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**21*on*the*10th**

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Because the seventh came and went in the current time~trend of supersonicness, and because I have more than seven pics I'd like to show here now.
So.
'Twenty-One on the Tenth' it is, for August 2014.

A medley of pics, of creativities made-by-me and made-by-Nature.
All more or less transient, just here for a while.

Amidst seeming increasing insanity in the World; making + seeing + enjoying + bringing Beauty on through seems sensible, essential.

Bringing Peace, being with Peace, intending Peace. I can do that. I can aim for that, in my own immediate Life. And how that may contribute to a bigger picture, we can all only guess.

I am reminded, these days and nights, of the quality of trance in the times of post-Death-of-a-close-Loved-one.
There is a surreal-ity of making sense of just-carrying-on, while much of the World seems intent on carrying on in a truly inelegant, horrific, violent, destructive fashion. A surreal-ity, and a necessity.
It is all I can do, really: keep on keeping on.
Enjoying what is here, now; keep finding my way, and somehow find Peace with that being neighbours with all else that is there, now.
You know?
I wish Peace for You, + Happy Full Moon, + Happy Creating. x x x

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There are more pics (and source-material-links) in my sketchbookery album at flickr.
Mary-Ann's splendid sketchbookery class continues in fine style, and there are many treasures visible on the flickr class page too.

And yes, those are ripe Red Rowan berries, already, in early August.
Did you spot them, with their Red Rose pals?

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**7*on*the*7th** July 2014

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ZoomZoomZoom. July. ! ! !

I am taking further liberties with the seven-ness, and posting 25 pics today.

Summer in My Lovely Garden cannot be portrayed in seven pics.
Beauty busting out everywhere I look.
Every day; something new. Beings passing, in, on, through.
And me, gazing, in wonder and delight.

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The blackest flowers I have ever seen.

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My crystalpals went for a fullMoonbathe a while back, and stayed to Sunbathe... on clear bright evenings, beams light them up for a few sweet moments.
Like a daily Holy Stone~Sun dance.

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These are tiny flowers, in Real Life. Exquisite.
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My first and only Apple! Growing fast, in Sun and Rain.
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Enjoying a new Sketchbookery course with The Divine Miss Moss.
Mary Ann sparks such fun creativity, with a lovely online gathering.

I've begun posting on my flickr again, too: new Sketchbookery album.
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Splashing about on canvas, too.

I am crazy for Neon Coral just now, fascinated by it's subtle ferocity.
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And On We Go!

x  x  x  j

**7*on*the*7th** June 2014

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Since it's my 52nd birthday, I am taking liberties with seven on the seventh, and posting sixteen pics. It's a kind of seven. Maybe a Mercury~Retro double~back kind. A nice present, to have RetroTime begin on my day.

So grateful for my pals, my people, + my assistants, who send and bring Love and sweet things, to my Life.

Mostly, today: Garden Beauty, under a Big Wild Sky:

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How clever of my pal Wendy to get this delicate treasure shell from Tasmania to Norwich, intact. With lovely fabrics, too.

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A delicious cake, so carefully made by my lovely assistant, Hannah.

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**7*on*the*7th** May 2014

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Tiddler-toes Missy G, (two+a half), sweety-agent-of-Chaos, came to visit.
Barefoot splashing, after watering the plants/slabs, was essential.
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I've been enjoying an online course with Brene Brown; The Gifts of Imperfection.

Some of the work I've done with it is posted on my new Instagram place.

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I have just begun enjoying an online course with Jane Dunnewold: Artist Strength Training.

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**7*on*the*7th** March 2014

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This month's offering: seven Sweet Spring glimpses.

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**7*on*the*7th** February 2014

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A little Mercury Retro Rewind.
Yes, Whoooop, it Is retro time again.

Four years ago I fell in Love with two young Japanese skaters.
Daisuke Takahashi + Takahiko Kozuka.

Sochi Winter Games about-to-happen brought them into my awareness again,
+ I went gathering...
Happy to have found some more glimpses of them to share for my Feb 2014 Magnificent seven.

They're four years older, too. Naturally.
And they kept working their embodied artistry.
Lovely to see the Grace-full evolutions. The subtling, the easing.
Good to see that the wonderful Coach-blessing-back-of-Heart-send-off-pat is still happening. 

Look out for the beyond-the-beyond spin of the Takahiko Snake!
And the sheer Tigerness of Daisuke.

I think if the Sublime Stallion in the previous post was a young man, he'd be flying around the ice with these two Godlings.

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Hearty Thank You to all the vid-makers for their generous creativity, too.

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**7*on*the*7th**

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~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ A new series, beginning 7th January 2014. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

 

Seven good links this month:

1.  Deep Sky Mix ~ music for stargazing (2013), from low light mixes.
 ~ I only just discovered the world of Mixcloud.
Splendid, free + ad-free gatherings of good sounds. This mix is....truly spacious.

(And as I wrote this post, a new mix link alert came in from low light:
'a frozen world'. Timely Bonus!)


2.  Simplify101.
Aby offers various forms of assistance in the decluttering + organis/zing zone.
I greatly enjoyed/am enjoying a recent 'live' course with her.


3.  Today's Angel Card.


4.  CrystalHerbs gem and crystal essences.


5.  brain pickings
- a glorious medley of goodness,
(found via The Divine Miss Moss.)


6.  Annie's wonderful artistry ~  especially her Stag.


7.  My stitchpics.2 pinterest board.


Gathering Winter Dreaming.

Enjoy!

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