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This TOUCHSTONE pays homage to water.
Jeff Volk's words from "Element of Life," (see below) glide through Linda DeHart's flowing waterscapes from COLORS IN MOTION: The Human Journey. Blake Rowe, composer and pianist, lyrically calls us to experience the gifts of our water planet, and to protect and preserve it, with his piece called "Convocation," from the CD Meditations at Midnight. For more information about Blake and his music, visit www.blakerowe.com.
Rippling, tranquil, raging, flowing, flooding, frightful, quenching, steamy, swampy, pure, clouded, turgid, sweet, salty, boundless, irresistible, beauty-full - sustainer and taker of life.
Water is the key to the sublime cycle of life that lifts our hearts, gives us our existence, supports, threatens and vanquishes us. We dance with the Earth, with the water; we are its caretakers, and we take its gifts.
Share this TOUCHSTONE with others: like water itself, seek the level of healthy balance for the Earth and ourselves.
COLORS IN MOTION will be featured in the coming edition of Health Environments Research and Design (HERD) Journal in an article that raises the question of whether non-representational art in hospital environments enhances positive outcomes for patients, families and staff by arousing curiosity and engaging the viewers. Watch for more information in next month's TOUCHSTONE.
As an architect, I would love to see COLORS IN MOTION being incorporated in large public spaces where people would have the opportunity to stop, see, listen and enjoy a moment of pure art in motion.
I took time and EXPERIENCED COLORS IN MOTION. Thank you for reminding me and guiding me to the ENDLESS BLISS. What an experience!!! Your ART sent a stream of energy throughout my being. What a blessing...
| - Zofia Monika Dove, Poet |
Thank you for another beautiful experience. I could feel my shoulders relax and I cannot believe that that was two minutes -- I can't tell if it felt longer or shorter! I did not realize how deeply spiritual it would be. Thank you for this Beautiful Beautiful art work and spirit. I am always looking forward to the next one.
| - R.S., Ballet Theatre Administrator |
The April Touchstone, and the earlier ones, are just magical - thank you for their beauty, joy, and healing.
| - C.H., Metaphysical Author |
Extraordinary - wow - just wonderful!
| - T.K., Visionary and CEO |
Beautiful, moving, transformative. Really don't have the words. Am so delighted to see how COLORS IN MOTION is moving and growing.
I Am Flow.
I will not stand still.
No force can hold me motionless.
Even in my frozen, crystalline brilliance
a part of me forever dances,
my breath suffusing subtle essence
of my presence
into you.
I Am Constant
yet impermanent,
of myriad form
yet always the same.
I never strive--
have nothing to achieve,
I follow the path of grace and ease.
I permeate the hardest stone
dissolve the strongest steel
obstacles, I flow around, effortlessly--
yet everything will yield to my perpetual persistence, eventually.
I exist in all Creation
the vital force which animates
this intricate play of matter
bringing fluidity into the splendid abundance of Nature.
I flow through you
you flow through me.
Without me all is dust
meaningless, lifeless, unable to feel.
I am continuity,
connecting all that is
with all that has ever been--
circulating myself through myself
nourishing all that lives and breathes
bathing our living, liquid globe
with the promise of purity
which is my nature,
and is thereby yours as well.
©2006 Jeff Volk
Written Christmas morning, 2005, revised repeatedly throughout January.
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