I love late Spring and early summer. I love everything but the high tempetures and we are into a heat wave for this next week and then a cool down, then back up again. I just cannot seem to cool down once I get heated up. But, this page reminds me of a summer ind of moment I willnever experience again.
I was so pleasantly surprised when I pulled into home from my 22 day stay with son and family. There was a riot of colors and healthy looking flowers and plants awaiting me in my little garden.
It is difficult to be the second woman in a relationship. I have said this before. But, a woman needs somethiing that is all her own. I set up my sacred space near my screened gazebo. I started flowers in egg cartons and planted them after they sprout and get three tiny leaves. They all took, incuding our little garden where I have 8 pink lady squash plants. I am adding two more trumpet plants. Each pot has a little ambiance around it. One big pot has gnomes and a mushroom, another has the mexican gods, another has a little bird, another has and angel beside it. I have a gaing ball I put on ttop of a pedestal fountain. I have my gold pans full of interesting rocks. I use a large turquoise bowl for water for birds and bees that come. I have a table off to the side of the hosue full of my alrger rocks that I am learning to polish with coconut oil and beeswax. I can go out there and feel my space surround me in comfort. Inside the tent I have an eael that my son built me, a big table with tile tops that I put my Mxican blanket over. I hae a doll vase, and I have my smudge bowl. It is my space for serenity, for peace, for calm, and I can work for hours even on hot days. I bought msyelf a personal air conditioner that you put a frozen ice pack in and it can spray or simply blow cool air if I get hot in there. I have my swing on the patio that I have coverd with a crocheted blanket that my birth mother made. Hot summer days eill not roast me. I used light material and a native [rinted sheet to cover the east and south sides of the gazebo to keep the sunlight out. I lvoe it. It loves me back.
I am doing art and rock polishing out there. On this art journal pagem I use color to tie it all together. I started out with a page I had prepped month earlier. I clean my brushes and spray nozzles onto a blank page in the day planner I am using as an art journal. I added strips of homemade washi tape. (I showed how to do ht s year or so ago on Youtube.)
I blurred the lines beyond my subject and added her face (from a National Geographic page on south american tribe). I used the yellow colored flowers around her to tie it all together.
When I was in Cali and rural areas of Columbia, south America, as a member of an international education trip, I had an experince that is fused in my brain as the most beautiful, peacful, loving incident. I had gone out into the plaintain forest and was saying a Blackfoot Prayer to help me be of use to the group. The birds (parrots) were singing/croaking softly. There were huge monarch-typer butterflies. Suddenly I felt a presence. There stared back at me dark brown eyes amidst the fronds. Joseph, a young chief of a tribe of forest people from Peru, was staring back at me and had listened to, and watched, my prayers and offerings. We never spoke but I put my hand to my heart for him. It was the most impacting thing of the whole trip. I wanted to use a woman but it will remind me of the summer in columbia with tribes from sevral different countries attending. It was a powerful few moments. This page speaks to me about that summer feeling.
Have you ever had such a spiritual powerful feeling or meeting?
©Carol Desjarlais 6.26.22
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