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Ginnungagap 3 Ginnungagap is an old Norse word that means, “The Yawning Void”. 80” x 40” $2,400

In meditation I went to the unknown.

It was full of gigantic pink flowers.

Seriously?

I thought – 

This is too predictable and likely for me,

so I disappeared the flowers.

Which left emptiness.

So I split myself in half 

and in half again,

and continued splitting each me in half

until I was spread out all over the emptiness.

and I loved how that felt.

Yet now, 

I also wonder,

how I would have felt 

had I immersed myself 

in the giant pink flowers

instead.


Dear Friends,

I am at the Roseburg Summer Arts Festival with poison oak on my arms and legs.

Is this revenge for clearing out a bunch of poison oak on my mountain property two weeks ago?

I have never been negatively affected by poison oak before, 

but was that because I always left it alone, 

having been taught it is a protector of the forest?

I have to wonder about that.

Oh well,

It's all good,

Because now I know what having a poison oak rash feels like.

You're welcome, Jessica ( my daughter who gets poison oak way too easily).


Here's what's coming up in my art show schedule …

June 29  Today is the last day at the Umpqua Valley Summer Art Festival in Roseburg, OR

July 12&13  I will be showing at the Bend Summer Festival in Bend, OR

July 19  I will be showing at the Gresham Festival of Arts in Gresham, OR

August 3  I will have my art booth set up at the Wilsonville Festival of Music at Charbonneau in Wilsonville, OR


Chapter 25

The First Ceremony

The first ceremony is a prayer ceremony.  

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Michele Ballantyne

Wife, Mother, Grandmother, Artist

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