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vonda drees art

art that plumbs the depths of love

WOW – Sending Song

Posted on April 16, 2025March 18, 2025 by vondadrees

“When the winds of nature are behind us, we fly through the skies like the murmurations of starlings — in… Read more WOW – Sending Song

WOW – Blessing

Posted on April 15, 2025March 18, 2025 by vondadrees

From the Gospel of Matthew: 5 When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he sat down, his… Read more WOW – Blessing

WOW – Sending

Posted on April 14, 2025March 18, 2025 by vondadrees

“The God within is like a homing device placed within us, like those found naturally in homing pigeons. No matter… Read more WOW – Sending

WOW – Post-Communion Blessing and Prayer

Posted on April 12, 2025March 17, 2025 by vondadrees

People will sit under their own vines and fig trees with no one to make them afraid. —Micah 4:4 (The… Read more WOW – Post-Communion Blessing and Prayer

WOW – Canticle of Praise

Posted on April 11, 2025March 13, 2025 by vondadrees

Praise: the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation; the offering of grateful homage in words or song, as… Read more WOW – Canticle of Praise

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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!

“Every carbon atom in your body was forged in the collapse of ancient stars. … Today the ash tells the truth again: You are dust. …every person you meet carries the same holy material. Remembering that will not solve every conflict. But forgetting it has created most of them.” —Cameron Trimble, https://open.substack.com/pub/camerontrimble/p/marked-with-stars?r=6pefc&utm_medium=ios You are loved, Stardust, “[A] blessing has a kind of flow, a current on which it travels. It moves both within us and beyond us, something to be passed along rather than kept only for ourselves.” —Jan Richardson, from the preface of How The Stars Get In Your Bones In addition to the Watercolor Cosmos class, May 10-15, 2026, I’ll also be teaching Mandalas in Watercolor, June 7-13, 2026. “An ancient literary form that appears across spiritual traditions, a blessing is a distinctive, sometimes poetic constellation of words designed to call upon and convey God’s deep desire for our wholeness, both individually and in community. A blessing… arises from and depends on relationship, the connections that hold us together.” —Jan Richardson, from the preface of her book, How The Stars Get In Your Bones It’s no spectacle. “The earth softens. Light stretches longer across the sky. Somewhere between what is held and what is released, creation stirs.” —from the description of Spring Sacred Arts on the Grunewald Guild website Pigment and water When your art practice

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