I've been tearing pages out of an old journal for my boats and found a quote this morning that I had written down.
"The human soul doesn't want to be advised or fixed or saved. It simply wants to be witnessed to be seen, heard and companioned exactly as it is." Parker Palmer
I went to find the source and found Palmer quoting Mary Oliver, "This is the first,the wildest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built out of attentiveness."
I signed up for one more class (from Fibre Arts Take Two) this year... I was interested in what Karen Olsen had to say about altering photos, paper making and paper sculpture. One of the things she suggests is changing the settings on cameras so that they aren't "auto." I've been playing with that and will continue to do so.
Thinking about the power of making choices and how we pay attention.
How can we alter things to tell a different story?
How are we altered by the things around us, by others?
From yesterday's lunch break walk:
Untrue images.
Or are they?