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

This is an image in process. Feel free to download it for your own creative journey through this season of waiting and anticipation. If you do engage with it, I really would love to see what you add and/or read what you’ve pondered. This image has been in process as stories from the Colorado Springs shooting have been shared. Along the way, I’ve wondered whether I should be working on an image that would say something, anything about how I feel about what has happened. “The more we listen to our own anger, the better a listener it becomes. It becomes less of a weapon and more of a path to greater attunement… . . . If we do not starve our anger of attention, of affection, of intimacy, we will seldom find it desperately clamoring to take up space where it wasn’t meant to. An anger that is confident in its own belonging doesn’t need to compete to be held.” -Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh, p. 115 “You were never meant to prove your dignity. You, whose flesh contains more bodies than your own. . . . Lie down with me in the pasture, where life is alive and growing with the unapologetic slowness of a blade of grass. What will become of us? We will be free and we will be dreaming.” -Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh, p. 157 “To rest is a special kind of power. Even someone who is direly overworked can close her eyes for two minutes and, by the mercy of God, find those seconds stretched out into years, allowing the healing and regeneration she deserves to come in a blink. . . . ‘Come to me all you that are weary . . . and I will give you rest.’ (Matthew 11:28)” -Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh, p. 148 “There must be for me a deep sense of relatedness to God. This relatedness is the way by which there shall open for me more and more springs of energy and power, which will enable me to thread life’s mysteries with life’s clues.” -Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart, pages 46-47 Eternity stirs “The chasm between the spiritual and the physical is no greater than that between a thought and a word. … It is difficult to tell where one ends and the other begins, perhaps because there is no such place.” -Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh, p. 60 On this All Saints Sunday, I’ve been inspired by the Seventh Generation Principle, to contemplate the saints of both the past seven and future seven generations.

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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