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Weaving with the Spider

IMG_2624This morning as I settled into work, I felt this overwhelming urge to go outside with my camera.. something was out there waiting for it’s photo op. I looked up into the sky, looked all around at the trees and then began to walk around the roses in front of me. I wasn’t seeing anything so I moved my focus in for a better look and what do you know… there she was … little miss spider waiting there on the rose petal, waiting.

So today I am to give you some information about Grandmother Spider and ask you to always be thinking about your own web that you weave throughout your life.

Spider is a symbol of creativity.  Is the weaver of the web of life and of fate.  Spider is able to interconnect, linking the past and the future, birth and creation.  If spider crawls into our awareness, it is asking us to rebuild the web of our life in accordance with the design Great Spirit gave us.IMG_2580

The spider shows us that the past, the present and the future are all interwoven.  It awakens our intuitive creative senses and encourages us to design the fabric of our lives from our souls original intention.

Take a moment to think about the web you continuously weave.

Many Blessings,
Raventalker

The Measure of Success

toast 2012I was talking with an artist friend of mine yesterday and the conversation went into the direction of one’s idea of their own success. He felt that he wouldn’t be success until he reached a particular income level. My idea of my own success was a bit different. I’ll share with you the thoughts of how I measure my own successes:

Instead of having one singular goal I have many and I never really plan them.. I just enjoy them as they come along.  Here are a few of them so you can understand what I mean:

  • The moment I sold my first piece.
  • My first custom order.
  • Repeat customers.
  • Creating something just how I imagined it.
  • Being happy with the end result of any project.
  • Getting into a real art gallery.
  • Being asked to participate in shows.
  • Positive feedback from customers.
  • Positive feedback from anyone!
  • Hearing how others relate to my work.
  • Shipping my work all over the world.
  • Winning Toast of Music City 🙂
  • Looking back at all the pieces I successfully finished.
  • Touching the lives of others.
  • Knowing someone liked my art enough to buy it and hang it in their home, becoming a part of their everyday life.
  • Knowing that pieces of me will live much longer than I… hopefully touching the lives of others for many years after I’m gone.

These are the type of things that I measure my success by.  If I measured only by how much money I make.. I may or may not ever see that goal. There is no way of knowing … so in the mean time … I enjoy all the other successes that come my way.

Many Blessings,
Raventalker

Creative Writing Experiment – continued

I thought I wold take this task on once again and offer out to my facebook friends to lend me a line or phrase and I would in turn make that line or phrase into a poem or story for them.
Here’s how the experiment continued:

1) “The dragon silently wept.”

The dragon silently wept as the world before him slipped away
The days of soaring the skies without fear would have to wait until another day

The change brought about a sadness he’d never known
A great nothingness exists now where the trees had once grown

The wind that had once roared through the mountains, trees and hills
Now at a deadly standstill

The dragon silently wept as the world before him was now unknown

2) “The mermaid glanced at the distant shore.”

The mermaid glanced at the distant shore
Remembering the days from before

A longing inside her stirred
A glimpse of someone walking and then the flight of a bird

Scales and fins kept her from the land
Knowing her walk could only be upon the ocean’s sand

Her fantasies rang of journeys beyond the water’s edge
To walk, to fly, to run … in her next life, this was her pledge.

The mermaid glanced at the distant shore
Longing for something more.

3) “ as the sky turned to a vivid shade of purple the dragonflies appeared over the horizon”

As the sky turned to a vivid shade of purple the dragonflies appeared over the horizon, I knew a message was clearly on its way. A message from where? From whom? About what? I was sure to find out soon. Oh dear, this message seems to be quite encrypted. It feels like I am to understand something, but I am at a loss. I ask, please my dragonfly friends, can you take this pen and paper and just state the obvious for I am blind to the message you bring. Suddenly a dragonfly lands upon my shoulder and I knew. It was as if a connection was finally made and we shared thoughts. I felt a peace overtake me and I settled in for the message to be delivered. What came next was unexpected and yet comforting. There wasn’t any sort of contrived message about “do this” or “do that” the message was simply of love and that I am not alone.. no matter how distant from the world I may feel.. I am not. We are all connected and that connection is love.

4) “A single snowflake landed on the window pane”

A single snowflake landed on the window pane today
I longed for the days when all I had to do was go out and play

Remembering way back when
Running with arms stretched, pretending to glide upon the wind

Spinning in circles round and round
Playing hopscotch and drawing squares upon the ground

Puddles became the ocean and old logs became the pirate’s plank
All my pennies were stored safely in a piggy bank

No worries and no cares
Comforting hugs from teddy bears

A single snowflake landed on the window pane today
So who else wants to join me and go outside to play?

I hope you enjoy this play with words 🙂

Many Blessings,
Raventalker

Creative Writing Experiment

I was in quite the mood today for writing so I asked my Facebook friends to post some words or phrases and I would in turn reply with a poem for them using their words.

Here’s how it all turned out:

  – We are out of toilet paper.

When one readies for a squat
and sits down upon the pot
Make sure there are toiletries at hand
For when your duty has come to an end
And that lump has finally reached its taper
You don’t want to have to shout
We’re Out of Toilet Paper!
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-Because our love is……

Because our love is every lasting and true
My heart will always belong to no one but you

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-Alone doesn’t mean lonely

Alone doesn’t mean lonely at all
It just means I may be available when you call

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-Time has no meaning when there is love………

Time has no meaning when there is love to share
The clock may tick away but I don’t care
Time has no meaning when there is love to share

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-Love has no meaning when it is not returned.

Love has no meaning when it’s not returned
Said the bitter one just after a burn
Love has meaning returned or not 
Said the heart, even tho it was twisted in a knot
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 -when life gets you down

When life gets you down
And your face takes on that sad old frown
Look beyond that gaping hole where you stand
And take hold a friend by the hand
They’ll help pull you from where you fell
And lift you up for the wind to fill your sail.
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– nothing gold can stay

Nothing gold can stay?
What the hell is that you say?
Gold is merely a mineral from the ground
Worth only what one would pay by the pound

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 -behold a new dawn

Yesterday is no more
Just a memory from before
Let there be no regrets from the days gone by
For morning shall bring a brand new sky
Forget all the pain, hurt & sadness from the past
Time ticks away far too fast
Take with you all the joyful thoughts and release the sorrow
Behold a New Dawn every tomorrow!
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 -The moon was shining a lovely hue of purple tonight as the lone raven perched high in the….

The moon was shining a lovely hue of purple tonight as the lone raven perched high in the trees along the river bank. For miles you could hear its caw carried by the winds. The sound brought a feeling of something quite familiar. It was as if our souls were speaking to each other. Old friends we were, although we’d surly never met. T’was strange and yet comforting, that connection from the raven down by the river bank.

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This was a great writing experiment .. what fun.. can’t wait til I try it again!

Many Blessings,
Raventalker

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

50 Shades of Me

ravenatalker2015So this morning I was browsing Pinterest and saw a card that said “I’m 50 shades of (something or other)” Can’t remember the exact quote.. so I then thought.. hmmmm I kinda like the whole 50 shades of …..  … now what shall I post on my Facebook status that I am 50 shades of??? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Ok Facebook…. I’m 50 Shades of Craftabulous!

My sister made a comment along the lines of .. yeah you’re 50 shades of something alright… ya freak!

Ook so I may resemble that remark my sister made and thought… hmmmmm .. well let’s go ahead and explore the 50 shades of me and see what comes out of the woodwork 🙂

So here we go! in no particular order…

1. I’m 50 Shades of Creative Addict

2. I’m 50 Shades of Love

3. I’m 50 Shades of Light

4. I’m 50 Shades of Emotion

5. I’m 50 Shades of Ability

6. I’m 50 Shades of Smiles

7. I’m 50 Shades of Naughty 😉

8. I’m 50 Shades of Dreams

9. I’m 50 Shades of Getting it Done

10. I’m 50 Shades of Tired (from the 50 shades in #9)

11. I’m 50 Shades of Positive Thinking

12. I’m 50 Shades of Spiritual Awakening

13. I’m 50 Shades of Believing in Wishes Coming True

14. I’m 50 Shades of Wicked

15. I’m 50 Shades of Making Do with What You Have

16. I’m 50 Shades of Compromise

17. I’m 50 Shades of Alone

18. I’m 50 Shades of Connecting with Spirit

19. I’m 50 Shades of Happy

20. I’m 50 Shades of Singing Like a Rock Star in My Car Alone

21. I’m 50 Shades of Dancing in the Rain

22. I’m 50 Shades of Helping Others

23. I’m 50 Shades of Over-thinking

24. I’m 50 Shades of Worry

25. I’m 50 Shades of Fear

26. I’m 50 Shades of Knowing

27. I’m 50 Shades of Understanding Who I Am

28. I’m 50 Shades of Sharing the Light

29. I’m 50 Shades of Understanding

30. I’m 50 Shades of Mischief

31. I’m 50 Shades of Artistic

32. I’m 50 Shades of Forgetful

33. I’m 50 Shades of Funny

34. I’m 50 Shades of Hopeful

35. I’m 50 Shades of Healing

36. I’m 50 Shades of Magical Mystery

37. I’m 50 Shades of Fun

38. I’m 50 Shades of Nostalgic

39. I’m 50 Shades of Rhyme

40. I’m 50 Shades of Wisdom

41. I’m 50 Shades of Lessons Learned

42. I’m 50 Shades of Mistakes

43. I’m 50 Shades of Visions

44. I’m 50 Shades of Seeing What Others May Not See

45. I’m 50 Shades of Picking Myself Back up After I Fall

46. I’m 50 Shades of Helping Others Up after They Fall

47. I’m 50 Shades of Mystery

48. I’m 50 Shades of Things Yet to Be

49. I’m 50 Shades of Fantabulous

50. I’m 50 Shades of Life

Well, there you have it… 50 Shades of Me!

What’s hiding in the 50 Shades of You?

Many Blessings,
Raventalker