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vonda drees art

weaving wonder, wisdom & warmheartedness

Roots, Seeds, Now… Ready, Set, Go

Posted on April 15, 2023 by vondadrees

“Redemption is… a ‘gathering up’ of our histories, a taking up of what time has wrought. … Eternity bears the… Read more Roots, Seeds, Now… Ready, Set, Go

The Promised Treasure

Posted on April 14, 2023 by vondadrees

Nearing the end of the book, How to Inhabit Time by James K. A. Smith, I’m moved by a passage… Read more The Promised Treasure

The Dance of Love

Posted on April 10, 2023 by vondadrees

“What is art but the practiced discipline of evoking but not pinning down?” -James K. A. Smith, How to Inhabit… Read more The Dance of Love

Life Abounds! A Joyous Easter to you!

Posted on April 9, 2023 by vondadrees

“The creation that is our home, the incubator of now, is dynamic. Creation’s being is becoming.” -James K. A. Smith,… Read more Life Abounds! A Joyous Easter to you!

Good Friday

Posted on April 7, 2023 by vondadrees

“…[T]rue eternity…, rather than being opposed to time, is revealed in the very heart of temporal existence.” -an observation of… Read more Good Friday

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Instagram holds many seasons of my creative contemplation. It continues to be a place I share fresh paint & ink, and I'd be delighted to meet you there!

“Can we dream and envision without getting trapped in one way of doing things? As we live into resistance, can we let those dreams transform or change as they need to? Can we edit those visions while holding on to the spirit that brought them forward in us? … Our stories, our connection to this Earth, and the ways we learn to embody the work of resistance are all leading us to toward wholeness, toward integration… We hold our dignity. We hold Mother Earth’s dignity. We hold each other’s dignity. This is always resistance.” -Kaitlin B. Curtice, Living Resistance, p. 182-183 “In dreaming, I needed to commit to equipping myself with the right tools. … Sometimes… little epiphanies meet us wherever we are and ask us to look deeper.” -Kaitlin B. Curtice, Living Resistance, p. 181 “[C]reating a vision is holy work, deep and strong work that goes beyond a framework or an idea, beyond a conference room. It is cyclical and fluid, not structured and limiting. A vision lives and breathes; it is a way forward, a dream that is sure to come.” -Kaitlin B. Curtice, Living Resistance, p. 179 “So when I ask God <how are you?> and wait for the wind to blow, I am practicing prayer differently. And when the wind blows and the lapping water of a river answers, Creator asks, <And how are you?>… I get off my knees and look God in their eyes and breathe in and out, because that’s how I am, breathing the silence and the mystery.” -Kaitlin B. Curtice, Living Resistance, p. 175 “We need each other to show up as we are, with the gifts left to us by our ancestors. Even if we don’t fully know who our ancestors were, we lean into the ancestral kinship of humanity and ask what it means to love one another well. When we do, we create a holy vision of the world we want to choose day by day. And I believe that, over time, many of those visions will become a reality, bringing us to the sacred center of ourselves as well.” -Kaitlin B. Curtice, Living Resistance, p. 169 I’ll be teaching a course at the @grunewaldguild from July 9-14, 2023, called A Sacred Circle of Rhythm. One of the days we’ll focus on an ancestral mandala. “The Integral Realm is a place of expansiveness, a place where we step out of ourselves, where we hold all of ourselves, where our spiritual center finds its grounding and truly shows us the beauty of the universe.” -Kaitlin B. Curtice, Living Resistance, p. 163 “Remembering where we come from, accepting and wrestling with it, and asking what it means for us today are powerful actions. … When we get the fuller picture of history, we come closer to what community and kinship mean.” -Kaitlin B. Curtice, Living Resistance, p. 151 “Liminality, to put it simply, is the psychological process of transitioning across boundaries and borders. … The magic of our existence is that we can remember our ancestors and learn from them, and at the same time, we can understand that we are, right now, ancestors in the making.” -Kaitlin B. Curtice, Living Resistance, pages 139-140

You can also view my work on Pinterest. Here's an image from my recent journaling through The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story.

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