What a beautiful thing it has been to be alive on this day over the years.
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020 – Here’s the haiku that accompanied the painting and its photo inspiration:
Do you know, my friend,
how your presence lifts my soul?
Together, we rise.
2021 – What I wrote a year ago when posting the image below:
I have listened over and over to the gift that Amanda Gorman gave to the world as she read her Inaugural Poem. My gratitude runs deep and my heart swells with joy. https://youtu.be/Jp9pyMqnBzk
“Seven Years of Wonder” is a daily look back at my creative journaling posts since 2014. I began this journey on Feb. 11, 2021, and hope to continue through Feb. 10, 2022. What am I learning about my art and faith journey thus far? What has remained constant? Where have I been changed? How is this impacting present and future art-making?
A deep bow of gratitude to you for keeping me company on this journey.
vonda drees 
2017 I live near the edge of a wilderness. It calls to me. But the questions I ask are the same, over and over. “When will we learn that God is love?” Instead, the wilderness answers only “not yet.”
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I couldn’t help but hold the depth of your wilderness conversation, Jim, while immersing in my own devotions this morning. Thank you.
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