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"I do believe in an everyday sort of magic...the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone." Charles de Lint

Thursday, April 24, 2025

ReBIRTH

Turn your face up to the sky. Listen. The world is trembling into possibility. The world is reminding us that this is what the world does best. New life. Rebirth. The greenness that rises out of ashes. Margaret Renkel, The Comfort of Crows

Today was my 66th BIRTHday...and I spent most of it with dear friends making art. It doesn't get better than that! 

This was my lemon birthday cake made by Brenda's mom....and it was fabulous! 

I spent a good chunk of the day with my art group...Tracie, Brenda, and Becky. We had the best time! 

We started a new shared art project that will take us through the summer.

I helped everyone make a small art journal using papers that they brought with them. Some of the papers were plain and some of them were their own art or inspiration images. Each journal has lots of places and spaces for more art and additions.

We each passed our journals to someone else today and they will all make their way around the circle over the spring and early summer. Everyone will add to them before they end up back with the owner. 

Once we get ours back...we can finish it up in any way we want to....it's really going to be interesting and fun. Here are all our journals lined up on the table. 

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  1. AnonymousApril 25, 2025 at 7:21 AM

    Happiest of birthdays to you! How wonderful to have a lovely group of women to share your day, your cake, and your talents!
    Kathy

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    1. MaryAnn ShupeApril 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM

      Thanks Kathy! Yes...it was the happiest of birthdays all around!

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  2. Judy HartmanApril 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM

    Happy, Happy Birthday, MaryAnn!! I can't think of a better way to celebrate than with creative friends and I love the idea of shared art journals! So inspiring and fun!!

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    1. MaryAnn ShupeApril 25, 2025 at 9:41 AM

      Thanks Judy! Yes...it was a perfect way to celebrate my birthday...and our new shared art project is going to so much fun!

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  3. dotty seiter: now playingApril 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM

    your projects and cake and friends and birthday and signs of spring and quotation brought e.e. cummings to mind immediately, and so i will borrow some of his words (excerpted from more than one poem) to say happy birthday! …

    you shall above all things be glad and young
    For if you’re young,whatever life you wear

    it will become you;and if you are glad
    whatever’s living will yourself become.

    i thank You God for most this amazing
    day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
    and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
    which is natural which is infinite which is yes
    and this is the sun’s birthday;this is the birth
    day of life and of love and wings:and of the gay
    great happening illimitably earth
    (now the ears of my ears awake and
    now the eyes of my eyes are opened)


    I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing
    than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance

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    1. MaryAnn ShupeApril 26, 2025 at 8:05 AM

      Oh my goodness...this e.e. cummings quote is fabulous! Thank you so much Dotty for putting such a positive a punctuation point on this post!

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