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I have a plan…I’m going back to Monhegan Island in June. I confirmed my reservation today and I’m already feeling the peace of the island. If I close my eyes and take a deep breath I can smell the ocean and hear the fog horn lulling me to sleep at night….it is a place that [...]
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“LET YOUR GARDEN OFFER YOU, MANY TIMES TO BE HAPPILY ALONE…”
~from a Garden Blessing by Welleran Poltarness
Bleeding hearts are opening. It’s happening! One single white tulip with porcelain like skin was looking up at the sun this morning and it brought a big smile to my face . Spring is filling me with inspiration to paint . I’m bursting [...]
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View of The Killarney Lakes…oil painting Colleen Kidder
“MAY THE BLESSINGS OF LIGHT BE UPON YOU …LIGHT WITHOUT AND LIGHT WITHIN.
AND ALL YOUR COMINGS AND GOINGS, MAY YOU EVER HAVE A KINDLY GREETING FROM THEM YOU MEET ALONG THE ROAD…”
“WHEREVER YOU GO AND WHATEVER YOU DO…
MAY THE LUCK OF THE IRISH BE THERE WITH YOU”
Happy St. [...]
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I have been celebrating my Birthday this past weekend. It began with a long lunch with my good friend Heather Atwood at a favorite local restaurants Tom Shea’s. When I arrived I was presented with a beautiful bouquet of flowers.
We toasted the day with a glass of wine… actually two glasses of wine… and then [...]
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“There is a light that shines beyond all things on Earth, beyond us all, beyond the highest, the very highest of heavens. This is the light that shines in our hearts.”
~Chandogya Upanishad
~~~H A P P Y V A L E N T I N E ‘ S D A Y to all !! ~~~
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“There once was an owl who sat in an oak, …the more it heard, …the less it spoke,..the more it heard“ ~GentleHawk
The winter months make me want to be still. When it snows and the ground freezes quiet can be heard…and I try to listen. Watching the birds outside my window at the snow covered [...]
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In the Autumn of 2002 I traveled with artist Caleb Stone to Tuscany to paint it’s olive groves and many vistas . The shades of green were so unlike the warm and golden hues found in New England. We stayed at a former Romanesque monastary called Pieve Di Caminino and went out early each morning mixing paints on [...]
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Recently I was asked to decorate a shoe for an upcoming Fashion Show and Silent Auction that will help the Class of 2012 of Ipswich High School raise some funds. I agreed but wasn’t quite sure what I was going to do to make this shoe stand out at an auction! It’s pointed toe and spiked heel looked architectural sitting on [...]
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