Day 347 art meditation, October 19, 2023

Sometimes the clue is - and has been - right in front of me this whole time - since I started writing love-postcards of women artists to my niece, for 2 years now.

I want to write about this from a Heart level = subdued. Our egos are scanning for Big. The way I can tell this happened through my heart is that it’s been in front of me for a long time, and I didn’t see it until I saw it. But the key is that I felt it now. That’s the new behavior for me.

I THOUGHT I had a purpose for my postcards. I was writing to my niece who is away in Paris for the 3rd year. I want to feel connected to my sister and her family, since we otherwise don’t have contact, and I wanted to convert the hurt of this into connection. That was the role of the postcards, or so I thought … When I was using my mind, not my heart.

I don’t usually look up the artist from the postcard set, but this time I did, and my heart immediately fell in love with Alma Woodsey Thomas’ artwork. Bright colors and her statement, “everything is beautiful'', is a thought that kisses my own all-lines-are-beautiful … Maybe there is potential to relate on a Soul level. 

Alma didn’t fully come into her own until she was able to retire as a public art school teacher in her 60’s. The the last 50 years of her life is when she absolutely flourished creatively. How WONDERFUL that she was given the gift of that time. I think I have a new role model.

For every postcard I have written, I’m always just a little shocked that I have not heard of these artists. Racism and Sexism and ART-ISM. If ART were in our collective forefront, not war, all our lives would be so different.

So. Every one of these artists is going on my To-do list - for me to write and design Love-Letters INTO them …

And I’m excited - SO excited - because I feel like this information CAME to me very easily, it just clicked, which makes me teary, because I am so tired. This is another new idea I’ve been trying to live, to let go and allow good things to come to me, not control everything perfectly all the time, which takes so much energy. 

Every bone in my body is wanting to shut down, because there is so much new darkness in the world. This is how I was raised, to not think of my own Light, since I have more than most people. I’ve been shining my little light for 12-ish years now, from age 43 to 55, and it never stops being uncomfortable. Contemplating and showing up with my Light while other people are suffering and dying feels disrespectful. 

So this is me, continuing to feel into my own Heart-Art bundle. It’s the exact opposite of shutting down. I just want to live in this beautiful space that is beyond the Trauma, and it’s what I wish for the world. To get out of Survival mode and into our full, FULL Hearts.

Much Love,

Anne

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Image source credits:
National Museum of Women in the Arts:
https://nmwa.org/art/artists/alma-woodsey-thomas/
Smithsonian American Art Museum:
https://americanart.si.edu/artist/alma-thomas-4778
The Phillips Collection:
https://www.phillipscollection.org/alma-w-thomas-everything-beautiful
Art News:
https://www.artnews.com/feature/alma-thomas-who-is-she-why-is-she-important-1234599867/
National Gallery of Art:
https://www.nga.gov/blog/alma-thomas-life-washington.html