a great weekend. ♡.
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