This week, I survived
Murder by Matcha Latte
Gaslighting by Car Dealership
Explosive Box Truck
Bald Eagle Mating
Tempestuous Teammates
Radial Kinetics
Wearing Shorts
New Moon Bleeding
Friday's Five Hours of Zoom Meetings
Therefore, this week's newsletter is different. I’m cracking a window and sharing my image collections with you along with ideas I have resting in my Boneyard of Big Ideas1.
Favorite Images: Week of 9/11-9/17
I’m an image snatcher, catcher, collector. Scrolling, saving, and screen capturing too often. When I see my images together I see an illustration forming, something intuitive, something often illusive in one image but evident in the collection, even if what it is, is a question. I don’t always review the images I gather and they often collect dust on my overfull data shelf.
I appreciate this opportunity to review my week of images together.
What fascinates me is the chance encounters that arise. For example in this this weeks collection the inherent synchronicity between the butterfly’s, the Lithuanian goddess of the tree’s, the Lithuanian grass, the gesture of prayer. I collect my images with no purpose or rhythm from random stumbles. To have a comprehensive collection is credence to psyche.
This weeks collection I might title: Hope
Boneyard of Big Ideas: Week of 9/11-9/17
Remembering Our World: If ten people made a small female figure every day for ten years, that would represent the number of years from Venus of Hohle Fels to now. Imagine a beautiful mountain of earth materials that are 35,000 handmade female goddess figures. What if we make these to remember ourselves?
21 Days of Visual Definitions: Commit to a daily practice for twenty-one days of investigating (Choose one word) Joy, Love, Beauty, Celebration, etc., capturing how that looks in your everyday life by photo documentation. After twenty-one days, examine the images to write a personal definition of what these words mean to us. This exercise is inspired by Mary Oliver's directions for how to live. (I'm pretty sure Mary is iterating on Rumi's advice2.)
*PS> This week I was invited as a guest on Thoreau College’s podcast to share my personal history and how it braids with Place Corps, the Gap year and non-profit organization that I co-founded. It’s an interesting listen for folks who are curious about intersections of education, art, and new models for learning.
I hope you all are enjoying this Sunday. I hope you have an opportunity to raise your arms up in praise for something and someone you love.
A Boneyard of Big Ideas is a place where you can park all your enthusiasm and brain firecrackers. It’s a sanctuary of good intentions that can be visited anytime. Some Big Ideas may move into reality but most are happy to retire at the Boneyard.
“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
―Rumi
What’s your method of Boneyard storage? My current method is scraps here, there, everywhere or- nowhere, that is, in here (my head). P.S. Can relate to the feeling of having “survived” wearing shorts.
I am inspired by the Boneyard. Thank you Dawn!