I create these Drawing Reports every few weeks following a quiet time where I sit down and look through my artist's eye and notice something new. Also, occasionally, I write about an exercise from my book, Drawing as a Sacred Activity. I'll add you to the email list if you request to be included by sending me an email message.
Hi dear friends,
This Drawing Report will take just a minute. I have copied the text-only portion below. I have found a friend who can help me upload these drawing reports onto my website. Next time this should be ready.
There is so much change in our world at this time. It is vitally important that we take time out and reconnect with the possibilities all around and within us! Let us celebrate our capacities and demonstrate our powerful awareness of our True Identity as Consciousness. It is through our openness to unfulfilled possibilities that we experience the FLOW of creativity, each in our own way, and IT IS GOOD! Happy Holi-days!
LOVE and POSSIBILITIES!
Heather and Cindy
“The function of a cup is emptiness. The function of a wheel cannot
occur without the hole at the center. The “quick” of human relationships
emerges wherever social structure is not.”
— Victor Turner, The Ritual Process
Christmas and New Years is a great time to stop the busy rushing around, to sit down, and take a minute to look and see and feel an aspect of life that we tend to ignore. Our minds tend to focus on things that are familiar. Faces, concepts, beliefs, routines.
The things of life that pass away have no real power in them. For one minute you are going to shift your attention from the world of separate things to the world of Oneness that exists between the things and connects them.
This Oneness is a sustaining and Eternal presence. It is ongoing, ever present, changeless. It is Consciousness, pure and simple! Your artist’s eye catches glimpses of it now and then and loves to feel connected to it.
1. Find a safe, comfortable place where you can sit completely still and undisturbed for one minute.
2. You will move no muscle in your body. The only muscles to move are those that help you breath, swallow, and blink.
3. If someone does interrupt, just smile, answer their need, and try again. Be kind and generous with yourself.
4. Soften your eyes and gaze at one spot for one entire minute. Choose a spot that is slightly lower than your eye level. Let it be an edge where two things come together if possible. Select an edge that won’t move or get up and walk away.
5. While your eyes rest on one spot, notice that your awareness expands to the right and left. Notice how other senses expand. Colors and sounds become brighter.
6. After the one minute, if you can, spend another minute or two or three with your pen or pencil. Allow your slightly heightened consciousness to move the pen. Make it okay not to know what will happen. Write about this.
Be open.
You are the birth-place of a new possibility.