star for jude
Close to joy
stitching rings around joy
ephemera unearthed this week — there’s my hare constellation
trial stars
last winter stars
Mother and pop star Lady Gaga
paper machier stars
stars of light
silk stars, again
Inspiration for the morning: Mary Oliver’s poem “First Snow”. You can read it here.
And to get ‘close to joy’ for two minutes, try viewing this Gaelic song, performed in a gymnasium full of rhythmic kids, who keep a percussive beat going with plastic cups. You’ll love it!
(thank you Mary Ann’s brother for leading me to this amazing video!)
Not sure what you intended with your “trial stars” but the top part so reasonates as the aurora borealis for me!
it does look like the Northern Lights, doesn’t it? I was auditioning backgrounds for that row of house and ultimately chose something else. When I see this picture I feel a little stab of regret.
Sounds like you have the seeds for a new piece!
I see the Aurora too in that blue piece…and wonder a little that you feel regret over it somehow. But, stars, well stars are a wide open field in many ways. Mary Oliver’s poem was swell…that “no Answers were found” is just brilliant…and so too the vast silence of fallen snow.
The vast silence was one of my favorite lines too.
the singing! I love it when a whole group comes together for singing, all these youngsters especially are very uplifting; love your stars too, it is a twinkly post full of light, brightens up ‘the dark days’ , merry christmas to you Dee
Thank you Saskia. I thought those kids were kind of amazing. Merry Christmas to you too.
I love your stars especially in the cloth with the houses, to me the sky has huge bats in it, protective bats the one nearest the stars has a wolf face, the wildish woman in the sky, can anybody else see that, protecting women on earth.
thank you for commenting, Debbie. I really like to see what other people see… and I can find the bats now! They are everywhere! But I don’t see the wolf… is the wolf on that same indigo/constellation piece?
Thank you for sharing. I really enjoyed that cup song. It’s obvious those kids enjoyed themselves.
Love the radiating red threads of the Joy!
love the homes under the stars. and we really loved the gaelic cup song, awesome. thank you for leading us to that joy
Love all your stars, trials and all! And of course the Mary Oliver & video are wonderful too 🙂 I feel filled up every time I watch that video.
Thanks a lot for this Gaelic song, my grandchildren and me we love it! Your trial stars are wonderful, this great sky over these little houses. Sometime I feel like this. Have a wonderful time.
Doris
What a wonderful post, Dee! The stars…..I’ve totally fallen behind in Jude’s class, so it’s lovely to see what you’re making. Maybe I’ll join in with the stars, after the fact! 😉 I adore the constellation cloth, that is magnificent! Happy New Year! xo
this post has such positive energy.