IMBOLC BLESSINGS
Sunday February 2nd 2025
….the light is growing….a time of quickening
….& so in the belly of the earth
life stirs – lambs are born, green shoots appear,
a quickening begins…
a Celtic spring festival:
the divine feminine, the goddess, the crone, the great mother & the maiden
…all are honoured including Bridie/Brigid
who is particularly associated with spring, fertility & life
kitchen sink studio dedicates this post to the following
f/phenomenal feisty feminist females
to their creativity/fertility/empowerment
surprise, delight, inspiration arise…..
Laurie Anderson inimitable/droll/inspiring/tender/audacious/aware
…..shares on Desert Island Discs (R4 1 hr)
Laurie & Lou’s rules to live by: a 3-point compass for a light existence
* don’t be afraid of anyone
* get a really good bullshit detector
* be really, really tender
Zanskar: A Winter of Happiness (2022) a SLICE documentary about a
community of joyous nuns in remote Himalayas & nearby villages -the valley’s
guardians of peace and resilience. Film by a returning French woman (52mns)
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography (2016)
Following her retirement, Elsa Dorfman lovingly showcases
her photographic works from her fifty-year career in photography,
while also telling personal and professional anecdotes…..
Tove (2021)
story of Moomins creator Tove Jansson, and her
turbulent search for identity, love and freedom
(1hr 42 streaming on Prime video)
Sally Potter on This Cultural Life with John Wilson (the whiz of deceptively
simple yet evocative questions) as the film maker /dancer / poet / screenwriter
discusses her influences…(43mns)
Threads of Resistance
The Red Dress
a community co operative project
empowering women embroiderers
around the world (12mn video)
(women at Dove Studio Somerset were involved too) 
PlayPlayPlayWorkWorkWork
together = PlerkPlerkPlerk
let’s plerk again like we did last summer….
mark making at play…
taking time to play@work…..inProgress…@kitchen sink studio
a concertina book comprised of water colour & collage explorations…
inspired by the lovely, generous artist Helen Wells
book covers…
for the concertina playbook below….
our neighbour (5yrs old) comes in to play, on artist dates:
she is completely unrestrained & uninterested in judging
anything she makes: how marvellous….
noticing differently…
seeing the Himalayas in the Knowle skies….
& short vid to which you may play the primordial sound track below image…..
WhenWeTraveld
downsideup…..
soundtrack:
nature nourishes in marvellous ways – reflecting our own true nature right there, made of the same stuff…
homage to the love of trees, slideshow with soundtrack treelove/truelove
and continuing 3 books by the bed series
A lot of people don’t feel creative because they’re physically and emotionally exhausted.
The recipe for your life should be this: rest until you feel like playing, then play until you
feel like resting, and then repeat.
Martha Beck (quoted in the L.A. Times 7th January 2025, & referenced in Helen Wells’s blog)
self-compassion and self-empathy
the healing gifts that only you can give yourself
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I M P E R M A N E N C E
is every where around us
it’s the nature of things
the true nature of Life
the beauty of it all, alive……and…….dead
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great
for this precious life
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resonated with you….
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