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Category Archives: art therapy
✨Enjoy Yourself (It’s Later Than You Think) 💖
I am about 15 years late to the party 🙂 but I finally watched “House”. I am a massive medical show fan but the obnoxiousness of the main character kept me from watching it for a while. I loved the … Continue reading
Make art even if it sucks — Hitrecord ‘Death’ remix
Making art is something I have missed when I was busy. In my archives I dug out this cheery 🙂 short film that I remixed using rewfoe (Hitrecord user) imagery . Perhaps I should return to creating there, there is … Continue reading
Chicken Ryaba, Buddhism and emptiness — an interpretation of an old Russian folk tale
As one of their first fairy tales, children in the Russian speaking countries used to get told an old Russian folk tale about Kurochka (Chicken) Ryaba. It is a very simple story (see below*) that is not so simple once … Continue reading
Art therapy — a piece of summer
I wanted a memento of summer for dark winter days. I did some research and found this Lego idea on internet. In retrospect I could have knit it rather than use plastic but here we are. Art therapy and seasonal … Continue reading
The day was crisp/ The light was new/ Autumn has come/ Like deja vu
Man, I forgot how much I love autumn. I was washing dishes one day and glanced outside – the light was different. It was soft as if I was in an oil painting. The angle has changed. Sunlight in autumn … Continue reading
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If it’s not fun, don’t do it! And if you must do it, make it fun!
What do you do when you are mini retired? Well, art, of course. In the Episode 94 of the Here and Now podcast Ram Dass tells a hilarious story about cooking a lobster with his father as a buddhist (from … Continue reading
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Postcard paradise. Emptiness and holidays.
You can go as far as you wish – and yet, there you are. Hope you have a joyful holiday and enjoy this poem.
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Let Go, Let In, Let Be
Ciara Sherlock read this poem that she wrote during the ritual we did at the retreat. The last line sounds like a mantra. Nomads of consciousness – enjoy. You are here, now, Nothing to achieve, nowhere to go, The tie … Continue reading
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Among Strong Men – a poem by Hafiz
I have learnt so much at and still continue to learn from the retreat. This was one of the poems and quotes that the guides have put on the wall in the hall. Hafiz is a poet from Persia from … Continue reading
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Memorial to everyday heroes in London
Postman’s Park is a a well maintained small patch of green in the heart of the City in London with a church, ancient tombstones and fountain, and flowers in bloom in any season. But its most memorable feature is the … Continue reading
Hieronymous Bosch’s “Garden of Earthly Delights” — reimagined (birds)
It has been a while since I posted about art here. There is a reason for that. It takes me years to complete an art project 🙂 This one definitely took a while… I love H. Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights:
I don’t want to forget
How to not forget this? To not let the memories fade? To keep the fire burning And see the wolf’s starry eyes in the night sky? How to remember That the void is just a hand away And that this … Continue reading
A new milestone… a new door opened… a new world discovered…
It’s been 4 weeks this week since I’ve done something nuts and hit another milestone or rather opened another door on my path. All will be revealed at the right time 🙂 For now I have so much to share! … Continue reading
The Waking by Theodore Roethke
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. We think by feeling. What is there to know? I hear my being … Continue reading
The dust dance
The dust dance We are all shit That will turn into dust. We come from stardust And return we must. In sunlit bathroom Do not go aghast When you find yourself In a cloud of dust. Skin flakes and dust … Continue reading
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