Marc Cohn wrote this song

One Safe Place

How many roads you’ve traveled
How many dreams you’ve chased
Across sand and sky and gravel
Looking for one safe place

Will you make a smoother landing
When you break your fall from grace
Into the arms of understanding
Looking for one safe place

Oh, life is trial by fire
And love’s the sweetest taste
And I pray it lifts us higher
To one safe place

How many roads we’ve traveled
How many dreams we’ve chased
Across sand and sky and gravel
Looking for one safe place

I found this and the last post (with the poster of me) in my draft folder and decided to follow thru with posting them. i also found a one sentence saved draft that said, "this week i turn 50 and i'm scared"... that was over  year ago. deep thinking about that going on here

this song is so poignant to me right now... i am beginning some really great work with my t and it entails find a deep connection with a safe place. the picture at the header of my blog is where i chose to "go."  you can't see it in the photo but i have my feet sticking out over the canyon edge, this is a place on the utah end of the grand canyon... breath taking and sooo wonderful because you drive the canyon to the top. sitting there i felt as though i was claiming a part of my own freedom that i had lost. colorado is my hearts homeland and going there on my own terms was so powerful. connecting with the reality of my youth, the tactile solid proof that i was indeed a kid once and i was someone who mattered even if no one around me helped me to feel that way. safety wasn't part of my reality then and even now i struggle to believe it is real, or can be real...

wow, it has been forever! I have been busy at times and not so busy at other times...

i am still making art, so happy about that... almost filled two sketch books and i want to share my art on campus. can't seem to get the director of our art dept to follow through on her previous approval but there is an opportunity to submit some of my art to a general presentation of students in our gallery. guess i will go for that.

have you ever heard of a book called "wreck this journal" by Keri Smith?  it is one awesome art journal that gives you leading prompts open to your own interpretation  
i have worked on my own over 2 years now and have purchased and mailed out several others to friends. funny thing, when you mail them you tape the book itself shut and address it and take it to the post office. even if you buy your own i highly recommend doing this first because the book is only going to grow as you add your own fabulous expressions to it.

the pic here is of a page i did in one of my good friend's book, and she did one in mine too. this is also a fun addition. one of the prompt asked for me to ask strangers to draw on the page and i decided to do so in my local art museum... it was very cool to do something like that with ppl who already have a great appreciation for the artistic spirit!

well.... i'm off of here. i plan to post more art and more often.

lovingly