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Mushroom/Earth Day Festival
Sun., April 22, 2012
11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Pere Marquette Lodge & Conference
13653 Lodge Blvd.
Grafton, IL 62037
Ah…a day to appreciate the earth and all it yields. Come and relax at Pere Marquette Lodge for the annual Earth Day and Mushroom Fest. Participants will be hunting and judging the mushroom finds, as well as eating some pretty tasty specials. There will be music, vendors and activities for everyone. The event is free. For more information, call (618) 786-2331 ext. 0.
–I’ll be there with handmade & sustainable glass & recycled. upcycled jewelry & gifts–in beautiful Pere Marquette Lodge – INDOORS – rain or shine.
I have been celebrating Earth Day since 1971 – come see the cool stuff I have made for the Riverbend Earth Day Event in Godfrey, Illinois – handmade, recycled, up-cycled, and lots of fun!
Peace sign made in Phillipines by fair trade craftspeople.
My embellishments include handmade fused recycled glass, re-purposed finger puppet, junk mail “key”, natural fibers, re-purposed watch, clay faces, a compass rose, and a wish for world peace, starting in each heart, in each home, now is the time.
finish each day and be done with it. you have done what you could. some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. tomorrow is a new day. you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every fused glass artist knows – breakage happens. If you mix incompatible glass – if you cool too quickly - you can get stress fractures and cracks. It can be very disappointing - especially if you’ve already put time & effort into the piece – but it is not the end.
Glass gives you seceond chances – you can recycle it and try again – as often as you dare. It is a forgiving medium (karma’s way of making up for the cuts and burns fusers deal with?)
Don’t cry over broken glass – it’s just an opportunity to recycle it & start fresh!
Happiness is a journey, not a destination…
For a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin – real life.
But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. This perspective has helped me to see there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. So treasure every moment you have and remember that time waits for no one. –souza
I love this quote – I have it on a greeting card I bought when I really “shouldn’t have spent the money”, but I am glad I brought this message home.
I have been doing some mixed media pieces – always try to include a touch of glass – maybe stained, maybe dichroic, whatever seems right for the rest of the piece…
The next mixed media piece I do, I would like to feature this quote. Maybe I will accent it with a glass butterfly, like this one – because butterflies float from one flower to the next, sipping nectar when they can, facing the elements when they must, but always fluttering by the moment.
Another Christmas come & gone – did you GIVE what you wanted to for Christmas? Not Did you GET what you wanted – I meant GIVE.
I found more joy in giving & surprising people this year – people who did not expect it – way more than in the nice things I received as gifts.
I don’t regret anything I gave – my gift was how it made me feel so good. I am thankful to have an art form (glass jewelry) that most people appreciate receiving.
I started out this holiday season to give handmade & homemade – and I did, and it brought joy! I love the handmade, homemade gifts I received as well – much more than the things box stores were foisting off on people. (Enough with the microfleece already!)
I would have liked to give more to those in need – but at least I gave some, in my corner of the world. when and where I could.
My Christmas moment this year came in AUGUST – writing 15 letters “fromt Santa’s elves” to school children for a friend’s friend who is a teacher. I had a jolly time, and the kids who got them enjoyed them too I heard…
Spreading joy and kindness – that’s what it’s all about…even if it doesn’t help the bottom line – it helps each heart.
May you always delight in simple things and give from the heart!
May you have the chance to love another, to serve another, to help another grow.
May you find beauty in life without blinding yourself to the darkness where sadness and need hold sway.
May you heal the wounds that you have caused and forgive those wounds that you have received.
May you touch another life in a way that changes it for the better.
This is Christmas, the one time of year when we turn our hearts toward the act of giving. However you celebrate, whatever you believe, may you do your part to keep that legacy alive. It is the best of who we are, and the measure of who we can be.
Take care, my friends. It is a gift to be alive.
by Kent Nerburn
I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. (Diane Ackerman)
Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes, your easy smile is your museum. (Ansel Adams)
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. (Stella Adler)
Just living is enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. (Hans Christian Andersen)
Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It’s the aim of art to give it some. (Jean Anouilh)
Life is a song… sing it. Life is a game… play it. Life is a challenge… meet it. Life is a dream… realize it. Life is a sacrifice… offer it. Life is love… enjoy it. (Sai Baba)
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner. (Colette)
Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. (Ralph Ellison)
Life is not easy, but death is no fun. (Tomm Fennell)
In life learn art, in the artwork learn life. If you see the one correctly you see the other also. (Friedrich Holderlin)
I am not dead yet! I can still call forth a piece of soul and set it down in color, fixed forever. (Keri Hulme)
Life is pain, art is redemption. (Brian Lee Jones)
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
This life isn’t bad for a first draft. (Joan Konner)
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. (John Lennon)
Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters. (Eric Maisel)
One puts into one’s art what one has not been capable of putting into one’s existence. (Henri de Montherlant)
Life is easier than you’d think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable. (Kathleen Norris)
the War of Art- Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it. (Steven Pressfield)
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. (George Bernard Shaw)
The best things in life are invisible. Laughter, love, the wind, and life itself – all are visible only through the things they animate. (Timothy R. Thies)
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. (Henry David Thoreau)
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries of life disappear and life stands explained. (Mark Twain)
My aim in life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well as I can; then, at the end of my life… looking back with love and tender regret, and thinking, ‘Oh, the pictures I might have made!’ But this does not exclude making what is possible… (Vincent van Gogh)
I’ll tell you what is the highest work of art – it’s of the soul – listen to this: A truly beautiful life is the highest work of art in the world. (Boris Volkoff) -
The Shoes of the Fisherman – It takes so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the enlightenment or the courage to pay the price… One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to embrace the world like a lover. One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying. (Morris West)
The secret of life is in art. (Oscar Wilde)
AMEN.
