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Sneak peek of what I’m working on. Maybe I was a hummingbird, because I’m so little (5, 3”) and my fluttering heart seems to be too big for my body. So I’m trying to tie these dynamic Trochilidaes into a heart shaped opalescent prism of light beams. Meditating on how my favorite artists illuminate the dark corners of who we are by recognizing both our strengths and weaknesses. Art unites our exterior and interior worlds, shows us that we are more alike than unalike, and fosters compassion, understanding and spiritual growth. Changing the narrative from that of fear and emergency; motivating each other to open our eyes to beauty, and wonder. After all, we are emotional creatures who define who we are by what we know through the stories we tell. Btw, if your still reading this, I think you might enjoy my most favorite podcast Hidden Brain 🧠 @hiddenbrain #artist #trochilidae #hummingbirds #wip #hiddenbrain #tiffanybozic #acryliconwood #paintingbirds

I love this episode of Hidden Brain! So much to learn about happiness:  https://www.npr.org/2020/07/31/897673162/you-2-0-our-pursuit-of-happiness

I listened to a #hiddenbrain podcast this morning and a sermon on Sunday that seemed to converge on this Ertz quote. In the podcast, the psychologist Sheldon Solomon recounts an epic story where a man stumbles upon lamenting creatures who he later learns are immortal humans. When he encounters Homer - Homer shares that the reason for his lament is that ”If you live forever it's impossible to write the Odyssey at least once.” In other words, it may be precisely because we are physically mortal that we have reason to move, act and create while we are here. In the sermon, my pastor, @jennlwilliams recounted a story of reclaiming a rainy day and capitalizing on the unexpected ”margin” in her life, that day she chose, not to lament as Homer did, but to play and create lasting generation-spanning memories with her kids and husband- perhaps another kind of immortality was tapped that day? The immortality of living on in memory. Of course, she’d likely be the first to remind us that neither of these is the ”immortality” we all truly seek-the immortality of the soul and the longing to spend all that time near the One who created it. #bettertogetherSC #Iwant2CUSoar (at Summerville, South Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2yuu9UlAYK/?igshid=13ivumccrv9in

— Hidden Brain (@HiddenBrain) July 23, 2019

Great episode! Check it out!

Hidden Brain - Why It's Literally Not Wrong To Say 'Literally'