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vonda drees art

art that plumbs the depths of love

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Bearing Fruit

Posted on October 17, 2023 by vondadrees

This collaboration with my son, Paul, and an apple tree at the Grunewald Guild has received a surprising amount of… Read more Bearing Fruit

December 24

Posted on December 24, 2021 by vondadrees

Thou-embraced Friend… I pray this post arrives like a feather floating onto a quiet pond. A Blessed Christmas Eve to… Read more December 24

November 16

Posted on November 16, 2021 by vondadrees

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 “Seven Years of Wonder” is a daily look back at my creative journaling posts… Read more November 16

October 6

Posted on October 6, 2021 by vondadrees

“We have the capacity within us to create anew.” -Grace Lee Boggs Leaning into this question I posed in 2018:… Read more October 6

July 12

Posted on July 12, 2021 by vondadrees

I’m hoping these words, “Joy is the flag flown high from the castle of my heart,” might stir the memory… Read more July 12

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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!

Annie Dillard wrote, “Nature is, above all, profligate. Don’t believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. Wouldn’t it be cheaper to leave them on the tree in the first place? This deciduous business alone is a radical scheme… Extravagance!” “With sophisticated technology, we strive to see what is beyond us, but are often blind to the myriad sparkling facets that lie so close at hand. We think we’re seeing when we’ve only scratched the surface. Our acuity at this middle scale seems diminished, not by any failing of the eyes, but by the willingness of the mind. … [H]ave we become dismissive of what takes no technology but only time and patience to perceive?” —Robin Wall Kimmerer We listen, we heal. “We carry ourselves wherever we go…” —Amma Matrona “Waving a white flag, Black Hawk tried to surrender…” -from Wikipedia’s article on the Battle of Bad Axe Gracias a La Vida que me ha dado la amistad con hermana Sonia y hermano Francisco. Que descansen en la paz y en amor eterno. This morning after reading a reflection by Ian Mobsby on the open, missional church, I looked at my journal page and gave it a quarter turn. It prompted me to google “why did fish grow legs?” The response, “to help them navigate shallow water, maneuver through dense vegetation, and EVENTUALLY move across land.” This place has known pain. “The sacred is not elsewhere. It is woven through exchanges, through the reciprocity of soil and root, river and rain, grief and renewal. … To remember that even in times of unraveling, the world continues its patient work of weaving new relations from what has come apart. … The Earth, as she so often does, reminds us that culmination and descent belong to the same story.” —Shannon Willis

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