tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1092551819707957075Wed, 21 Feb 2018 20:18:57 +0000Art PhotographyCreative Prompts 365 ProjectArt 1000 FacesArt DigitalCreative PromptsGrief ExplorationGriefCreative Prompts CEDArt JournalMeditation ExplorationHolidayArt SketchesDay of the DeadArt PaintingsTravelHow ToCreative Grief GraphicsGrief ToolsHeros JourneyCoachingPoetryCollaborationsArt HennaBlog FestivalsArt BirdsArt DollsArt TipsArt KabukiGrief WorkshopsArt ATCsArt AlteredArtist FeaturedBookCreative Prompts DreamsThank YousWorkshopsFilms To InspireFreebies and GiveawaysGrief MemorialBook Club Soul CoachingCreative Prompts CatalystsGrief Social JusticeArt StampsCreative Prompts DreamboardsCreative Prompts Sunday ScribblingsEventsMeditationMeditation PonderingsArt CollageBook Club 12 SecretsCreative Prompts Friday Fill InFoodieGrief ZineArt Give-awaysArt JizoBook Club WTJCreative Prompt ScannerCreative Prompts Art House CoopCreative Grief StudioShoppingArt ComixBook Club Joy DietCreative Grief Coaching StudioCreative Prompts Grief + Creativity ChatsCreative Prompts Kickin It Old SkoolGrief Mini WorkshopHeros Journey QuotesMeditation 1 MinuteSwapArt Mixed MediaAsk Kara...Chronic IllnessHeros Journey MythArt ClayArt Culture JamArt FabricArt RecycledArt ZentangleFamily PhotosArt Altered MapBook AuthorBook ReviewCreative Prompts Inspiration ThursdayCreative Prompts Wild Earth SpiritEveryday Creative PracticeGrief MetaphorsLoving KindnessMizuko StarValentinesArt BuddhaArt MandalaArt PrintsArtist InterviewsBlog Festivals Mister Rogers NeighborhoodCreative Prompts 30 Day Journal ProjectCreative Prompts IFCreative Prompts Lists of 100Creative Prompts True NorthCreative Prompts WishcastingCreative Prompts still life 365Henna How ToMeditation Easy WorldMeditation TappingMeditation The WorkNarrative ExplorationArt Deck of CardsArt EncausticArt Paper DollsBook 1000 FacesBook 1000 Permissions GrantedBook ArtsCreative Prompts Journal BlissSpectrum 2015ActivismArt Chunky BookArt FilmsArt Gelli PressBarb SherBook New Jim CrowBusiness of ArtCreative Prompts 8ThingsCreative Prompts Circe CircleCreative Prompts Do LessCreative Prompts Tip JunkieGo Make Your Own ListHeros Journey ShereneHow To TransfersMeditation MusingsMuditaRestorative JusticeSpeaking EventsSpectrum 2016Street ArtStudio IdeasTree ArtArt CookiesArt DucksArt FiberArt FlagsArt Madame ZoldaArt Paper BagsArt Photography Self PortraitArt Red ThreadArt SculptureArt Tissue PaperArt WoodBeauty And BrokennessBirthdaysBitmojiBook Artists WayBook Geography Of LossBook Intention and WhimsyBook Refuse To ChooseBook To Linger On Hot CoalsBook Zen Doodle Oodles of DoodlesCharitiesCreative Prompt MusicCreative Prompt Selfie CompassionCreative Prompts EasystreetCreative Prompts Mondo BeyondoCreative Prompts Right Where You AreCreative Prompts Under The TreeCreative Prompts Undervalued SelfCreative Prompts Verb TribeCreative Prompts Watery WednesdayFailureFalling WaterGalleryGardeningGrief EducationGroup CoachingHungerInspirationsKaracaustic StyleLibrary LoveMeditation Live The Life You LoveOnline ClassesPatti DighPublishingSelf PublishingSelf TalkShow And TellStop Stopping YourselfTech TroublesUlanov QuotesVashon Food BankYou Have Permission WorkshopLiving My Practice: Exploring Grief + Love, Life + Deathhttp://motherhenna.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Kara Chipoletti Jones)Blogger888125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1092551819707957075.post-4159659631566500879Sat, 18 Jun 2016 23:16:00 +00002016-06-18T16:16:59.396-07:00Art CollageArt DigitalCreative Grief StudioCreative PromptsGriefGrief Exploration The mixed tape. Was a very real thing in my youth. Is now more of a metaphor. In my own heART and in collaboration over at the Creative Grief Studio, taking a creative approach to grief -- and all of life really -- is the foundation of my BEing. I move through the world, I enter relationships, I create heARTworks by taking a creative approach. In my youth, the mixed tape was a most creative http://motherhenna.blogspot.com/2016/06/mixed-tapes-mixed-media-mish-mosh-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kara Chipoletti Jones)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1092551819707957075.post-4461515910810094400Fri, 17 Jun 2016 20:05:00 +00002016-06-17T13:09:56.978-07:00Art 1000 FacesArt SketchesBarb SherCreative Grief StudioCreative Prompt ScannerGriefGrief Social Justice It really is an odd thing to be human. Being active in the world of learning and social justice, we can intersect with such destruction, such oppression, and overwhelming need. And at the very same time, man, dude, loves, when we CHOOSE creative approaches; when we decide we will use technology for good; when we consciously use what is at hand to come together; well, there is such beauty http://motherhenna.blogspot.com/2016/06/star-gazing-heart-pounding-and-love.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kara Chipoletti Jones)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1092551819707957075.post-5152453651150457884Mon, 13 Jun 2016 20:12:00 +00002016-06-13T13:15:11.287-07:00Art 1000 FacesArt SketchesGriefGrief Social Justice Okay. So if you were here yesterday for my "do not fuck with me" post and you are here with me today for this "it is too hard. i'm running way" post, then you are getting to witness the full range of what it means to PROCESS, to live a life of practice not perfect. Look, the thing is that, we as humans, just are going to have a range of responses and actions around the lives we live. And http://motherhenna.blogspot.com/2016/06/you-cant-pinpoint-anything-because-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kara Chipoletti Jones)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1092551819707957075.post-2247062923039454256Sat, 11 Jun 2016 05:06:00 +00002016-06-10T22:06:50.757-07:00Art Gelli PressArt MandalaBarb SherCreative Prompt ScannerCreative Prompts Verb TribeGriefGrief MetaphorsGrief Social JusticePatti Digh Couple of years ago, I took one of Patti Digh's Verb Tribe courses. The creative approach that had the most lasting impact on me was her insistence that we write our different topics each day using a sharpie pen on a paper bag. Her idea behind it was that if we get all caught up in the "preciousness" of "good" pens and "quality" paper and such, we set ourselves up to have to be "perfect" and http://motherhenna.blogspot.com/2016/06/paper-bags-throw-away-lives-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kara Chipoletti Jones)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1092551819707957075.post-6235479860749197233Wed, 08 Jun 2016 23:48:00 +00002016-06-08T18:34:15.637-07:00Art PhotographyChronic IllnessCreative Grief StudioCreative Prompt ScannerGardeningGrief MetaphorsGrief Social Justice Keep fooling myself into believing it's summer, and then another batch of gray, cool, sometimes wet days come and disrupt the previous few days of sun and shadow and warmth that finally got to the marrow of my bones. That's what keeps us green and all Pacific Northwest-y, I know. But man, I'm sorry, I'm a sun and warm ocean being. Pretty sure many past lives were lived as sea turtle or http://motherhenna.blogspot.com/2016/06/dreams-and-intersections-and-blindspots.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kara Chipoletti Jones)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1092551819707957075.post-7390977471311539343Fri, 20 May 2016 22:52:00 +00002016-05-20T17:10:47.414-07:00ActivismArt PhotographyFoodieGrief Social Justice It's been one of those weeks. Things have changed significantly since last summer health-wise. It is great to know my blood numbers are normal-ish, cells are larger/more saturated, everything shows up normal w liver, pancreas, gall, sugar, with iron levels finally getting to build without drops blah blah blah. And still, random days, random pains. Said it before, grateful to have ways to http://motherhenna.blogspot.com/2016/05/pain-and-practical-guides.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kara Chipoletti Jones)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1092551819707957075.post-3247133485413791694Mon, 16 May 2016 22:39:00 +00002016-05-16T15:39:41.380-07:00Art PhotographyBook Artists WayChronic IllnessCreative Grief StudioCreative Prompt ScannerGrief You'll find many teachers who will tell you these things. Barb Sher will tell you to ditch the all or nothing, and just give it 5 minutes. She'll tell you to not discount anything. Wherever your interest is pulled, NOTE it!! Treat it as scientific information. You don't have to understand the mystery of it yet, but allow your interest in it to count and be noted. Give your interests 5 http://motherhenna.blogspot.com/2016/05/practice-is-so-easy-its-hard.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kara Chipoletti Jones)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1092551819707957075.post-2786342676983298290Fri, 13 May 2016 01:01:00 +00002016-05-16T16:28:46.818-07:00Art PhotographyGriefGrief Social Justice Today's post comes to you, typed one finger, on my phone, while sitting outside in the garden. It is true that technology certainly can be used for evil. But if you had told me two decades ago, I could sit here in my introverted heaven *and* connect with an audience that is potentially world wide, I'd have thought you were nuts. _____ Hawk told me about a PBS documentary he watched on guns http://motherhenna.blogspot.com/2016/05/hunger-ignorance-and-lack-of-patience.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kara Chipoletti Jones)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1092551819707957075.post-8125221440688395579Wed, 11 May 2016 23:15:00 +00002016-05-11T16:15:00.823-07:00Art PhotographyBookBook AuthorFoodieGrief Social Justice Sometime you wonder up a plain old driveway and discover beauty growing from the cracks between the rocks, and you just have to stop and marvel at it. This vine was at the end of the drive, just shining in all its glory yesterday eve with bright white blossoms and centers so yellow they looked like the color of egg yolks. Have no idea what they are. Anyone know? ----- Just for the http://motherhenna.blogspot.com/2016/05/hungers-and-books-and-beauty.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kara Chipoletti Jones)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1092551819707957075.post-1833642890029546653Tue, 10 May 2016 16:25:00 +00002016-05-10T09:25:38.349-07:00Art DigitalArt PhotographyBitmojiFailureGrief Exploration You'd never know it, but the above piece started out as a photograph of flower stems in a blue glass bottle. Some days I don't like what I get from a shoot and so go in with digital tools to alter and push and pull and layer and filter and play. Can I call this my version of Picasso's self portrait at 90 years old? Anyway, there are metaphors in there with the heARTmaking process for how I http://motherhenna.blogspot.com/2016/05/what-you-see-or-dont-see.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kara Chipoletti Jones)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1092551819707957075.post-8878919193884924103Sun, 08 May 2016 20:14:00 +00002016-05-08T13:14:19.291-07:00Art PhotographyGriefGrief ExplorationGrief Social Justice You just start to let your fingers move across the keyboard because it is the only thing that will keep you from seeking out anyone with a big phat joint that you can feel in your fingers, smell and taste as it knocks you back out to sleep, oh the romanticizing of drugs that an addict's mind will do is incredible. Of course once the tapping on the keyboard starts, you remember also the paranoiahttp://motherhenna.blogspot.com/2016/05/extremes-calling-bullshit-when-i-see-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kara Chipoletti Jones)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1092551819707957075.post-7898266959739683973Sat, 07 May 2016 20:13:00 +00002016-05-07T13:13:04.928-07:00Art PhotographyBook New Jim CrowGriefGrief ExplorationGrief Social Justice Dream sequences Walking from one job to the next. Spending time walking slowly in the sun with a friend to talk and catch up. Arriving at second job which is someone's house, no one home though. Standing at this table to check my phone before digging into whatever I was to do there. And the smell of dryer sheets is overwhelming. To the point I feel nauseated and like a migraine is coming http://motherhenna.blogspot.com/2016/05/there-is-no-way-that-i-cannot-see-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kara Chipoletti Jones)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1092551819707957075.post-8726632369225475451Fri, 06 May 2016 23:00:00 +00002016-05-06T16:00:47.941-07:00Art PhotographyBookGriefGrief Social JusticeInspirationsThank Yous Good finish. Have you ever thought about how odd that phrase is? The runner had a good finish to that race. Finish? Really? The runner, unless this was the last thing she'll ever do before death, isn't finished. They'll review w coach, keep stretching and practicing yoga or whatever strength stuff they do, there will be more races most likely. Finish is relative to a particular time and http://motherhenna.blogspot.com/2016/05/starts-finish-firsts-laststhe-pacing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kara Chipoletti Jones)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1092551819707957075.post-5963202643774352084Thu, 05 May 2016 17:06:00 +00002016-05-05T10:06:35.592-07:00Art PhotographyCreative Prompts DreamsGriefGrief Social JusticeUlanov Quotes Wonky. Seems to be the word for this day that has just started. Already wonky. Though I can hear Hawk in my head saying, "But isn't it always wonky. And so if it is always that way, then isn't that just your normal?" Yeah. I love that human.  ----- Dream scene I woke from was intense. On a campus somewhere, not one I've ever seen in physical world. There was a lab/art studio that http://motherhenna.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-new-and-old.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kara Chipoletti Jones)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1092551819707957075.post-6740799882871781024Wed, 04 May 2016 20:38:00 +00002016-05-04T13:46:15.931-07:00Art PhotographyChronic IllnessGriefGrief ExplorationGrief Metaphors chron·ic [ˈkränik] adj. 1. (of an illness) persisting for a long time or constantly recurring. "chronic bronchitis" synonyms: persistent, long-standing, long-term;  2. (of a person) having an illness persisting for a long time or constantly recurring. "a chronic asthmatic" 3. (of a problem) long-lasting and difficult to eradicate. "the school suffers from chronic overcrowding" synonyms: http://motherhenna.blogspot.com/2016/05/minty-fresh-truths.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kara Chipoletti Jones)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1092551819707957075.post-3156458915697274501Mon, 02 May 2016 17:41:00 +00002016-05-02T10:41:01.330-07:00Art PhotographyChronic IllnessCreative Prompt Scanner One of the most difficult creative practices for me is the practice of not getting attached to any particular part of a process. Dealing with chronic health stuff means confronting this on a regular basis. One day, things go swimmingly and ooooooh it feels great. Energy levels stay with me. Stuff gets done. It seems relatively easy to be engaged with other humans and creatures. But as with anyhttp://motherhenna.blogspot.com/2016/05/a-mass-of-sleep-eyes-and-moving-slowly.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kara Chipoletti Jones)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1092551819707957075.post-7944400571233696614Sat, 30 Apr 2016 17:25:00 +00002016-04-30T11:45:47.006-07:00Art PhotographyCoachingGriefGrief ExplorationGrief Social Justice There are days when I cannot escape my head. Big philosophical thoughts take over and rule the roost. There are days when people I'm working with in terms of creative grief experiences or education or exploration cannot escape their heads. The trying to think it through. The trying to understand, make sense of it, figure out the "right" thing(s) to do.  Thing is though, we all make http://motherhenna.blogspot.com/2016/04/missed-takes-cut-dont-print-do-that.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kara Chipoletti Jones)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1092551819707957075.post-1987839166392178865Fri, 29 Apr 2016 16:28:00 +00002016-04-29T09:45:53.260-07:00Art PhotographyBook New Jim CrowCreative Prompt ScannerGriefGrief Social Justice It is amazing how connected yet disconnected my mind is from my body. The body can fall into bed, beyond exhausted, aching for nothing but surrender to sleep's oblivion, but it is like the mind is clueless. The mind begins to spin beautiful blog posts on topics that my heart so wants to speak to, and the mind will continue until the ache has turned to pain and the body just shuts down. Uponhttp://motherhenna.blogspot.com/2016/04/deconstruction-of-being-human.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kara Chipoletti Jones)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1092551819707957075.post-4479400278790486022Tue, 26 Apr 2016 16:20:00 +00002016-04-26T09:20:36.225-07:00Art FilmsArt PhotographyCreative Prompt MusicFilms To InspireGriefTravelBey's Lemonade looks unflinchingly at grief. Of all kinds. Not a day goes by that I don't think of my dead kids. And though you may not believe me, not a day goes by that I don't think of Tamir's mother, Trayvon's mother, Sandra's mother. Though you may say Bey's work is not for a white woman like me, she still has my whole entire heart for giving grief and love visible space. When Charles Blow http://motherhenna.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-bones-of-my-body-have-been.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kara Chipoletti Jones)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1092551819707957075.post-6090477264363625596Mon, 25 Apr 2016 13:12:00 +00002016-04-25T06:12:21.665-07:00Art PhotographySelf TalkTravelProcess process process, Loves. Please don't forget that being alive is all about process. Really pause and question what is happening when you hear in your own head or when others ask, "What do you do?" or "Should I be doing more?" or "better?"  or "different?" Etc. Just consider these spaces long enough to discover if they are being asked violently or non-violently. It is one thing to feel http://motherhenna.blogspot.com/2016/04/sparklies-and-streaks.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kara Chipoletti Jones)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1092551819707957075.post-2667865887792256644Sun, 24 Apr 2016 12:13:00 +00002016-04-24T05:13:09.493-07:00Art PhotographyCreative Grief StudioTravelYou know those long summer days where you had so much fun that you didn't notice til the next day that you are sorta water-logged and crispy at the edges of your eyes from too much sun -- but it was worth it coz the day was incredible? Yeah, that's me today. The Creative Grief Studio reTREAT group held huge transformative space all day yesterday for each other, and the creativity of heART shared http://motherhenna.blogspot.com/2016/04/slow-wake-one-eyeball-at-time.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kara Chipoletti Jones)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1092551819707957075.post-3620670340179298457Sat, 23 Apr 2016 12:15:00 +00002016-04-23T05:15:22.929-07:00Creative Grief StudioGrief EducationGrief WorkshopsTravelToday's the day a group of us are meeting here in the Burgh to explore ideas about tending self and heARTwork as a process of personal and professional development. As usual, I'm kind of a weird one and really dislike sitting in a conference room chair all day. So the space is set in a circle for all of us to have chair if we like, but also I'll be taking a few pillows from my hotel room down to http://motherhenna.blogspot.com/2016/04/don-steal-pillows.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kara Chipoletti Jones)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1092551819707957075.post-2714304582919265646Fri, 22 Apr 2016 14:36:00 +00002016-04-22T11:49:02.018-07:00Art PhotographyGriefGrief ExplorationGrief MemorialTravelIt all happens so fast, doesn't it? Life. That fun thing you were looking forward to doing. Even the stuff you dreaded doing or dreading while doing it. It all just keeps on moving. ----- It was very difficult to understand, the week after our Kota died, that the world just goes on regardless. Watching as my feeds turn purple today, thoughtful posts shared, meaning making everywhere, and even http://motherhenna.blogspot.com/2016/04/side-step-of-swift-life.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kara Chipoletti Jones)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1092551819707957075.post-3005775933979205862Thu, 21 Apr 2016 14:12:00 +00002016-04-21T07:12:57.661-07:00Art PhotographyGriefTravelNot sure why it is difficult for me to remember that everything is an oscillation, but I do forget. Often. When abundances of things are unfolding and my energy is snap snap snapping, I start to want it to continue forever. And then as my energy wanes because I need to shift to slower pace to integrate all that's unfolded, I dread suddenly "not being good enough" to maintain the energy levels. http://motherhenna.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-practice-of-oscillation-remembering.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kara Chipoletti Jones)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1092551819707957075.post-3342958493640262249Wed, 20 Apr 2016 13:21:00 +00002016-04-20T06:26:05.888-07:00ActivismArt PhotographyCreative Prompt Selfie CompassionGriefGrief ExplorationTravelIt is an interesting thing to consciously enter down a road where you begin to take more than just a surface look at things. Including yourself. There was a drawing of a youngish white woman with some lettering and arrows indicating her body that declared her body is her own, not a democracy, but entirely her own. Very much yes. Though that was not aimed at me because I am not young, I still http://motherhenna.blogspot.com/2016/04/when-you-see.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Kara Chipoletti Jones)0