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perfection and art

Posted on March 23, 2023 by keishua

you don’t have to be perfect and polished to be an artist you just chose to show up daily allowing the tiny spark of doing to createthe shape of your life

hot nectar

Posted on March 9, 2023 by keishua

Love is a mysterious thing 44 minutes and the soup is done Sunlight piercing red hibiscus juice Holding onto the rose bush with pierced Hands If only you  Could stop Listening at the door Of time and  Other people’s  Head Maybe you would be Still like this morning chickadees Again Dancing on the branches that… Continue reading

words

Posted on March 2, 2023 by keishua

words are firesoothing lifeandwatered roots

earth light

Posted on February 23, 2023 by keishua

the clay right here feels unmovable but it changes and becomes loamy and soft under my feet as I walk to the rosebush and listen closely to her soft morning prayer. today the crows are flying overhead towards the tallest elm tree in the neighborhood . it’s close to trash day and that always brings… Continue reading

flowers, more

Posted on February 16, 2023 by keishua

mid-winter moody sunshine an eight dollar arrangement. I just put it in a bit of water but I am really just going to dry them (the flowers) for play. it’s the gift that keeps giving.

rekindling: a flower story

Posted on February 9, 2023 by keishua

sometimes, it’s just a little spark a glimmer of memory that opens the world inside of you to yourself and you remember your own sweetness like a swan swimming towards her soulmate legs kicking water you, too have returned to Love.

brown and green

Posted on February 2, 2023February 1, 2023 by keishua

winter thangs

Posted on December 22, 2022 by keishua

it’s school holidays. all regularly scheduled programs need adjustments. my thoughts are simple these days. cooking and sibling joys and tensions. the cat playing with my toes (rudely). feelings being felt. this time of year brings it all up. i am not where i thought i would be in some areas and i have to… Continue reading

frida kahlo on ambition and painting

Posted on October 20, 2022 by keishua

“I really don’t know if my paintings are surrealist,” she says, ” but I know that they are the frankest expression of myself, without ever taking into consideration anyone’s judgment or prejudice, I have painted very little and without the slightest desire for glory or ambition, but before all else, out of the conviction that… Continue reading

pond memory

painting in my mind

Posted on October 13, 2022 by keishua

there is a part of painting that always feels out of reach I think it’s my mind that sometimes gets attached to how I feel something should look. there is nothing wrong with that aiming for a particular look or feel in a painting is okay but when it comes at the expense of true… Continue reading

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