tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27338125592834186352024-02-07T05:33:40.132-05:00Coffee With HallelujahDiscussing Matters Most Important to Artful JourneyingRuth Schowalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03106140875246572230noreply@blogger.comBlogger600125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2733812559283418635.post-6588839956918757872018-04-11T08:33:00.000-04:002018-04-11T08:39:13.125-04:00GRATEFUL FOR ONE THING<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ALL TIME. This TIME. Before this TIME. I am grateful for everything large and small, simple and complex, challenging and easeful. I AM GRATEFUL FOR MY TIME here on this planet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Even though here in Atlanta, Georgia, spring is slow to emerge (morning temperatures are in the 40’s!), the oak tree hanging over our patio is dripping pollen on the route from our door out to the parking lot and world beyond. The long-eared hostas lining the path in light and dark greens streaked with yellow are unfurling, some more exuberantly than others. There is a light floral fragrance perfuming the brick walls and gate. I am reminded of the saying “Time waits for no one.” In this case, it is nature. Nature is not waiting for warming temperatures to do its thing!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: medium;">LEAVING DREAMING.</b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: small;">ALL TIME. This TIME. Before this TIME. I am grateful for everything large and small, simple and complex, challenging and easeful. I AM GRATEFUL FOR MY TIME here on this planet. The blue box that the figure on the right is immersed in represents my WALL. Hallelujah Truth (me) is on the bottom left. She is "dreaming" of the leaves unfurling - the growth beyond the gate. </span><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(art by Hallelujah Truth)</span></i></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My art work posted here (four days in progress), shows my morning reflections on this topic beginning this past Sunday before I went to Dance Church at Decatur Ballet, where we community members move in whatever ways our bodies call us to move. This art work has continued to dance forward each morning in the wee hours before I begin crafting the language lessons I teach to international visitors at GT.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I let my artwork speak to me. I lean in and listen to the imageas as I make a line or color one of them. I lead with my subconscious, my morning waking mind, staying positive, knowing that there is wisdom in this kind of unedited conversation with myself – my inner world.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is in these conversations that my “inner” world and my “outer” world meet at a WALL. For a year or longer, I have felt an inner yearning to learn a new language, walk through a new door, embrace another. However, I keep bumping into a WALL or WALLs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This morning, I am realizing that this boundary between the old and the unvisited or new is the “one” thing I might be grateful for. My WALL is an offering to the progression of my wholeness. There it is – a WALL signpost in my pilgrim’s journey. Hallelujah! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hallelujah for the poem “Start Here” by Steve Garnaas-Holmes that was offered to me by Nancy Pfaltzgraf on the online Monday dance chapel. It is through gratitude that our lives are illuminated with ease and grace. And we do not need to be grateful for everything. One small thing will do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Those mornings when you wake up burdened,</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">already thinking Oh why bother,</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">start here:</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">thank God for one thing.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">One person whom you love will do,</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">though even a remarkable coincidence is acceptable.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">You don't even need to go into peaches,</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">the color blue, or migratory birds,</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">or a child's laugh you heard the other day,</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">let alone the angelic speech of nerve synapses</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">or the inscrutable ballet of spiral galaxies,</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">or God's outlandish love for you. </span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Just one thing to give thanks for.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Then resolve to live the day</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">in adequate gratitude for that one thing,</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">and begin. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Right now, as I stare TIME in the face and feel the WALL in my body and see it expressed in my image, I am GRATEFUL. Perhaps by being GRATEFUL for this one thing – this WALL -, I too am experiencing the grace of being that begins transformation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My husband has filled his thermos with coffee, donned his jacket, and kissed me on the cheek before heading out the door and out into the yellow skies swirling with pollen. As I follow him today and go through the gates of the wall that surround our courtyard, I will dance and hum gratitude for the WALL.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That’s Coffee with Hallelujah! Are you making time for your creativity? What one small thing are you grateful for today? Will you join me in creating grace one step at a time from the mundane to the mysterious?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Thanks to Nancy Pfaltzgraf for this poem on gratitude by Steve Garnaas-Holmes. Deep gratitude to Cynthia Winton-Henry for creating the online Dance Chapel on Monday nights. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Ruth Schowalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03106140875246572230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2733812559283418635.post-47992022705535388572018-04-03T10:53:00.000-04:002018-04-03T10:53:18.746-04:00MAPPING COMPASSION: The Further You Go <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Geneva;">Hallelujah for ME. Yes, there, I said it! I am celebrating MYSELF! Yay ME!</span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Geneva;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Geneva;">Before I named myself Hallelujah Truth, I was given the name RUTH by my parents. This name RUTH has meaning: COMPASSION, BIG-HEARTEDNESS, HUMANITY…well you get the picture. RUTH is something we want in our lives not only for how we treat others, but also for how we treat ourselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Geneva;">Was it about 9 years ago that I expanded my name from RUTH to TRUTH to HALLELUJAH TRUTH? I’m smiling at how fast time travels. The handle “Hallelujah Truth” has served me well during the decade of my 50’s. Such an exuberant name has given me permission to praise everything I have encountered loudly and joyfully and expansively. I have learned the practice of creating grace employing my imagination and focusing on the GOOD.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Geneva;">Now, I’m preparing for the next decade in my life, and I’m “dancing” with who I am, what I’ve become, and where I’m headed next. I am experiencing a longing for a deeper listening, a leaning into, and a need to summon a high kind of seriousness born of love, tolerance, and patience. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Geneva;">I began this blog, “Coffee with Hallelujah,” in order to hear my VOICE because at the time, it was just a squeak. I had suffered from a writer’s block for 20 years, and I longed to regain the verbal poetry beyond that of my visual art. Those of you who have become acquainted with me over the 9 years of my blogging might be surprised to learn that I still am not speaking the language of self I was born to speak. I have this niggling feeling of hunger, disconnection, an unsung song….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Geneva;">Last night, Cynthia Winton-Henry during online dance chapel had us dance with the concept of mercy – also a form of compassion, a form of me –RUTH. She offered us this poem by Andrew Colliver.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: Geneva;">travel the path of time and circumstance.</span><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva;"><span style="color: #660000;">The further you go, the more it comes back to paying attention. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva;"><span style="color: #660000;">The rough skin of the tallowwood, the trade routes of lorikeets, a sky lifting <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva;"><span style="color: #660000;">the texture of things.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva;"><span style="color: #660000;">People can go before you and talk all they want, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva;"><span style="color: #660000;">but only one thing makes sense: the way the world enters<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva;"><span style="color: #660000;">and finds its voice in you: the place you are free.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">The image, “Mapping Compassion,” that I have created today exists in two forms. One is the image of me, Hallelujah Truth, without a heart, without compassion, without RUTH. I observe a seriousness, one I want to enter to find my voice, and thus be set free.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Geneva;">The second image shows an added image of my growing heart, which was cut out from wrapping paper with a map design. This image, “Mapping Compassion,” is still in process and emerging from contemplation through drawing and movement. As I continue to gather the years and prepare to move into the decade of my sixties, I have the intention of graduating into my RUTH VOICE. Yes, I will still be Hallelujah, and RUTH is inside of the TRUTH. However, I want to trust in my RUTHNESS.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Geneva;">How wonderful that I am holding RUTH as the voice of COMPASSION, BIG-HEARTEDNESS, and, yes, MERCY. This compassionate journey of self surely connects me with you and the rest of the world.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: small;">but only one thing makes sense: the way the world enters<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Geneva;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: small;">and finds its voice in you: the place you are free. </span></span><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>(Art by Hallelujah Truth)</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva;">The further you go, the more it comes back to paying attention! Oh yes! Yes to the journey. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">I have just three things to teach:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">These are your greatest treasures. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Compassionate toward yourself,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">You reconcile all beings in the world. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Ruth Schowalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03106140875246572230noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2733812559283418635.post-27330155773292533432018-04-01T11:51:00.004-04:002018-04-01T12:01:19.947-04:00FEAST: Savoring it!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hallelujah for the FEAST! The word "feast" is my word for 2018, and I felt a deep satisfaction at the most recent Cynthia Winton-Henry's online dance chapel when Cynthia offered me the word "feast" in the poem by Rosemerry Trommer. As we moved, we contemplated its words and images. I have been honoring it all week as I moved into the Easter/Passover weekend.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and scuffed and scorned,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and the kitchen is warm and full</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">of laughter. We hum as we work</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and break into scraps of song.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All day our hands are joyful</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">as they prepare the meal to come.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are wars and battles even now,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">not all of them fought with guns,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">some waged intimately in our thoughts,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">our scraped up hearts. And still,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">as it bakes, this inner insistence</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">it is every bit as real as our fear.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">or water in chipped clay cups,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">there is every reason</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to be generous, to serve not only</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">but also those we don’t yet know how to love</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and those parts of ourselves we</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in the dinner—we all are caught.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Scent of sage, scent of mushrooms</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and cream. The bite of cranberry.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Never mind the potatoes cooked too long.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Blessings seep into all the imperfect places,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">even if you can’t name the blessings—</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The point is not to understand the feast,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">but to eat, to eat it together.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>but also those we don’t yet know how to love</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>and those parts of ourselves we </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have been moving with the redemptive idea of loving all of myself, peeking through the fear, anxiety, and sometime depression to find and hold the love, joy, and talents that are perpetually present along side those less positive feelings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am beginning to understand that if I can truly witness the parts of myself that are good and whole, I will not linger on the forces that tear me apart. All are present - ingredients in the soup. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With this keen practice of finding the good in my messy soup, I can better learn to locate and be present to the good in all of those surrounding me - friend and stranger alike. The community soup of love - a VERTIABLE FEAST of love in presence of that which also destroys us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Which do you choose? The having of the good? Savoring that good with others? Or letting those less taste-worthy ingredients to spoil your/our soup? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am practicing choosing the FEAST of good flavors and ingredients, knowing the other is present but not allowing it to prevent the nurturing presence of the good.</span><br />
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Ruth Schowalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03106140875246572230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2733812559283418635.post-80245919912074873562018-03-20T08:11:00.000-04:002018-03-20T08:11:05.949-04:00Contemplating Flower Memories<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It is the Vernal Equinox. Spring begins today. Hallelujah SPRING!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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morning I am contemplating last night’s online Dance Chapel with Cynthia
Winton-Henry. It is on this “mysterious” Zoom platform with Cynthia that we embody
our intentions and prayers through movement, reflection, and witnessing across
multiple time zones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Geneva; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Last
night’s theme was “flowers” all that they may offer literally and figuratively.
How wonderful to be invited to contemplate the flowers in my life that my body
holds. Just think of your life time in connection with every flower you’ve come
in contact with. I imagine we all possess so many body memories that we are
filled from head-to-toe with flowers – a body vase!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b style="font-size: medium;">EMBODYING FLOWER MEMORIES.</b> <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Art by Hallelujah Truth)</span></i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 11.5pt;">I was in
my mother’s womb when she visited Amsterdam to see the tulips, and I grew up
with the photos she took there of the bright yellow, red, white petalled
tulips. They are part of me. I remember when I was six years old collecting jars
of spent orange and yellow marigolds and later in second grade, scraping my own
garden with a kitchen spoon to plant purple petunias because at that time
neither of my parents gardened. My father upon retiring from the military
planted more than 100 rose bushes in our backyard, and he knew each one of
their names. I did too. One season, I gathered multiple 5-gallon buckets of
rose petals that I gave to an artist friend who made paper from them. For a
couple of years, I worked at a plant nursery in Auburn, Alabama, and lived the
life of perennial flowers and herbs. I tended these plants, cut them back,
folded them into butters, breads, and teas.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Geneva; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These
days after have garden plots in community gardens, I resign myself to gardening
in a north facing apartment courtyard. I have tried to grow perenials – day lilies,
black-eyed susans, monarda, pineapple sage, coneflower – to no avail. My shady
plot of land next to the parking lot does not gather enough sun to propagate
flower life of this sort. Instead, I treasure the lantana and butterfly plant
that draw in the butterflies. I try to keep alive alfredi greggi to bring the
hummingbirds into my life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Geneva; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I am so
grateful to be reminded of the flowers in my life! And to dance on behalf of
them. These days, I see most flowers at the Atlanta Botanical Garden and am
thankful for an annual pass.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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remembering and reflecting on flowers special to us and telling stories, we
were also guided to think about flowers and the simplicity with which they
unfold. Cynthia offered us these words from Grace Cooke (White Eagle):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #595959; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Flowers do not force their way with great strife.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #595959; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Flowers open to perfection slowly in the sun.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #595959; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Don't be in a hurry about spiritual matters.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #595959; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Go step by step, and be very sure.”</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">I find
grace in these words. I hope you might too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11.0pt;">So as Spring
2018 unfolds, I will gather more flower experiences and try to remember to
dance them. That’s Coffee with Hallelujah! Soul blog with me about your flower
memories and being. Do you have a favorite one? Why?</span></div>
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<o:p></o:p>Ruth Schowalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03106140875246572230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2733812559283418635.post-8868971401988108532018-03-15T09:23:00.000-04:002018-03-15T09:23:09.814-04:00Choosing the Idiosyncratic Language of the Individual<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“We must recapture our personal and idiosyncratic language
so that we may speak about our personal and idiosyncratic life.” </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>–Peter London</i></span><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whenever I begin to feel disheartened about the art I create,
I return to Peter London and his book “No More Secondhand Art,” which in 1994 gave
me a satisfying explanation of what I was doing with my visual imagery when I
read it for the first time. At that time, I had been making art for about six
years. Then a writer and poet, I found my metaphors had begun leaping from the
page to the canvas demanding to be viewed rather than read. I was transformed
from writer to painter.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The intensity I felt to create visual images overcame my
fear of making “good” art. I was driven to speak from a force within. This
force had no need to conform with social norms and expectations. I became
dedicated to the “process” of speaking without developing an attachment to what
I was saying when I made images, the “product.” I engaged in this artmaking process
without showing my work to the public for more than 10 years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In this way, I developed the early stages of my own visual
language. Yes, when “experts” began looking at my work, they used dismissive words
such as “derivative,” and “primitive.” Yet there were others who were attracted
to my soul work. I knew even then that I should not be pulled in either
direction towards criticism or praise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I knew I had to speak my own idiosyncratic language regardless
of what others were saying to me about what this “language” was or wasn’t. This
determination to listen to my “gut,” to “see” my visions, and to “speak” about
them how I wanted to took perpetually crumbling courage. I continue to fight
the outside critics that summon my inner critic, but I practice “doing” and “making”
anyways.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I look for support from those tribes to which I belong.
Thus my return to Peter London in order not to be gagged:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: #38761d;">“There are some
disabling myths about what art is, how to do it, what is good art, and what art
is for, that have gagged generations, depriving them of a significant and natural
means of expression. This is a terrible loss and an unnecessary one. The
purpose of this book [No More Secondhand Art: Awakening the Artist Within] is
to address that situation and return visual expression as a natural and full
language to every person and to enable everyone to employ this means of
expression to do what all language does, to speak about the world as it is, and
to create a world of our choosing….</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>CHOOSING THE IDIOSYNCRATIC LANGUAGE OF MY SOUL. </b>The images you see here are pieces of the syntax of my soul. Let me tell you about several of them.The snake in the top image was one of the first "nouns" to appear in my visual work, a result of a series of dreams back in 1988. I continue to "speak" snake in both noun and verb. The four petalled flower appeared perhaps 10 years ago when I began contemplating "choice." I begin with a circle that I divide into four sections, which represent infinite choice of north, south, east, and west. I remind myself of this choice every day. The heart experiencing growth is fairly new, entering my language about 4 years ago. I especially love the "roots" and how I often associate them with my feet. This image is still emerging and growing and teaching me what I need to know. <i>(all art by Hallelujah Truth)</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh Hallelujah to creating a world of our choosing! Especially
in these times of political duress, I know that I can choose to create GRACE
from the mundane to the mysterious using my idiosyncratic voice. I hope you
will choose to do the same! That’s Coffee with Hallelujah!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Ruth Schowalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03106140875246572230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2733812559283418635.post-40605572965366842372018-02-19T07:24:00.002-05:002018-02-19T07:24:54.726-05:00Laughing Alligator: Dancing on the Heart<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB-rTwyQmcmdrjxmnFbgQDqK_Zu_zX-Yv4DJMlqnTV8iSPPvAy8FhepvDm0Asp58uk3VHfjeQX_QvXlCTZ5lv2htmxKGDV2IQ_FnI0uOvtL03M5qIK0m50jsCI51a10qkxIhC8rUhsq0kT/s1600/Alligator+Laughing+Hallelujah+Truth6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="635" data-original-width="769" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB-rTwyQmcmdrjxmnFbgQDqK_Zu_zX-Yv4DJMlqnTV8iSPPvAy8FhepvDm0Asp58uk3VHfjeQX_QvXlCTZ5lv2htmxKGDV2IQ_FnI0uOvtL03M5qIK0m50jsCI51a10qkxIhC8rUhsq0kT/s320/Alligator+Laughing+Hallelujah+Truth6.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>DANCING ON THE HEART</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes! Yes to LAUGHTER! And why not in the form of an alligator? The imagination is free from rules! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The night renews me. And in my daily creative practice, I am greeted by this alligator dancing on my heart. Hallelujah for the imagination! Hurray for creativity! And an affirmative to the dance of life.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sometimes breaking the rules is just</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sometimes there are no rules.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZUSzdFIOCkSwwKs3McYRPvhmmU2RVjqk19PkQVoE2vxUG_FHYyH90zI47E02ZCP9caczW-AGylB32CKak7xKftHno5IaMmJm9huKIOt91quDk85mL7wpm71FPZjdHseXDiB8SmghEx7Cg/s1600/Alligator+Laughing+Hallelujah+Truth4.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1065" data-original-width="427" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZUSzdFIOCkSwwKs3McYRPvhmmU2RVjqk19PkQVoE2vxUG_FHYyH90zI47E02ZCP9caczW-AGylB32CKak7xKftHno5IaMmJm9huKIOt91quDk85mL7wpm71FPZjdHseXDiB8SmghEx7Cg/s320/Alligator+Laughing+Hallelujah+Truth4.jpeg" width="128" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I remain open to the stuff of dreams. At predawn, I dance my prayers not knowing where they go or what they do. My musings, my pencil lines, my cats, all colliding with the coffee and my husband eating cereal with almond milk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This I do know, the practice of GRATITUDE - reflecting on the good in my life - waters me like I'm a flower. Hope drizzles on me like this morning's precipitation. Tao, our cat has refused to stay outside on such a wet dark morning. My husband has kissed me good-bye before the sunlight touches our front door. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmoOs_NyBBtS1sZznQvo_s_BZEQ0u5hURsgPrHWACFPMcEwBFBII-x70MS7dJK4apklg-E3NvYXnO6mJA5pHSxOFEFr_HR1FLW2qbIF6zuytXfZEr2YVnPfB9xTivw7mDUL1Kq5YGyPu_6/s1600/Alligator+Laughing+Hallelujah+Truth1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1166" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmoOs_NyBBtS1sZznQvo_s_BZEQ0u5hURsgPrHWACFPMcEwBFBII-x70MS7dJK4apklg-E3NvYXnO6mJA5pHSxOFEFr_HR1FLW2qbIF6zuytXfZEr2YVnPfB9xTivw7mDUL1Kq5YGyPu_6/s200/Alligator+Laughing+Hallelujah+Truth1.jpg" width="145" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yet, I am here dancing with my Laughing Alligator and the Mother of Mystery. I am savoring the pizza dinner we had with Dottie last night and the workshop for the Atlanta Science Festival we are creating through our collaboration. I am remembering the text I received from a Korean graduate student in London after she gave her presentation. I am thankful for connection with my soul, with all of the people in my life, and with you if you have taken the time to read my blog and look at my images.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you for joining me in this dance of creating grace from the mundane to the mysterious. Have a beautiful day!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's Coffee with Hallelujah! Soul blog with me. Let me know what you are dancing!</span>Ruth Schowalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03106140875246572230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2733812559283418635.post-76145674208882897982018-02-18T11:24:00.001-05:002018-02-18T11:24:41.173-05:00TOUCHING THE DIVINE: Finding Holiness in Continuity of Practice<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is a practice - this creating grace from the mundane to the mysterious. It is a daily creative practice to rise in the morning, brew</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> my coffee, tend to the cats' needs, light a candle, burn incense and to move into the dance of the spirit through my artwork. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My "Coffee with Hallelujah" art making is directed towards touching the Divine with pencil, paper, eraser, and watercolors. I celebrate the Mystery through my crudely rendered drawings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This moderately cool morning I am up before 5:00 AM and opening a window after walking my male cat Tao out in the darkness of predawn. The birds have started singing, and I want to hear them as I do my meditative drawing. I take pleasure in the fact that my dear husband Tony is still resting in bed upstairs and our female cat, Sapelo, is running up and down the stairs uniting us through her feline visits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This daily creative practice is "hit and miss," messy, and almost always unfinished. Yet, I succeed in grabbing hold of the intangible by the sheer act of embracing and filtering it into a drawing. It is in these productive moments that I experience positive emotions. I pick up different colored pencils and scratch my marks onto the watercolor paper. Joy! The bright red pencil thrills me. Then my violet pencil marks run into the green and the yellow rises like the sun as the paper absorbs the water. Peace.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The paper dries. I have refilled my coffee cup. I like how the steam rises above its rim. I observe the results of my soul work - my 15 minutes (plus) of creativity. Albeit, the positive emotions I experience are perpetually balanced with negative ones. Judgment rushes in once again! How is it that I found the process to be an "act of grace," and yet I am dissatisfied with the physical outcome? I repeat the mantra: Not Good. Not Bad. Just Is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Life is messy and unfinished. Why should I ask my soul work to be anything more or less? There is satisfaction staying in process, exercising the discipline to create. Continuous acts of creativity whether they are experienced inwardly or outwardly define and expand me. I grow older and a bit riper.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Older now, you find holiness</span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">in anything that continues."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> - Naomi Shihab Nye</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>FINDING HOLINESS IN CONTINUITY.</b> This watercolor pencil image was created this morning (February 18th, 2018) and felt connected to the above image, "Touching the Divine," which is still a work in progress beginning as a mono print months ago and then used as a drawing surface this past week. In this image, I am expressing "self care" or "soul care" for myself. Yet, I am also encompassing the universe. By caring for ME, I AM caring for the world. I am better prepared to love and accept you after I have forgiven myself and taken time to rest. In the continuity of my renewal, I renew you - or at least I would like to think that I do. <i>(Art by Hallelujah Truth)</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's Coffee with Hallelujah! Soul blog with me. I would like to know if you are maintaining your daily practice? And are you practicing creating grace from the mundane to the mysterious?</span>Ruth Schowalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03106140875246572230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2733812559283418635.post-24364838203588761482018-02-11T14:29:00.000-05:002018-02-11T14:29:02.566-05:00Improvisational Movement and Art/Altar Collaboration at Dance Church<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hallelujah for Dance Church on the second Sunday of every month at the Decatur School of Ballet. In addition to the magic that takes place by "moving our bodies" in any which way we please - improvisational movement - in community with other participants, Brian Sherman and I have been improvising art on the Dance Church altar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our lives have collided sporadically over the years whenever we both happen to be able to attend this once-a-month "dance church" from 10:30 to noon on a Sunday morning. At Dance Church, we are invited to bring and place items on an "altar" while we are dancing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I first started paying attention to the Dance Church altar when I became aware that Brian was bringing a lot of copper in varying forms of pennies, wires, and other objects. The randomness of his objects drew me in. I was fascinated by his birdlike gathering of bright objects, and he seemed to have some unstated principle that dictated how they were collected and placed in different containers.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Was it the improvisational dancing that "moved" me to start interacting with Brian's found and gathered objects? I found myself taking them out of the containers and arranging them in patterns that felt satisfying. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Soon after my initiating the first arrangements, Brian informed of his only "rule." I was not to put anything away once the object was "out." He has an organizing principle for his collection of objects and how he stores them. Fine by me. I function at my best creatively when I know my parameters.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;">COLLABORATION #3</b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;">(by Hallelujah Truth and Brian Sherman)<br /></i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Over time, I felt comfortable enough in this receptive environment of Dance Church to start bringing tablets of my art work. I have a "display" principle myself, one that is easily carried out in this open nonjudgmental environment. I like to "control" the viewing of my work. That is, I like to offer the viewer, a certain limited time to see my work, and then I conceal it, offering another work to see. (Yes, please ask me about this. I find it fascinating how I interact with viewers of my work and have much more to say about it.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyways, what you are viewing here in this blogpost is the outcome of the collaborations Brian and I made today. What do I love most about them? The nonverbal emergence. Brian and I don't talk during the Dance Church.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiJvZ4iF8N2lWOPukqi9oO7c5io9wcjRjno3KbAGzKMa3LV1VFd-j79KU-ANw0ec4Hcu_f5HysXML0aQr4WDdE7c5pL9bA-YZMJpf7cgWIwRktq4SAVSQZYExdGqbI7G6CtOR_BAdofFCI/s1600/Ruth+Schowalter+Brian+Sherman6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiJvZ4iF8N2lWOPukqi9oO7c5io9wcjRjno3KbAGzKMa3LV1VFd-j79KU-ANw0ec4Hcu_f5HysXML0aQr4WDdE7c5pL9bA-YZMJpf7cgWIwRktq4SAVSQZYExdGqbI7G6CtOR_BAdofFCI/s400/Ruth+Schowalter+Brian+Sherman6.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="color: #660000; text-align: left;">COLLABORATION #4</b><span style="color: #660000; text-align: left;"> </span></span><i style="color: #660000; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">(by Hallelujah Truth and Brian Sherman)</span></i></td></tr>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Instead, he brings out sets of objects in containers. I put up my pad of drawings. We dance. We move. We look. I arrange objects. I turn the page on my pad of drawings. Brian brings out objects. Maybe, he shifts his container of objects.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I watch him. He watches me. We dance. We rearrange. We appreciate each other's offerings. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj96NzRfm1XYDQdrjayUMp44jT5FMfUp3TELd1-kUbBxs5qU06eCRkJ1UMRX_UmwOSXD3uVVPDlx8_syvk0tt79Xd3zv6JFQAlwmw1XEIm34mHiicGcCstCfiTQRW2mla_hjXVlLR47AEqy/s1600/Ruth+Schowalter+Brian+Sherman4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj96NzRfm1XYDQdrjayUMp44jT5FMfUp3TELd1-kUbBxs5qU06eCRkJ1UMRX_UmwOSXD3uVVPDlx8_syvk0tt79Xd3zv6JFQAlwmw1XEIm34mHiicGcCstCfiTQRW2mla_hjXVlLR47AEqy/s400/Ruth+Schowalter+Brian+Sherman4.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: small;"><b>BRIAN MOVES TO THE ALTAR.</b> We created a dance of moving towards and away from the Dance Church altar during our 90-minutes of dancing and co-creating.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I find that I don't need to know a lot about what is going on in our collaboration. Moving. Looking. Seeing. Creating. Recreating. Without speaking feels satisfying.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="color: #660000; text-align: left;">COLLABORATION #5</b><span style="color: #660000; text-align: left;"> </span></span><i style="color: #660000; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">(by Hallelujah Truth and Brian Sherman)</span></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;">COLLABORATION #6</b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;"> </span></span><i style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">(by Hallelujah Truth and Brian Sherman)</span><br /></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have known that Brian is a retired sociology professor and has a radio program on WRFG, a local public radio station here in Atlanta. He has been kind of enough to buy Tony's books. Tony and I both feel supported by Brian. And there is this art thing. I like experiencing it rather than trying to understand it.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: small;"><b>BRIAN SHERMAN AND HALLELUJAH TRUTH.</b> Brian has made me more conscious about documenting what we do. Hence the photos I took today, and the photo of us together taken by Tony Martin at the conclusion of Dance Church.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dance Church was perfect for Tony and me today. We both needed to release the tension from our bodies after attending a three-day conference in Savannah, Georgia and four hour to and from the Georgia coast. Thanks to Dance Church, we had such a sweet, connective time, moving and dancing with others in our Decatur community. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And for me, I co-created with Brian! What do you think of our collaborations? </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's Coffee with Hallelujah! Soul Blog with me! What might you improvise today with someone else?</span><br />
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<br />Ruth Schowalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03106140875246572230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2733812559283418635.post-39773276996299820082018-02-06T08:36:00.003-05:002018-02-06T08:36:56.907-05:00RELEASE--Two Hands Dancing<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hallelujah for moving and creating grace from the mundane to
the mysterious! Our creativity can be found in movement in going to that deeper
fuller place in ourselves. In this movement, this act of making something from
breath and from one hand (or two hands) moving, comes <span style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">RELEASE</span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This morning, I woke to my daily creative practice to
express the outcome from my participation during last night’s online dance
chapel with Cynthnia Winton-Henry. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dancing with my hands….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One hand moves jerky, slow, fingers tense—contorted. This is
my chaos, my gargoyle (thanks Cynthia for the word “gargoyle”).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The other hand, like a bird, fingers lax, smoothly rides the
currents above, hovering a witness to my chaos. This is my grace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two externalized emotions experienced through the
physicality of two hands moving—dancing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the core of these two hands is my breath and beating
heart. They are the music for this dance. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My hands are witnessed by all of me, eyes, mind, heart, and
gut…. I observe a shift in feeling. My hands court one another, like birds in a
mating ritual. Breathe in. Breathe out (infinite X’s). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>RELEASE.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That’s Coffee With Hallelujah! Soul Blog with me! What dance
will you create for yourself today? Let’s create grace for ourselves and others
from the mundane to the mysterious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cynthia Winton-Henry’s Monday night Dance Chapel. Last night, we played with
the dance of chaos and release—one hand dances jerky and smoothe…play with
chaos. We found ways through movement together (yes online) to open the space
to feel the chaos—a deeper place, which allowed our bodies to have fullness.</span></div>
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Ruth Schowalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03106140875246572230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2733812559283418635.post-18682054528213203412018-02-04T13:23:00.001-05:002018-02-04T13:23:50.788-05:00Regeneration: Collaboration of an Artist and Scientist<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">"Burrows acted as a midwife in the birth of Gaia." </span> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>-<a href="http://www.georgialifetraces.com/about-the-author/" target="_blank">Tony Martin</a>, The Evolution Underground</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“One of the functions of art is to give people the words to know their own experience… Storytelling is a tool for knowing who we are and what we want.”</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: fira-sans, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25em;"> </span></div>
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<i style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Ursula K. Le Guin</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dear Readers,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This story weaves together tales of a marriage between an artist and a scientist, who are both educators striving to use images and words to create and capture their experience and the story of a burrowing animal named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lystrosaurus" target="_blank"><i>Lystrosaurus</i></a>, which survived a major extinction more than 250 million years ago by <span style="color: #660000;"><b>BURROWING</b></span>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since my dear husband and I are without children, years ago we established a creative quest to deepen and enrich our marriage. We pledged to find concrete ways to co-create as a route to develop our skills of negotiation, to discover, and to give birth to something unique forged by our bond.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the past, we have rented an artist's studio together and collaborated on art pieces for an exhibit at our local natural history museum (see this<a href="http://memestudio.blogspot.com/2011/12/entires-for-science-online-2012-art.html" target="_blank"> </a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://memestudio.blogspot.com/2011/12/entires-for-science-online-2012-art.html" target="_blank">blog</a>), we have cultivated a researcher's lifestyle for Paleontologist Barbie who travels to ichnological wonders of the world (see blog entires <a href="https://coffeewithhallelujah.blogspot.com/p/paleontologist-barbie.html" target="_blank">here</a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">), blogged about our field experience in Montana (<a href="https://coffeewithhallelujah.blogspot.com/p/creataceous-summer-2014.html" target="_blank">here</a>), and we've developed science communication workshops (see this <a href="http://atlantainterplay.blogspot.com/2016/03/improvising-trilobite-eyes-interplaying.html" target="_blank">blog</a> and <a href="https://interplayschowalter.blogspot.com/2018/01/using-interplay-for-science.html" target="_blank">blog</a>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Recently, though, I have felt an urge to write about our micro-collaboration in his book, <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-evolution-underground-anthony-j-martin/1124109369" target="_blank">The Evolution Underground</a>, which came out last year (2017) in February. We joined our forces together to make one image of <i>Lystrosaurus</i>. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ_BOA-xvkg0WHz32SYIRqztT8xDqnP2NOB9Pv1THAKbTB5qTSGIWtZzR4K0Ka_slmQ4dxYqCGK3Na9aIAIlrp8V-ePD1KcfKwFlZnXqIqrA7c-NWv_x0-KHvU2f0fnqSej_-_MKmh4LOX/s1600/Lystrosaurus+Regeneration+Halleluljah+Truth6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="823" data-original-width="900" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ_BOA-xvkg0WHz32SYIRqztT8xDqnP2NOB9Pv1THAKbTB5qTSGIWtZzR4K0Ka_slmQ4dxYqCGK3Na9aIAIlrp8V-ePD1KcfKwFlZnXqIqrA7c-NWv_x0-KHvU2f0fnqSej_-_MKmh4LOX/s400/Lystrosaurus+Regeneration+Halleluljah+Truth6.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="color: #660000;">COLLABORATION OF AN ARTIST AND SCIENTIST.</b><span style="color: #660000;"> After we discussed what the image might show, I drew the outline depicting the story. Tony used Photoshop to color and texturize the image. We knew we wanted the image to depict hope and continuity. </span><i style="color: #660000;">(Art by Hallelujah Truth and Tony Martin)</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But which came first in my experience to take action to visualize the <i>Lystrosaurus</i> story? My MARRIAGE (Tony and me)? HALLELUJAH (me)? Or the SCIENCE (Tony's ichnological knowledge)? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Me! This wisdom to place myself first in the vast realm of paleontological knowledge and alien terrain where my marriage takes me, was given to me in the early 2000's by a dear family friend, <a href="https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/atlanta/obituary.aspx?pid=150855007" target="_blank">Melissa Walker</a>, who told me to anchor myself, my "ME-ness" first. She advised me to find the value in our co-experiences that nurtured and sustained me. Thus fed, I could venture from a profoundly strong stance into my collaborative marriage and integrating scientific knowledge into my humanities background. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Therefore, Hallelujah to my Truth, to ME, First! It is now February 2018, and I have wanted to acknowledge the Hallelujah Truth image I made that preceded the image that Tony and I made (pictured above). Ta da! I am presenting "Regeneration" here (below). I am in the <span style="color: #660000;">BURROW</span> with <i>Lystrosaurus</i>. I placed myself there because I know about <span style="color: #660000;">BURROWING</span>. Don't you?</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: small;"><b>HALLELUJAH IN THE LYSTROSAURUS BURROW.</b> I learned from a friend to be present in my husband's life meant being fully present in myself. Finding the "why" in traveling to outcrops in foreign lands, looking at rocks all day, and living and breathing ichnology as a way of life. I find my way in not intellectually, not with my head, but with my heart. Making art is an active way to move into feeling and experiencing new thought. I draw myself to presence myself. Did I become <i>Lystrosaurus</i>? Ha ha! No, but I acknowledged myself as a BURROWER. Being human requires us to pluck ourselves out of our daily/weekly regimens and to rest, recover, regenerate. Returning to our lives restored feels to me like a rebirth. <i>(Art by Hallelujah Truth)</i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">MOVING TOWARD FULLNESS.</span></b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> What is life if not a movement towards fulfillment of our potential? If we are lucky enough to survive the onslaught of life's wounding arrows and its cataclysmic disasters, we are given second, third, fourth, <i>ad infinitum</i> chances to try again. We might even begin to "play" and "enjoy" these times of regeneration. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i style="color: #660000;">(Art by Hallelujah Truth)</i><span style="color: #660000;"><i><br /></i></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I drew on my <span style="color: #660000;"><b>BURROWING</b></span> experiences to empathize with that of <i>Lystrosaurus</i>. Amazing to me that Tony could visualize animals surviving the worst mass extinction with such simplicity in a childlike mythic tale. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: small;">HALLELUJAH EMPATHY. I allow myself to feel in order to connect. I draw to envision and to connect. I learn as a result of feeling and taking action. I am enlivened and ready to collaborate because of being anchored in SELF. It also helps to be a BURROWER (one who claims time for introspection and renewal).</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As a true collaborator in my marriage, I asked Tony to write something for this tale of our marriage and <i>Lystrosaurus</i>. This is what he offered: </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"In a book about burrows, burrowing animals, and how
burrowing animals have used burrows to survive catastrophes throughout earth
history, I knew </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lystrosaurus</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> would
have a starring role. Species of this stout-legged, dog-sized reptile, which lived
about 250 million years ago (20 million years before the first dinosaurs) and
survived the worst mass extinction in earth history. What probably helped them
to survive a runaway greenhouse effect and ecological collapse? Burrows, which they
dug and used as safe places in normal, everyday life, but which really came in
handy when outside environments got more and more hostile to other animals. So
I thought the best way to convey a sense of Lystrosaurus as a survivor – and
one that survived because of its burrows – was by telling a fictional story
centered on one female </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lystrosaurus</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
that underwent a Joseph Campbell-style “hero’s journey” during a time of mass
extinction. I think it worked well for communicating many scientific ideas
connected to </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lystrosaurus</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> as a survivor,
but it also was a lot more fun to write. Ruth's idea of our creating a collaborative artwork, and one that expresses emotional and spiritual connections to this tale, somehow completed it." -Tony Martin</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I began this tale of my marriage and our <i>Lystrosaurus</i> collaboration, I imagined "stealing" lines from Tony's <i>Lystrosaurus</i> story, but I think I will save that story for another time or let you read about it in his book, <i>The Evolution Underground.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let it be said that not just anyone can make you cheer on a reptile from 250 million years ago as it climbs out of a </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>BURROW</b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> to discover it might be alone, and that its species may have been annihilated. Since I am one who thinks in myth, responding to the world in metaphors, I was completely captivated by the <i>Lystrosaurus</i>'s story of survival and found myself identifying with its journey. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Perhaps I'm coming out of another <span style="color: #660000;"><b>BURROWING</b></span> experience in my life right now. It feels good to write my Coffee with Hallelujah blogposts again after a year of silence. I have returned to the surface after a year-long submersion in my <span style="color: #660000;">BURROW</span>. I continue to collaborate with my dear husband as we soon head off to Savannah, Georgia for the Southeastern Evolutionary Perspectives Conference. We will conduct two workshops together there! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's Coffee With Hallelujah! Soul blog with me. Tell me about your <span style="color: #660000;"><b>BURROWING</b></span> experience(s). Are you in or out of your <span style="color: #660000;"><b>BURROW</b></span>? May I suggest that we create grace from the mundane to the mysterious as we move forward in 2018?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:</b> Deep gratitude to my husband and collaborator. <a aria-controls="js_1en" aria-describedby="js_1eo" aria-haspopup="true" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1444203318&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3Anull%2C%22groups_location%22%3Anull%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/tony.martin.77770" id="js_1ep" style="cursor: pointer; letter-spacing: -0.11999999731779099px; text-decoration: none;">Tony Martin</a><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.11999999731779099px;">, author, paleontologist, ichnologist, and artist, here holding the cast of a burrow made by a marine invertebrate from the Georgia coast. He is a professor of practice at </span><a data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=42543126981&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3Anull%2C%22groups_location%22%3Anull%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/EmoryUniversity/" style="cursor: pointer; letter-spacing: -0.11999999731779099px; text-decoration: none;">Emory University</a><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.11999999731779099px;">, where he has been teaching for 28 years. -photo by </span><a data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=555299567863340&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3Anull%2C%22groups_location%22%3Anull%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/lisasalexanderstreibart/" style="cursor: pointer; letter-spacing: -0.11999999731779099px; text-decoration: none;">Lisa Alexander Streib Art</a></span>Ruth Schowalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03106140875246572230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2733812559283418635.post-56777411840167909212018-02-01T08:27:00.001-05:002018-02-01T08:27:05.268-05:00The "F" in February is for Flourishing<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy February 1st! I believe in <span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">MAKING MAGIC</span>. Do you?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I move into the second month of 2018, I am continuing my daily practice by creating grace from the mundane to the mysterious. Will you join me?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If we want to experience love, let's generate that love in our relationships to self, others, our surroundings and for our Earth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If we want to feel peace, let's create that peace in our lives through our thoughts and actions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If we want joy, let's move from that "happy place" we all have in our hearts and illuminate it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If we want to manifest our dreams, let's act from a sense of abundance and gratitude.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My word for today is <span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>FLOURISH. </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I keep fresh flowers on my dining room table as often as I can because their presence reminds me of the perpetual unfolding of life and possibility. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let's begin this month of February with the belief and action towards flourishing each day for ourselves. Let's make a pact to create grace from the mundane to the mysterious. Let's move forward playfully. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">YAY!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The "F" in February is for Flourishing!</b></span><br />
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</b></span>Ruth Schowalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03106140875246572230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2733812559283418635.post-44759297520761534362018-01-30T10:17:00.000-05:002018-01-30T10:17:36.493-05:00The Ask<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I am asking us to love and respect one another.</span> </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">GROW LOVE FOR YOURSELF AND ALL OTHERS</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Is that too much to ask?</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>I HALLELUJAH YOUR TRUTH. </b>I dance and pray that we all may experience universal respect and unconditional love. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I dedicate this blog entry to Cam Muskelly, a young paleontologist who Tony Martin and I both know and respect deeply. He is exceptional in every way. His dignity. His paleontology outreach in his community and beyond. His support of those living within the autism spectrum (he knows from firsthand experience). Thank you Cam for leading the way for science education, love, and hope. </span><br />
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Ruth Schowalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03106140875246572230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2733812559283418635.post-67696089410645414592018-01-28T08:46:00.002-05:002018-01-28T08:46:58.654-05:00Contemplating the Blessing in the Seed<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hallelujah for Coffee with Hallelujah! If you have 15 minutes for coffee, you have time for 15 minutes of creativity! That time that I "claim" and "name" for my SPIRIT to speak is a PRECIOUS SEED. What will grow from this contemplative creative practice?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the second week of January 2018, I danced during Monday night dance chapel with Cynthia Winton-Henry and other participants, holding my imaginary seed in my hands (see this <a href="https://coffeewithhallelujah.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-blessing-is-seed.html" target="_blank">blog</a>) to discover what blessing might be present. We contemplated this poem:</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #990000;">The blessing is in the seed.</span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #990000;">(Muriel Rukeyser, 1913 – 1980)</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now, towards the end of January, I return to the dance and drawing, "The Blessing is in the Seed," generated from my Dance Chapel experience. As I paint and fill it with color, my intention is to SEE what is growing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Are you like me? Do you experience delight in viewing the incremental progress of seeds that you have planted emerging from the ground? Does the first glance take your breath away? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am a gardener. Almost nothing fills me with more wonder than being in discussion with the plants that inhabit my space. I observe them and ask, "Do you need water?" "Do you need to be cut back?" "Do you need more light?" "Is it time for more plant food?" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Right now, I am contemplating being a GARDENER OF MY SPIRIT and what questions I might have for the SEED(s) of my SOUL. The same questions apply I think. How about you?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's Coffee with Hallelujah. What PRECIOUS SEED are you going to shine light on today and cultivate with questions?</span>Ruth Schowalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03106140875246572230noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2733812559283418635.post-38475090886482717252018-01-27T10:34:00.000-05:002018-01-27T10:41:58.539-05:00Repetition as Practice<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My art practice is a daily <span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;">repetitive</span> <span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;">act</span>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This morning, I'm contemplating the <span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;">value of repetition</span> in my daily creative practice. It is all too easy to dismiss repetition as an act of a dullard. To repeat implies to "copy," and copying implies a lack of novelty--the ability to "create" something new.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I imagine that my <span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;">"repetitive acts of art"</span> serve the greater need I have to release judgment each morning as I sit down to draw and paint.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">NOT GOOD.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In another way, my exercise of beginning my morning drawing with the familiar, with what I know, is a "spiritual" practice. My first steps follow a well worn path. I walk. I dance. I linger. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The visual images I create and repeat are internal experiences. I "see" them emerge in and out from a haze, something like the way messages appear in the children's toy <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Crazy+8+ball&client=safari&rls=en&source=univ&tbm=shop&tbo=u&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj3jdjIvfjYAhXq7YMKHb1EDjYQsxgIKg&biw=1174&bih=739" target="_blank">Crazy 8-Ball</a>.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>OCTOPUS WOMAN 1.</b> <i>(Art by Hallelujah Truth)</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These images are collections of real world experiences synthesized with my imagination over time. For example, I offer you the image of my beloved Australian Aboriginal Creation God, Wandjina, which is part of my "Cosmos of Hallelujah." As I have drawn him repeatedly over the past 10 years or more, Wandjina and I have developed a relationship. His presence in one of my drawings has symbolic meaning for me, which only repetitive drawing could have forged.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now, I am inviting new symbols to emerge in my cosmos. I introduce<span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;"> OCTOPUS WOMAN</span>. This "Octopus Woman" results from my real world viewing of octopi over time in various media, aquariums, and on the coast; the repeated drawing of Mother Mystery (a woman in a hijab) which is a part of my Cosmos like Wandjina; and Cynthia Winton-Henry's offering of the octopus as a symbol offering wisdom.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Without the repetitive act of drawing over time, I would be without my cosmos, without a way to "track" the spirit of my creative life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That's Coffee with Hallelujah. I'm curious. Do make "repetitive acts of art"? What are they? What do you learn from them?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OCTOPUS WOMAN 3. </b><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These numbers are arbitrary. The variations of Octopus Woman here are a result of the App Paintbrush. This morning I used a micron pen to outline the pencil drawing that I watercolored yesterday. and posted in this blog: <a href="https://coffeewithhallelujah.blogspot.com/2018/01/intuitive-feast.html" target="_blank">Intuitive Feast.</a> </span></span><i style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(Art by Hallelujah Truth)</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;"><b>ACKNOWLEDGMENT.</b> Thank you <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Goldberg" target="_blank">Natalie Goldberg</a>, author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Down-Bones-Freeing-Writer/dp/161180308X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1517066864&sr=8-2&keywords=writing+down+the+bones" target="_blank">Writing Down the Bones </a>for this statement for the release of judgment: </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">NOT GOOD. </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">NOT BAD. </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">JUST IS. As frequently as I use this proclamation, I must acknowledge it did not originate with me.</span>Ruth Schowalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03106140875246572230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2733812559283418635.post-37531333914569649912018-01-26T08:47:00.000-05:002018-01-26T08:47:10.601-05:00Intuitive Feast<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tracking the spirit requires tools! One of the most powerful tools for me is intuition. I lean in body, heart, mind, and listen really hard...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And I listen...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am listening now....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I move into 2018, I am focusing on the word FEAST. To find and experience the feast in my life, I am calling in all of the intuition practices I have. Of course, drawing and painting is one of those practices.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is a new image, the "Octopus Woman," that began emerging in 2017. She entered my life as friend, mentor and co-founder of InterPlay, Cynthia Winton-Henry became interested in the symbolism of the octopus and established the Octopus Guild on Facebook. There, members post images and videos of octopi that cross their paths in the course of daily life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you google "symbolism of the octopus," you will find that this beguiling 8-legged animal in the sea offers us a variety of human qualities to contemplate--creativity, flexibility, expansion, and intelligence, to name a few.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">INTRODUCING OCTOPUS WOMAN. The title of this image is "Intuitive." In 2017, I discovered Octopus Woman while contemplating the symbolic meaning of the octopus. Since the immaterial world of the spirit is a difficult one to "track," I use tools to engage with my spirit. A daily creative practice of drawing and painting combined with intuition are powerful mechanisms for eliciting this elusive part of our lives.</span></b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><i style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Art by Hallelujah Truth)</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have decided to expand the visual symbolic "Cosmos of Hallelujah Truth" in 2018, and Octopus Woman is the first symbol to manifest. As I expand my cosmos, I envision a "feasting table" with all my characters gathering around it bringing their gifts.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's Coffee with Hallelujah. As I expand my creative universe and develop my 2018 word FEAST, what symbols might you engage with? How will they move you forward? Although I don't know what "Octopus Woman" is going to bring to my table, I am leaning in to listen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Will you join me? Soul blog with me and let me know what you are thinking.</span>Ruth Schowalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03106140875246572230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2733812559283418635.post-11280702890589010522018-01-25T09:30:00.001-05:002018-01-25T09:30:46.232-05:00Tracking Spirit<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>QUIRKY ANGEL. </b> <i>(Art by Hallelujah Truth)</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Busy? Where are you physically and spiritually? Have you had your Coffee with Hallelujah today?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I track my spirit in my daily drawing and painting. Nonverbal lines and color collaborate to express my BE-ingness! Quirky angels appear and linger. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>TRACKING SPIRIT.</b> BE-ing present to my spirit. I draw and paint. I experience LOVE in my morning meditation. Smiles emerge on my face. Images appear before me.<i>(Art by Hallelujah Truth)</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After some years of tracking my spirit this way, I have generated long trackways of imagination. My repetitive acts have created containers for the mystery of my soul.</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvkOuqRxxXkwQpLw9qgae0XIdy4sg5Sn63uCdKXGMde9w38CwGwiNfaAbqwg3AZeSA4bLVCmhLstZDAeAf71lo10rpr4PL8rtAZe_UZZP7E667QHgy1AwQ8RQJZbaCj0BhzPDvy2xbj4dL/s1600/Restoration+American+Oystercatcher+Hallelujah+Truth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1453" data-original-width="1600" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvkOuqRxxXkwQpLw9qgae0XIdy4sg5Sn63uCdKXGMde9w38CwGwiNfaAbqwg3AZeSA4bLVCmhLstZDAeAf71lo10rpr4PL8rtAZe_UZZP7E667QHgy1AwQ8RQJZbaCj0BhzPDvy2xbj4dL/s400/Restoration+American+Oystercatcher+Hallelujah+Truth.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>RESTORATION.</b> This image that I completed today during my Coffee with Hallelujah began 3 or 4 years ago and tracks my focus which was directed at the plight of the American Oystercatcher. This morning during my 15 minutes of creativity, I titled it "Restoration." My intention is to connect my personal practice of "restoring" myself to that of "restoring" the environment. How can we care for our natural surroundings if we do not nurture and learn how to rejuvenate ourselves? <i>(Art by Hallelujah Truth)</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's Coffee with Hallelujah! Are you tracking your spirit? If so, how? What do you see? Soul Blog with me! Post your results on The Daily Creative Practice on my Facebook group. </span>Ruth Schowalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03106140875246572230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2733812559283418635.post-67263627562352552012018-01-24T09:06:00.002-05:002018-01-24T09:06:43.716-05:00Holding Hands of My Soul Family<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Holding Hands of My Soul Family</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Impeccability of a Daily Creative Practice<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: small;"><b>HOLDING THE HANDS OF MY SOUL FAMILY.</b> <i>(art by Hallelujah Truth)</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hallelujah for the Daily Creative Practice! I am so thankful for Coffee with Hallelujah!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Coffee equals TIME.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hallelujah equals SPIRIT.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Coffee plus Hallelujah equals TIME WITH MY SPIRIT.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The above is the mathematical equation of my life. Every morning, I choose to be present to the MYSTERY, the DIVINE, the UNKNOWABLE--to take precious moments and dwell between the boundaries of the known and unknown.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My first and foremost methodology is drawing and painting. Then I look for a way to share the magic which results from the TIME I have spent with my SPIRIT. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hence, this blog, Coffee with Hallelujah!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>HOLDING THE HANDS OF MY SOUL FAMILY.</b> I have just spent my daily creative practice this morning revisiting and working (playing?) with this image which originated in October 2017. Often my works are unfinished as I move away from my coffee with Hallelujah and out into the day. The wonderment of unfinished works by the spirit is that they continue "living" beyond their birth. This image of me (Hallelujah Truth) with Mother Mystery (left) and Wandjina (right) reassures me of the expansion of self. That self that exists in dream time and the imagination. In the early hours of darkness, I spent time having my hands held by the unseeable mystery. I feel nurtured, comforted. <i>(Art by Hallelujah Truth)</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you for being a witness to my daily creative practice. I invite you to Soul Blog with me here and tell me what occurred in your morning. Did you have Coffee with your Hallelujah? Would you consider playing with your spirit 15 minutes every day? What might happen?</span>Ruth Schowalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03106140875246572230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2733812559283418635.post-66428122674410776672018-01-23T07:28:00.000-05:002018-01-23T07:28:08.757-05:00THE DAILY BAPTISM: SO WE CAN BEGIN AGAIN<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">“The truth about morning
is that it is the small light of the beginning breaking through, again and
again. It is a wisdom so large and clear, one which carries us through our
lives so quietly and completely that we seldom see it.” </span></span></div>
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political times in the United States, I seek renewal, regeneration,
restoration, rejuvenation…. I reach and stretch my bodyspirit to replenish my
faith in myself and humanity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #1d2129; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">It is before morning's first light that I experience this baptism. I
dance. I light incense and burn candles. I open books. I drink coffee. I meditate as I draw. Then as
dawn breaks, I am ready. These <o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.13333334028720856px;">repetitive acts have prepared me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #1d2129; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">In the world beyond my front door, I am ready to create grace
from the mundane to the mysterious. I restore myself, knowing that my rejuvenated grace extends to
you. I find solace in the knowledge that you and I are connected. And I reach to
you with open arms to receive your grace back to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #1d2129; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">These two images, which
are result of my daily creative practice from one year ago, surprised me when
they popped up as my Facebook “memories.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I marvel how the words and symbols soothe me one year later. This
predawn experience not only brings me a sense joyful laughter but also AWE.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><b>THE RIVER OF THE BABY.</b> On the morning of the 2017 inauguration, I woke renewed
from a dream that had replenished me. As is my practice, I took action to
capture the precious gift from my subconscious in the creative act of drawing. This
incomplete image that resulted expresses some of that magical renewal. In
contrast to the angst I was experiencing surrounding the change of presidential
power in the United States, "The River of the Baby," holds a sense of
fragile fertility for me.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">In that dream of renewal, I am chasing my cat
Sapelo who has escaped on the Georgia barrier island o</span>f Sapelo (the
origin of her name). She is leaping in out tall grasses, and when she
disappears, I follow her to a stream. There in the stream is a newborn baby.
Before my eyes the baby grows into a woman who has another baby.<br />
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I experience the flesh of this human genesis as being such an intricate part of
nature, the stream bed, the ferns, the Earth. I'm overwhelmed by the delicacy
of the environment and the living breathing creatures, the water, and the
richness of the soil and rising green plants unfolding. This immense beauty
renews me. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.13333334028720856px;"> </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.13333334028720856px;">(January 20, 2017, art by Hallelujah Truth).</i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>FIDDLEHEADED NEWBORN.</b> In
my playful efforts to find peace in these troubled days of uncertainty with
U.S. presidential power that we cannot trust to serve the good of all, I have
found a place of "rebirth." This image is based on a dream the night
before the 2017 inauguration. I was chasing my cat Sapelo into the woods and
found a fragile newborn in the river bed. Before my eyes the
"Fiddleheaded Newborn," transformed into a woman who then gave birth
to another child. Amidst all of this fragile flesh being generated was such
intense beauty. We are all so beautiful and the Earth that embraces us and
supports our existence is so immensely fecund. Yet, at the time, I experience
the fragility of our existence and the imperative that we must care for one another
and our Earth. <i>(January 22, 2017, a work
from the series Creating Grace from the Mundane to the Mysterious, Hallelujah
Truth)</i></span></span></div>
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<o:p></o:p>Ruth Schowalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03106140875246572230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2733812559283418635.post-26293621198719219062018-01-21T11:33:00.000-05:002018-01-22T06:20:55.679-05:00What's Your Water?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Embracing Water</b> <i>(art by Hallelujah Truth)</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>WHAT'S YOUR WATER?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">An intriguing question! I've been contemplating this question since I attended the <a href="http://www.onehundredmiles.org/" target="_blank">100 Miles</a> Second Annual Conference on Jekyll Island, Georgia, USA, last week (January 13th). The renown marine biologist, movement maker, and visionary, Dr. Wallace J. Nichols, passionately spoke about WATER with an evangelical fervor!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: small;"><b>WHAT'S YOUR WATER?</b> The question asked by Wallace J. Nichols at the beginning of his keynote talk at the 2018 100 Miles Conference on Jekyll Island, Georgia, USA. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Someone a while ago asked me which one of the four elements (Earth, Water, Air, or Fire) I most identified with. The questioned haunted me for some reason. In part, I felt challenged. I had always held all of the Earth to be very dear. Why would I choose one element to embrace in particular?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then one day when I was hiking with my boon companion, Tony Martin, on <a href="http://arabiaalliance.org/" target="_blank">Mount Arabia, a national heritage </a>area close to where we live in Decatur, Georgia, I had an epiphany! I was hopelessly and madly in love with ROCKS.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: small;"><b>YAY ROCKS! </b>Of the four elements, I have fallen deeply and madly in love with ROCKS. Here I am at Mount Arabia, a <a href="http://arabiaalliance.org/marvelous-monadnocks/" target="_blank">granite monadnock</a>, which has its own rich ecosystem. <i>(photo by boon companion, Tony Martin)</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For those of you who know me, you know that my boon companion and husband is a paleontologist, and even more importantly, an<a href="http://www.georgialifetraces.com/about-the-author/" target="_blank"> ichnologist</a>! Since we met in 2001, I have spent innumerable hours out in the world on, at, surrounded by, and embraced by ROCKS. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These ROCKS have histories! Rich in story, they can tell us about how the earth evolved, rivers that flowed through them in ancient times, fiery powerful forces uplifting them and downshifting them, and life (like dinosaurs) that walked upon them and left their traces.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I adore the smell of rocks, their rough and smooth surfaces beneath my feet, and the vast and various colors! Yay ROCKS! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So imagine my surprise at being asked to shift my mindset to WATER at this 100 Miles Conference (I have always seen the 100 miles of our Georgia Coastline as an inseparable duality of land and sea). Why should I consider the question: </span><b style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WHAT'S YOUR WATER? </b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Why is this question relevant and why is a research associate at the Academy of Sciences asking it? <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: small;"><b>Wallace J. Nichols</b><br />#100MilesGA 2018</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Because the health of our Earth's waterways and oceans is dependent on each of us connecting with WATER in a personal way! It is not enough for us to "know" the facts that our oceans are at risk from rising temperatures, overfishing, and pollution. We must also "feel" impacted by those negative changes as a result of our relationship to WATER. From connection comes responsibility, and from responsibility, action.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The only way we are going to succeed in engaging ourselves and others in conserving WATER is to get EMOTIONALLY involved. It is not enough to espouse water's value intellectually through education of its economic value and the balance of ecological systems! NO!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We must love WATER wholeheartedly with both our minds and--significantly--OUR HEARTS!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Imagine a scientist inviting us to name our WATER. What is your experience with water? Can you name the body of WATER you first went swimming in as a child? What kind of activities do you do with WATER? How does WATER make you feel? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Wallace J. Nichols wrote an entire book -- <a href="http://www.wallacejnichols.org/122/bluemind.html" target="_blank">BLUE MIND</a> -- exploring the role WATER plays in our lives. As a scientist, he looks to neuroscience to explain the benefits to us humans at an emotional and health level. In the works is a new book, "The Seven Ages of Water," in which Nichols explores from birth through death the cognitive, emotional, psychological, social, and spiritual benefits of healthy waterways and oceans.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>ALWAYS INCLUDE "BLUE MIND."</b> The summary slide of Wallace J. Nichols' keynote talk at #100MilesGA celebrates the role of WATER in our lives. He emphasizes that we all need access to water at every stage of our lives. He also encourages conservationists and scientists to be present to the universal need of humans to connect with water and to share this "Blue Mind" awareness in their public outreach. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>BLUE MIND. </b>For a week, I have been contemplating what my "Blue Mind" might be. Right now, I am dancing with my WATER, open to feeling the connection I know I have. For the past three days, I have been drawing this "Blue Mind" image, meditating on the various water experiences in my life. I am so thankful for this opportunity to expand my heart in connection with the Earth. In a short 7 days, I am thinking differently about WATER. It is almost like I am hearing its pulse. And that pulse is amplifying. In the future, I will write more about my WATER experience.<i> (Art by Hallelujah Truth, aka Ruth Schowalter)</i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>OUR BELOVED GEORGIA COAST.</b> In answering the question "What's Your Water," I can make this claim: My WATER(s) are the coastal waterways along the coast of Georgia and the marshes and fresh waters on its barrier islands. I have had the enormous privilege of spending time up and down the 100 miles of our Georgia coast as Tony Martin researched and wrote his book, <a href="http://www.georgialifetraces.com/" target="_blank">Life Traces of the Georgia Coast</a>, and now works with his Emory colleagues the digital project, <a href="http://www.georgiacoastatlas.org/" target="_blank">The Georgia Coast Atlas</a>. Here we are on Ossabaw Island, December 2017. With each visit to the Georgia coast, I fall more deeply in love with what we locals call the Golden Isles. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That's Coffee with Hallelujah for now! Soul Blog with me. I want to know your answer to the question: </span><b style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WHAT'S YOUR WATER?</b></div>
Ruth Schowalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03106140875246572230noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2733812559283418635.post-40063997963724040862018-01-16T11:10:00.000-05:002018-01-17T07:16:05.819-05:00I AM A LOVER OF THE LAND<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hallelujah for our beautiful Earth! Hallelujah for all of us who are Earth lovers and caretakers. Hallelujah for conferences like #100MilesGA that bring together conservationists who inhabit the 100 miles of Georgia Coast. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This past weekend (January 13th), I attended the second annual 100 Miles Coastal Conference on Jekyll Island. The theme of this conference was "Choosing to Lead." I was asked several questions about my involvement in taking environmental action for the Earth related to climate change and our Georgia Coast.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I didn't have a ready answer. And I really wanted one. After all, aren't I involved in environmental activism? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1. I am the wife and field assistant of the author of <a href="http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=806767" target="_blank">Life Traces of the Georgia Coast</a>. (All you have to do is read the book and see how present I was in my husband <a href="http://www.georgialifetraces.com/blog/" target="_blank">Tony Martin's</a> jaunts up and down the Georgia Coast and the majority of its barrier islands. I supported his research and documented his work through photos and blog posts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2. Even before Tony's <i>Life Traces</i> book came out, I had illustrated a children's story, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Misadventures-Maria-Hutia-Ron-Shaklee/dp/1477674004" target="_blank">"The Misadventures of Maria the Hutia,"</a> set in the Bahamas and about endangered species there. The book is used in the Bahamian schools.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">3. Over the years, I have generated numerous images and written blogs about the Georgia coast. See these blog posts as examples: <a href="http://coffeewithhallelujah.blogspot.com/2011/03/life-cycle-of-moonsnails-lions-of-tidal.html" target="_blank">Life Cycle of the Moon Snail: Lions of the Tidal Flats</a>, <a href="http://coffeewithhallelujah.blogspot.com/2010/09/eternal-sacred-images-we-find-ourselves.html" target="_blank">Eternal Sacred Images: We Find Ourselves in Nature</a>, <a href="http://coffeewithhallelujah.blogspot.com/2011/05/substituting-beauty-for-spiritual-carol.html" target="_blank">Substituting Beauty for the Spiritual: An Interview with Carol Ruckdeschel</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">4. I began a collaboration on the life-cycle of the American Oystercatcher with Jenifer Hilburn, then the ornithologist on St Catherine's Island. See a couple of the blog posts that documented this process to get the idea of our collaboration: <a href="http://coffeewithhallelujah.blogspot.com/2013/10/blogtoberfest13-day-8-getting-inside-egg.html" target="_blank">Getting Inside of the Egg</a>, <a href="http://coffeewithhallelujah.blogspot.com/2013/10/blogtoberfest13-day-31-embracing-hope.html" target="_blank">Embracing Hope as a Strategy for Conserving the Environment</a>. I would love to complete this body of work in the future to bring attention to endangered animals along the eastern coast of the U.S.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">5. For the past several years, I have been integrating the improvisational system of InterPlay with science communication. In addition to training undergraduate science majors, international scientists and researchers how to express their ideas more effectively, I engage the general public in "play" around topics of evolution, the environment, water monitoring, and science as fact. Here are two blog posts: <a href="http://atlantainterplay.blogspot.com/2016/03/improvising-trilobite-eyes-interplaying.html" target="_blank">Improvising Trilobite Eyes: InterPlaying with Evolutionary Concepts at the Atlanta Science Festival</a>,and <a href="http://atlantainterplay.blogspot.com/2016/04/shyness-evaporates-college-science.html" target="_blank">Shyness Evaporates: College Science Students Use InterPlay Storytelling Methods to Convey Their Nature Observations.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But, how do I condense what I do into one polite concise but descriptive response? I find myself lacking confidence in the face of a lack of clarity. I need a vision statement that will embrace it all!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Perhaps I am a LOVER...A LOVER of the land as author, poet and wildlife ecologist <a href="http://j. drew lanham" target="_blank">J. Drew Lanham</a> talked about the closing keynote of the 100 Miles Conference this past Saturday. He equated being a lover with being a conservationist. Here is his definition of conservation:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Conservation is caring about something intensely enough to save it for later for others."</span> <i><a href="http://jdlanham.wixsite.com/blackbirder" target="_blank">-J. Drew Lanham</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This caring for the environment equates LOVE. We are LOVERS, those of us who care for the land, striving to take action to save it for later for others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Could my answer be: "I am a LOVER of the LAND. I care intensely enough about it to save it for later." ?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That's Coffee with Hallelujah. Soul Blog with me. I want to know what you are doing as a caretaker for the Earth? Do you care intensely enough about the Earth to save it for later for others? Are you too a LOVER of the LAND?</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="color: #a64d79;">PERPETUATE</b><span style="color: #a64d79;">. This image began back in 2014 as an outcome of the work that I was doing with the ornithologist, now </span><a href="http://altamahariverkeeper.org/" style="color: #a64d79;" target="_blank">Altamaha Riverkeeper</a><span style="color: #a64d79;">, Jenifer Hilburn. We were collaborating on a story about the American Oystercatcher. She was the scientist taking action to perpetuate the life of this coastal bird, and I was the artist, listening to the plight of this endangered species and interpreting the emotion of the situation. Titled, "Perpetuate," this piece was an "outside" image from our storytelling effort. That is, I put myself into the image as the central figure as way of engaging myself personally in our conservation storytelling. By being front and center is the way I figure things out. I put myself into the Georgia Coast landscape. In viewing the life cycle of the American Oystercatcher, I was able to see where it nested in a "scrape" nest on thin bars of marsh land covered with oyster shells. The nests are threatened by rising sea levels, predators, and mindless boat visitors. In my hands, I hold "Baby New Soul," who embraces a baby alligator. Yes, there appears to be a story here. Stay tuned. (art by Hallelujah Truth, aka Ruth Schowalter)</span><br /><br />ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Thanks to Tony Martin, whose amazing life's work takes </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />One of my gracemakers is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Nepo" target="_blank">Mark Nepo</a>. When I am seeking calming thoughts, I open his meditations, "<a href="http://marknepo.com/books_awakening.php" target="_blank">The Book of Awakening</a>." This morning, I am contemplating the soothing aspects of nature. And, then using nature as metaphor. Mark Nepo writes: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">"The ear is only a petal that grows from the heart. When we hear each other, it all becomes a gar</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">den."</span><br /><br />In this image, I have created ears that are pitcher plants. I am listening to you all as I practice creating grace from the mundane to the mysterious in my art making. You are my LIFE GARDEN! And </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I ask you all to SOUL blog with me, sharing your thoughts on the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">theme of the wonders of nature. In these times, I am truly appreciating all of you fellow creatives from around the world. I invite to</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> post your words of hope and grace. Or you can join me on my Facebook Group, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/125480317640649/" target="_blank">The Daily Creative Practice</a> and post your photos, drawings, dances....etc...that soothe our souls in these times of angst.</span></div>
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Ruth Schowalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03106140875246572230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2733812559283418635.post-65215340783296310532018-01-12T09:21:00.000-05:002018-01-12T09:21:11.998-05:00Improbable and Beautiful--As though I had wings<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hallelujah for seeds, wings, beauty and all that is improbable but possible! Hallelujah for imagery, dance, and music--for the song in our hearts and the lines that I draw.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As 2018 opens up, I am mulling over where I want to fly and what noble and ordinary things I want to do! Nothing decided yet except that I want to have fun and to play along the way and while being and doing. I will be using "easy focus" for sure. Wheee...!</span><br />
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</span>Ruth Schowalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03106140875246572230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2733812559283418635.post-81256964319775672902018-01-11T08:41:00.000-05:002018-01-11T08:43:33.437-05:002018 FEAST FOCUS<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>FEAST FOCUS.</b> My intention for 2018 is to keep my focus on the GOOD. There is so much of that goodness in my life, why not direct my gaze at it? This takes the practice of restraint. Each time I turn my head to what is "not good," I will practice turning my head back to what is abundant and resplendent in my life. In addition, I will look towards the "ordinary good" as extraordinary. My plan is to diminish the negativity and embellish all else. This image of Hallelujah with the seed represents "heart growth" gained from focusing on the feast. (art by Hallelujah Truth, aka Ruth Schowalter)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hallelujah for 2018! Hallelujah for posts in our life fence that allow us to begin all over again!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dear Readers, what word have you chosen to guide your actions in 2018? I discovered my word while traveling in Argentina. I experienced such an overwhelming sense of abundance, that the word FEAST chose me.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Opportunities to integrate InterPlay with teaching American English fluency</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Facilitating improvisation (InterPlay) as a way to improve science communication</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hard honesty given to me by trusted friends</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are so many other jewels in my life that I am not mentioning here, but you get the idea--right? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This FEAST FOCUS requires me to restrain my peripheral vision. Yes! I can see all that is wrong in my personal universe and the ripples of your universes and the world's. 2017 with the Trump presidency shut me down. Some personal challenges with relationships dampened my joy. Lacking vision hampered my creative growth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am asking that this 2018 FEAST FOCUS allows me to regain my spirit, my umph--that which makes me feel vital and juicy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That's Coffee with Hallelujah this morning! I invite you to share your 2018 word and to give an explanation if you care to. What are you leaving behind and moving forward towards.</span>Ruth Schowalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03106140875246572230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2733812559283418635.post-61860180554572367632018-01-09T13:23:00.000-05:002018-01-09T14:16:56.486-05:00The Blessing is in the Seed<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This was the poem Cynthia read to us before she invited us to move with our hands cupped, embodying or holding the SEED.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">I held my SEED as I danced. I moved about my room with the lights twinkling on the fig tree and Norfolk pine. I envisioned the SEED opening up and becoming a pair of wings--a butterfly. I saw a bivalve opening and revealing a pearl. Then my arms moved and I felt like a SEED springing open in the ocean swimming with the vastness of Life.</span><br />
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I experienced the SEED on multiple levels of thought, emotion, and body. For me, this experiential sense of of new beginnings is a way to feel vital and juicy and creative.<br />
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How many of us are casting SEEDS into the new year of 2018? Not all of the seeds we sow will grow, but isn't it wonderful to think of all seeds as a gift, a blessing, from which good things might originate?<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am so grateful for the spiritual direction that Cynthia offers, the community that she has created for our Monday night online Dance Chapel, and the wider InterPlay community, that supports me in finding and validating my own reality through experience. This kind of authenticity is a treasure.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #454545;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">This image of me, Hallelujah, represents the many SEEDS I have for 2018. I know that the blessing is the SEED, but not all the things are blessed. I await the joy of discovering which SEEDS come to fruition. And I wish you the same. That's Coffee with Hallelujah! Soul blog with me and tell me what new beginnings 2018 holds for you? What SEEDS do you possess?</span></span></span><span style="color: #454545;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><b></b></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b style="color: #783f04;">DINOSAUR-RHEA JANUS TATTOO.</b><span style="color: #783f04;"> I created this image as a tattoo for a fictional Argentine ichnologist, created by my dear boon companion, <a href="http://envs.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/martin_anthony.html" target="_blank">Tony Martin</a> in his work-in-progress. The tattoo incorporates the head of a Cretaceous theropod dinosaur and that of an extant rhea, a large ostrich-like bird that roams the Argentine pampas in the same places where dinosaur fossils are found. The image has been stylized to reflect some aspects of the art of the indigenous people who inhabited the lands that are now Argentina. </span><i><span style="color: #660000;">Art by Hallelujah Truth, aka Ruth Schowalter</span></i></span></td></tr>
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2018 and all that we have to discover in the upcoming months!</i></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Hallelujah for travel both
geographically and in time! Hallelujah for the imagination that allows us to
take the present and past and merge them together to either tell a story or
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the head of a birdlike dinosaur from the Cretaceous (looking to the past) with
the forward-looking head of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhea_(bird)" target="_blank">rhea</a>, a large Argentine flightless bird (similar to an
ostrich) that roams freely on the pampas. Their shared evolutionary ancestry is
represented by one large foot that could be both dinosaurian or avian. The foot
is important since Tony’s character is an ichnologist, one who interprets
behavior in the past from fossils including tracks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--StartFragment--></a><span style="color: #783f04;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museo_Carmen_Funes" target="_blank">Plaza Huincul’s Museo Municipal Carmen Funes</a>. For the tattoo image, I used the profile of the dinosaur's head to the left of Tony. Notice how bird-like these dinosaurs are! </span><!--EndFragment--><span style="color: #783f04;"> </span><span style="color: #660000;"><i>Photo</i><i> by Hallelujah Truth, aka Ruth Schowalter</i></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">One of the reasons that
Tony and I went to Argentina during the winter break this past December was to
explore and visit some of the paleontological riches of this South American
country. We also wanted to understand both its indigenous and European culture.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Thanks to our Argentine
friends - paleontological colleagues of Tony’s - we learned about the Aguada people
who lived in northwest Argentina from 700-1000 and the motifs they used on their
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZEtel9X7YBE_ylxHtNgrexaj_sXmbOYNmR9dYN4pH5FX5ZAHADaIrU7IPQco2OaNN1a71eZWywV-xFfHIreGjTvs6d71TbTJkdpV5fHdv5A5cxF2TplqpgV_8i2VN6f_LuLN6Z9gYlGBH/s1600/Aguada+Culture+Suri.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="506" data-original-width="720" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZEtel9X7YBE_ylxHtNgrexaj_sXmbOYNmR9dYN4pH5FX5ZAHADaIrU7IPQco2OaNN1a71eZWywV-xFfHIreGjTvs6d71TbTJkdpV5fHdv5A5cxF2TplqpgV_8i2VN6f_LuLN6Z9gYlGBH/s400/Aguada+Culture+Suri.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: small;"><b>IMAGES FROM THE AGUADA CULTURE. </b>These images were shown to me on my first day in Argentina by Diana Elizabeth Fernandez in response to my questions about rheas and the imagery of the indigenous people of Argentina. These ancient people called this large flightless bird a "<a href="https://sp.depositphotos.com/81828948/stock-illustration-suri.html" target="_blank">suri</a>."</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Therefore, my tattoo image is informed by the imagery offered to me by Diana Elizabeth Fernandez, who is both
an ichnologist and daughter of a anthropologist/ethnographer working
with content related to these ancient Argentine people. I also incorporated other ideas I found as I searched Aguada images on the Internet, like the image below, which offered me the concept of Janus (cannot find the source, my apologies).</span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana;">This tattoo image may evolve, just as Tony's work-in-progress is evolving. I will remain open to refining it. For now I am satisfied and so happy for the opportunity to collaborate with the imagination of my husband. Our shared life brings us great adventure and joy.</span></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Acknowledgments:</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> Thanks to Diana Elizabeth Fernandez for her close listening to what
Tony Martin and I were searching for during our visit to Argentina. We could
not have had a better friend, colleague, or assistant in helping us locate
images, understand Argentinian culture, and navigate the transportation system
or Spanish language.</span></div>
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