Can we do it?
Can we bring softness and kindness to battlegrounds, both inner and outer?
Art helps.
Senior Venus
Sally Swain © original art
Senior Venus, apparently, is
Senior Venus
Tag Archives: US politics
Looking the Monster in the Eye
In Which
One Artist Attempts
to Transform Fear and Loathing
into Peace and Power
A (Literally) Ripping Picture-Story Comprising Alternative Art Heart Facts
{Warning: you might not be able to stomach the ensuing facial photos}
{on the other hand, the face has been difficult to avoid, unless you live in a remote cave in an exotic location}
Preface (a poem):
There’s no need to ration
self-care or compassion
when tending a wound
of the heart.
To deepen the healing,
allow space for feeling
and channel your hurt
through your art.
Chapter One
in which
How to tend a hurt heart
Creative Wellbeing in a Time of Trump
I cannot pretend. I cannot send out a glib, pretty message disconnected from deeper realities. I want to speak with you directly, from my heart to yours, and hopefully back again, in a loop of realness.
I wish to inspire the feeding of creativity, the gathering of community, the radiating of authentic connection.
Sous
Sally Swain © original art
But here comes the Old Steam Train of Doubt … choo choo … puff puff … TOOOT!
Don’t
Art and Soul Space 