“It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play.” Dizzy Gillespie
Learning journeys
Watering the story
“I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you, and that you will work with these stories…water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.” ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés
What stories do you water?
Four treasures
Ink, brush, ink stone and paper have been known and used in Chinese brush painting for thousands of years. The brush is the extension of the artist’s heart, the paper the friend. Without ink no picture could emerge.
What are your creative treasures?
When practiced…
“When practiced, Sabbath keeping is an active protest against a culture that is always on, always available and always looking for something else to do.“ ~ Stephen W. Smith
How do you practice sabbath?
Forget or remember?
“While some nations vow never to forget, our American battle has always been over what we allow ourselves to remember.… The distinction between equity and injustice, riot and uprising, hinges on whose hand holds the pen. So often, it seems, our history is hiding from us, preventing the possibility that we do look back and tell the truth —afraid of what doing so may require of us now.” ~ Wesley Lowery in 400 Souls
What does our past require of us?
Lighting up
“When we look at the dreams that light up our heart,we grow the picture they paint as a go-to place.Then we say, ‘But it isn’t possible.’ We say, ‘That’s not my life.’ We say, ‘That’s just what I’d LIKE to happen, not what’s possible.’The dream should not die, just because I lack the power to make it possible. I need to identify other people who carry the same overwhelming vision, or whose heart-desires overlap with my own.” ~ Andy Raine, Northumbria
What can you do together?
With the Eyes of the Heart 