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I have finally completed it. I took all the canvas strips off the branches and wrote the responses to our prompt “Beauty is….”. They will be in the mail to you today Laura. This is a project I would like to continue in our work together~ actively seeking the community’s input. I don’t think we have ever received over 250 responses on a blog post, but people were very eager to respond to us in person. It is nice to recognize that technology has not taken over all of our communications. The human to human conversation is still more important than texting and emailing. It will be interesting to watch technology evolve over the next 25 years and how we will all use it. Obviously it is great for many uses, including sharing our work with others but I am waiting for the pendulum to swing the other way so that we may all have a better balance between screen time and face to face time/face to nature time. This is just one of the points I learned through doing this project with you. I want to thank Enough Pie for creating an inspiring vision and event. It really has energized me to see artistic ideas coming through cracks, meandering through rooms, and busting through the rectangle frame.
Laura and I will be talking about the responses in the next few weeks and how it will inform our work. We will let you know how we will move forward right here on the blog.
Here are the results (warning- this is looooong)
Beauty…..
Is natural. LEF
Is bashfull
Is freedom and the health to enjoy it
Is cleo’s smile (drawings)
Is if you love life everything will be ok
Is God’s love for us
Is right in front of your eyes
Is real
Is Delsy (drawn hearts)
Is not all it’s cracked up to be
Is friendship…life…world…love
Is an Italian mountain town
Is…Don’t cry make someone smile
Is comfort, contentment in the moment
Is the warmth of friendship with like-minded souls
Is…Make every day count
Is…You are my sunshine ~ Lilly Bridges
Beauty must be defined as what we ARE, NOT what we can be
Is being confident
Is what makes you happy
Is only what you describe as beautiful
Love is bearing beams of light especially when times are darkest.
Is flowers
Is ART
Is the joy I feel right now
Is an opinion
Is artists which is everyone sharing
Is not being afraid
Is life, love, and happiness
Is an unsolicited smile
Is diversity
Is taken for granted
Is my husband in the morning
Is a measurement of soul, a story of light
Is the love of Jesus shining through
Is a glory ~Carys, age 6
Is love
Is expressing yourself through dance
Is a genuinely happy smile
What is beauty?
Is dreaming
Is self-inflicted
Is waking and being so happy (drawn cat face) ~Rhona
Is having the ability to laugh
Is all around in unexplored places
Life Is Super Amazing 143 #1 (smiley face)
Is having love for someone/something every day of your life
Is incredible
Is only skin deep. Ya ya ya
Beauty is clean coding
Is this
Is now
Is me and you
Is Chevy smallblock with a Holly Double Pumper
Is contentment- if you are content you are open to beauty in your life
Is an emotion coming from your spirit
Is color in life
Is enjoying being yourself
Is listening to the birds and the wind and feeling you belong…
Is an open mind
Is believing in love with a broken heart…
Is experienced when completely present in the moment, opening your senses and your heart.
A forked tongue tells both sides of the story
Is hope
Is overlooked
Is that moment that you’re speechless
Is the variety of colors fond in nature on a sunny spring day
Is authenticity (be you)
Is think
Is never wishing the day would end
Is a quite moment, a still mind
Is being yourself
Is found when you least expect it
Is everything changes
Is either (drawn heart) or a sharp stick in the eye of the beholder
Is gratitude
Is freedom from the NSA (Snowden)
Is what I appreciate in my inner and outer world
Is family
Is unexpected
Is nature ~Mackaye
Is love, passion, and light—believe!
Is in the moment
Is in artist’s artwork
Is knowing yourself
(kids writing)- layna?
Is the ability to fully live
Is a happy and loving spirit
Is knowing who you are and loving yourself for it. Same with others
Is kindness
Is Tragic
Is watching my 5 year old daughter freely create
Is sharing the same dream
Is just simply being
Is the light in your eyes
Is whatever makes you smile
Is simplicity
Is a mocking birds nest-God’s creation
Is family (drawing of heart) Love
Is whatever society tells us…
Is Everywhere
Child’s writing (can’t read)
Is Everything we strive for
Is being surrounded by happy faces
Is the change of seasons
Is this exact moment!
Is being comfortable in your own skin (flower drawing)
Is innocence of a child
Is in loving the life you live (lots of hearts drawn)
Is birds tweeting
Is my daughters LAUGH
Is that one chick
Is a feast for the soul
A smile to/from a stranger
Is being in love
Is when opportunity meets preparation in a true, pure, loving way
Is sacred
Is life….beauty and decay and the process that is our human experience
Is (lines and dots drawing)
Is waking up next to your lover
Is everything that makes you sing and spirit soar….CAW
Is a woman’s ability to choose….(whatever it is)
Is (child’s writing)
Is my grandson’s smile
Is pie Cameron
Is Jacob leenard (heart)
Is the heart looking deepling into life
Is Same Rames
Is beauty is. Beauty is.
Is my sister xoxo
Is ~ no matter how much silence or distance that takes place, our love echoes in the universe and you are forever dancing in my heart. RKW
Is joy from being with friends and family!
Is being a total fox
Is in everything no matter what
Is a place where you feel at home
Is an amazing meal made with lots of love…
Is Perceived and relative
Is love
Is love and patience
Is absolute PEACE. Paz
Is Heather Rae Goode
Is accepting who you are and what you are meant to do!
Is living
Is loving yourself
Is sharing life’s passions, whatever that may be to you
Is watching my children laughing and playing freely
Is light
Is what defines you
Is only skin deep!!!
Is within us
Is in the air
Is two lovers together for fifty years
Is turning air into ideas
Is happiness in all
Is fall leaves blowing on a sunny Fall day!
Is my family
Is a sleeping child, even when they are grown
Is living life thru love’s eyes
Is alive
Is honesty
Is LIFE oj
Is the ocean
Is when you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you’re pissing on today
Is Life is full of opportunities, and indeed opportunities for disaster –Boris Johnson
Is my Mom when she smiles
Is in the eye of the beholder and it is in everything
Is at sea….a whitecap, a sailboat, a bridge
Is genuine outbursts glowing within one’s soul
Is an idea
Is from your dreams
Is everywhere…just embrace it
Is VIVA LA GIRAFFES
Is the smile of a child
Is the best of what you can embrace in this or any moment. BW
Is YOU
Is when you can tell who is a real friend
Is (drawings of fish under water)
Is everywhere- seek and ye shall see *
Is freedom from self
Is in the eye of the Beer Holderz
Is a promise kept, a dream, the love of life and the first waking moments of Ellen
Is objective, it is good an natural to think so….
Is Shayd and Finean
Is created by us! (smiley face drawn)
Is the magic of new life
Is finding the light in a world full of darkness
Is everything
Is find beauty and adventure in everything you do
Is love, is ALL – ALL is love
Is AIN’T LIFE GRAND!
Is natural kindness
Is enjoying your life by looking at it in a different way
Is stillness
Is love life like a bird loves to fly (drawing of bird)
Is happiness and love
Is a bunch of baby ducks
Is scary
Is knowing you are stronger than you think
Is let god out
Is being yourself
Is the simple joy of family and friends!
Is from a smile, Kelly’s smile
Is most appreciated in moments of solitude
Is LOVE
Is being present
Is love from a Grandfather
Is a life lived to it’s fullest potential!
Is keeping an open mind and experiencing new cultures!
Is captivating
Is my dog’s smile
Is gentle. Never cut what you can untie….
Is the color green
Is everywhere
Is my children’s smiles (heart drawn)
Is transformative/individual
Is laughter with friends
Is natural
Is the approaching storm
Is pointless
Is newborn baby smell
Is being unique!
Is your face upside down
Is everywhere, in everything (~heart~)
