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January 2012 – Beginning the New Year\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n
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Bob and I \u00a0hung some art on the walls in our Library.<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n
Now the room feels just right as I sit surrounded by the beauty of ART!<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n
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There is nothing that can compare with real, original art \u00a0in your home or office. Each piece holds memories as you look from one to the other. \u00a0When you buy a work of art, you are buying a piece of the artist’s \u00a0life in a very personal way. \u00a0In my own collection are works from artist friends as well as other pieces I have bought from artists I will never know personally. Each art work reminds me of the artist who made it and each holds a special place in my heart.<\/div>\n
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The lively abstract painting shown here \u00a0was painted by me. It is one of my all time favorite paintings that I did a long time ago. \u00a0I was an graduate student in painting at West Virginia University. I was passionately reading poetry by Robert Bly and William Carlos Williams. They are still my poetic mentors. \u00a0The images I recognized in their poetry cam through my brushes during those years as I painted in my stdio. There were wonderful images from nature, snow storms, rain, and the environment that we dwell in evry day. \u00a0This painting moves me every time I stop to have a deep look at it. I will never understand this painting and it still holds secrets that I find there.<\/div>\n
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There are other paintings and photographs on my walls and they were done by friends I know personally. Other works of art on my Library walls come from Africa. A young painter in Nigeria sent me this beautiful textural painting one day. It was a very big surprise. I had no idea it was coming to me through the mail, in a tight little roll, inside of a box. This is one of my treasures, among all treasures in my home. It was a gift.<\/div>\n
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The African Painting and sculpture \u00a0hang above a collection of books on a vintage primitive table. I am very fond of primitive things that I have found over the years at yard sales, basements, and unexpected places. They are often someone else’s trash and in my home they are my treasure. I have many such pieces in every room of the house. I keep them exactly as they are when I find them. I do not paint them or disturb them, but just clean them up and put them to use again.<\/p>\n

The lamp shade was made by my husband Bob. He makes beautiful art \u00a0in Stained glass and steel. \u00a0The pottery plate was made by me, \u00a0I was inspired by a vintage advertisement plate made of clear pressed glass. African statues fill the nooks and crannies of this Library. \u00a0I am always surrounded by the spirits of the artisans who created them..<\/p><\/div>\n

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A bay window allows light to flow into this room from morning till late afternoon.<\/i><\/div>\n
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While others are making stunning and ambitious resolutions for the year, I choose to just resolve to spend time each day thinking about art and poetry and the passage of time. <\/b><\/div>\n
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My resolution \u00a0for the New \u00a0Year is to \u00a0enjoy \u00a0making some \u00a0knitted items in the solitude of my cozy home; sweeping the wooden floor of my porch with a fiber broom to clear it of the new \u00a0snow that the western winds have blown there; watering and tending to my plants while they safely wait inside the house for their time to once again return back outside after winter has passed; pausing to admire \u00a0my little African Violet plat (I started from a leaf). \u00a0It is about a year old, and won’t be ready to bloom for quite awhile yet. There is time for that. No hurry.<\/div>\n
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I finally started writing in my journal today, too. \u00a0I wonder why I put it off, keep in on the back burner like I do. I write it on the computer, print it out, then put it in my binder that is labeled “Journal.”<\/div>\n
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The pottery bowl \u00a0was a welcome Christmas gift from our daughter Heidi. \u00a0I cherish \u00a0this piece of pottery. What I like about it is the natural color of the glaze, the kind of clay that the potter used, and the way she carved deep geometric and symmetrical patterns in the clay. \u00a0Another reminder of Heidi is on the wall. There is a set of three drawings that she made years ago. The three drawings are placed vertically in one frame. They look African, too. \u00a0Her drawings have a tribal feel to them.<\/div>\n
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I would not trade one small piece of hand made art from this room, for an entire room full of expensive commercial art made by the thousands and sold at slick department stores. \u00a0Here in my Library, \u00a0each piece is priceless to me.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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