OK, the world hasn't ended (yet) if you're reading this. (as many more people than usual expect to happen on Dec. 21, 2012)
I loved my grandson's FaceBook postings where he asked people to send their valuables to him before the end of the world happened. Smart guy.
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Lake Tomahawk, Spring 2012 |
Here are a few of my favorite places, which remind me of all my friends with whom I've shared each place. It's a time of remembering on the darkest day of the year.
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Pear Tree blooming by UU Congregation of the Swannanoa Valley, Black Mountain, 2012 |
A community of people come together every Sunday, year in and year out, here at this small brown church. I especially enjoy being a choir member, and recently started volunteering as secretary for the Board of Trustees.
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Flat Creek, Montreat, NC, Summer 2012 |
Nature is my source, everyone's source. This creek is just there. I like to go walking along it, or sit beside it, listening to its voice in the silence of the woods.
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Blue Ridge Parkway, Fall 2012 |
The Blue Ridge is a place set aside from the areas it passes through, and provides vistas of the mountains around it. I'm a sucker for vistas. Just let me get my camera.
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The Clay Studio of Black Mountain Center for the Arts |
The community studio of which I'm a part, as well as a volunteer once a week. Here many people have spent time shaping mud into artifacts of one kind or another, while the actual process of creativity has changed them. A place of exploration, a place of healing, a place of sharing, a place of sometimes hurting.
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A place in which I can make my home, watching seasons change, slowly building my own space. |
I'm preparing for a new blog in the new year. One which only shows one photo a day of Black Mountain and the Western North Carolina sites. Hope you'll visit it (and I'll include a link here when I start it).
Whatever you do this Solstice-time, enjoy being around those you love. Make the effort to reach out to those you think might be short on human contact. It is appreciated a thousand-fold.
I now post on this blog every other day, and on my
pottery blog the other days of the week. After all, I have a life. Well, I want to have one, anyway.
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