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Mother’s Day — Brigid Murnaghan #mothersday #poetry #brigidmurnaghan #beatgen #beatgeneration #poem https://www.instagram.com/p/CdT-_WTJ9Gp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

‘Twas ironic reading this book next to a Christian missionary student on my flight who had just completed a mission trip on the Navajo Nation and was heading back up to his NE American home and Christian schooling, not fully comprehending that similar groups in similar locations are a huge part of the reason Natives have been suffering in the first place. #epigraph #epigraphsofig #bookstagram #nativehistory #daughters (at Somewere in the Sky) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdSnUoAuSNA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

“When women’s lives are in stasis, or filled with ennui, it is always time for the wildish woman to emerge; it is time for the creating function of the psyche to flood the delta. The archetype of the Wild Woman and all that stands behind her is patroness to all painters, writers, sculptors, dancers, thinkers, prayermakers, seekers, finders, for they are all busy with the work of invention, and that is the instinctive nature’s main occupation. As in all art, she resides in the guts, not the head. She can track and run and summon and repel. She can sense, camouflage, and love deeply. She is intuitive, typical, and normative. She is utterly essential to women’s mental and soul health.” —Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D., Women Who Run with the Wolves #visionboard #wildwoman #wildheart #innergoddess #goddesslife #intothewild #rewilding #intuition #wildlings #art #painters #creators #creatives #writers #artists #soul #soulhealth #mentalhealth #stasis #intuitive #summon #repel #sculptors #seekers #finders #floodthedelta #womenwhorunwiththewolves #clarissapinkolaestes #wildishwoman #wildways https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb9Dr_bMS0l/?utm_medium=tumblr

I recently had an inspiring conversation with an inspiring artist, & I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. I’ve been reflecting on, and keep coming back to, one specific truth bomb he dropped. He said, “All it takes is one sale, one painting, to get started.” I immediately thought, ‘damn, so true.’ As I went through my notes from our conversation later, I read the truth bomb again. In the weeks after our conversation, I’ve been steadily working on more art projects - some for relaxing art therapy, some in written form, & some with an intentional outcome - and thinking about how to continue incorporating art into my daily life & career. And then it hit me - the truth bomb actually, finally went off. “All it takes is one sale” I sold my first piece of art when I was ~17, and I’ve sold several since then, even just last year. I’ve won local and state awards for my art and photography. I received a partial scholarship offer to an art institute my senior year of high school (which I declined). I studied double majors in college & I did still end up getting an art degree, but it was the extra degree, for fun. The truth is, I have had so. fucking. many. confirmations as an artist, beyond the ones above. deeper than sales & awards. Yet I have been denying myself this full embodiment for so. fucking. long. Since I was 17, maybe earlier? I’ll be 30 this year. The same is true for creative writing. NO MORE. I’ve claimed ‘transformation’ as my word for 2022, & this is part of it. I’m still working to uncover the possible source(s) of my deep-rooted conditioning that insisted I believe that I would never succeed in a career fully dedicated to my art or creative writing. Don Miguel Ruiz wrote in his book The 4 Agreements, “Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system.” Luckily, one thing that my parents always told my brother &, is that if we put our minds to it, we can be anything we want to be, so that is also engrained in my belief system. “There are good reasons why even a successful people can feel empty” It’s time to redefine success. TO ART, TO TRANSFORMATION, TO RECLAMATION https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbnt7qtproc/?utm_medium=tumblr

🔎 LIFE Magazine, 1970s #power #LifeMagazine #throwback #1970s #history #vintage #InPrint https://www.instagram.com/p/CbbOdlosIj9/?utm_medium=tumblr

#mood 😇 https://www.instagram.com/p/CWZoQ7RslIj/?utm_medium=tumblr

#haiku #hallucinations https://www.instagram.com/p/CVUKP5ssOPy/?utm_medium=tumblr

This old girl was all by her lonesome until I found her at the thrift store & turned her into a coffee candle ☕️ She’s my favorite out of this batch. A few flaws, but one of a kind. Still available 💕 @paradisepinesco 📸 by @todoroff #MadeInOhio #ParadisePines #PPCO #candle #handmade #OhioMade #CoffeeLover #NobodyRidesForFree #ParadisePinesCo https://www.instagram.com/p/CP7F9jSjJ1M/?utm_medium=tumblr

❤️‍🔥 #inferno #DanteAlighieri #OffTheRoad #CarolynCassady #epigraph #epigraphsofig #wordsbeforechapterone #beatnik #BeatGeneration #NealCassady #AllenGinsberg #JackKerouac #BookLover #bookstagram #DantesInferno #life https://www.instagram.com/p/CPT-zdJD3Bt/?utm_medium=tumblr

“Wilde” 🖋🖤 I purchased this old book with the intent of destroying it for an art project. I had not read Oscar Wilde before, but as I worked on this book, sewed & painted its pages, reading snippets along the way, I became a huge fan. I spent many hours with my hands on this book. It might be my favorite project to date. This is the only book I have let myself ruin, but it doesn’t seem ruined to me. There are a few more pages not shown here, but these are my favorites. “Oscar Wilde: His Life & Wit” by Hesketh Pearson #BookLover #OscarWilde #MultimediaArtist #MixedMedia #buttons #IndiaInk #TEMoriginal #SorryHeskethPearson #HeskethPearson https://www.instagram.com/p/COD9XbtDh6Q/?igshid=so652rxrn8go

a lot ➡️ 2 times . . . #StreetArt #Cleveland #graffiti #GunViolence (at Cleveland, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNxedDpjkM2/?igshid=157movwbmyr16

“Weeping Willow” — carborundum monoprint 🖤 https://www.instagram.com/p/CNIzRECDTky/?igshid=1myannonjco3v

#benice #stayicy #streetart #cleveland (at Cleveland, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLxC2JcF7ff/?igshid=1lf88cf767f4s

💗 #reminder #universeshit #tut (at 𝓣𝓱𝒆 𝓤𝒏𝒊𝓿𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒆) https://www.instagram.com/p/CK2XX3RFEgV/?igshid=1j82l95kre6su