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Learning about Louis

My son has started a blog called Learning about Louis.  You can visit it at Learning About Louis

“My mum decided to name me and my siblings after very spiritual and strong people for our middle names. She did this so we could think of them like role models and guardian angels. She named me after Louis George Gregory.” First Blog Entry

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Weaving a blog – what for?

childhood textures: 1Originally uploaded by gumbootspearlz.

I too had woven a kind of basket of a delicate texture,
but I had not made it worth anyone’s while to buy them.
Yet not the less, in my case, did I think it worth my while to weave them,
and instead of studying how to make it worth men’s while to buy my baskets,
I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.
         from the chapter “Economy” in Walden contributed by Alfred La Pointe quotation from Thoreau
(Source http://www.psymon.com/walden/quotes.html)

To be an artist who does not need to sell something requires another source of income like a day job so that art can be of the spirit.

How many people generate income from blogging. Need they generate this income from ads matching topics in their blogs ? How many clicks till it pays for the phone rental?

As you blog are you aware that you weave to be read, to make money, or are you one of the many voices crying out to be heard- to state your case, for motherhood, parenthood, spirituality, the textures of childhood, the basket weaver whose craft is being overtaken by machines.

There are just so many blogs, with so many motivations. Spiritual education, daily inspiration, a little glimpse of beauty, perhaps these are my motivations. There is also the aspect of memory. 

Blogging is my scrap book, my time capsule to give to my children and others to say this was my footstep, this was yours … here are all the cyberthreads together in this basket called my blog.

Hidden Words – map

 I thought this was an interesting way to study and remember The Hidden Words.  This map is from Juli Redson- Smith and is accompanied by an interesting article which you can find at Knowledge Map of the Hidden Words

My children are presently memorizing some of The Hidden Words and discussing them – so perhaps we will make use of this map and read them all as well as choosing some they will memorize. The Hidden Words make good starting points for discussion on many topics from caring for others, to life after death and the importance of justice.

George Townshend said of The Hidden Words:

The teaching of the book throughout is borne up as if on wings by the most intense and steadfast spirituality. With the first utterance the reader is caught away to the heavenly places, and the vision is not obscured when the precepts given deal with the details of workaday life, with the duty of following a craft or a profession and of earning a livelihood to spend on one’s kindred for the love of God. The picture given of man and of human nature is noble and exalted. If he be in appearance a “pillar of dust,” a “fleeting shadow” yet he is in his true being a “child of the divine, and invisible essence,” a “companion of God’s Throne.” The created worlds are designed for his training. The purpose of all religious teaching is to make him worthy of the love of God and able to receive his bounties.

(Source http://bahai-library.com/index.php5?file=townshend_hidden_words_reflection)

You can read the The Hidden Words here The Hidden Words 

and find out more about them here About the Hidden Words

Quilting with spirituality

She captures something spiritual; what she does is more than a collage, more than a tapestry, more than a quilt; she goes way beyond the bounds of any decorative sewing craft or textile artwork    

Jim Styan

 

 

 

 

 

 (c) Margo Styan – Image of a quilt – Title Marriage Fortress

Margo Styan is a quilter,  Canadian, a dedicated mother, and an inspired artist who is a Baha’i.  Like many artists she has chosen to set up shop on the internet so she can reach out to other quilters, and to people who love to hang inspirational art on their walls.  I only know Margo through her delightful quilt slide shows,  her artist’s statement and the words of her partner.   

(c) Margo Styan – image of photo on fabric with quote.  Title: Unity

Margo states:

There is a great need for peace and tranquility in the world today. Every living being can testify to this. We must stop, look, listen, and meditate upon all the wondrous things that the Creator has provided for our well being and growth. My art is intended to help those who stop for a while to look and then listen to their own inner beatings of their heart which urges them to meditate and discover truth for themselves and help them “grow and develop and appear in the utmost beauty”. I believe we all have a gift that needs to be discovered and offered to this existence, and thus peace and tranquility can be found.

Her work is featured at a website which details how to contact her and order pieces.  She is also keen to inspire others to take to quiliting inspired by their spirituality.

Links 

Margo Styan’s art

Click here to go to slide Show

 

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Woven

wovenOriginally uploaded by gumbootspearlz.

We all have our own life to pursue,
Our own kind of dream to be weaving…
And we all have the power
To make wishes come true,
As long as we keep believing.

Louisa May Alcott quotes (American Author known for her children’s books, especially the classic Little Women. 1832-1888)

Path of the Feather

path of the feather Originally uploaded by gumbootspearlz.

The Path of the Feather as a teaching, is about becoming a contemporary shaman by seeing and hearing the voices of the living earth. It is about finding out who you are by making medicine wheels and listening to the voices of the spirit animals and ancient ones.   It is about you living your ordinary life as your vision quest, as your shamanic journey. It is about you becoming one who sees and one who heals the earth with intent.

Source: www.pathofthefeather.com/

Stories of Feathers are so interesting. I find so much in the spiritual and traditional stories of nations to inspire pictures, art and ways of finding a balance in daily life. We may have many pathways to our spirituality but the vision quest is perhaps something many of us can relate to as we strive to find meaning in daily life.

My grandfather was a medicine man in PNG and I think because of him I find it important to look at some Indigenous spiritual teachings and see what stories convey them and what purpose they have served and serve for the people who follow them.

I will return to this topic again but its enough to acknowledge it is there in my Pearlzdreaming…