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Digital Art Journaling w/Jessica Sprague & Nancie Rowe Janitz, Journaling Prompt 10: Strength

The strong head in this photo is by Lila Faylor, a Montana artist who lost her brother and children in a plane crash a few years ago. Her work, and her life, epitomize strength to me.

Digital Art Journaling w/Jessica Sprague & Nancie Rowe Janitz – Lesson 10: Escape

Digital Art Journaling w/Jessica Sprague & Nancie Rowe Janitz, Journaling Prompt 9: Listen

The poem is mine:

Listen. It's a new moon night. There is no light to be heard
falling on fresh snow. Snow drifting down so quietly you hear
nothing. Listen. Distant electric humming under the evening
silence. A fountain trickles beneath the ice. Geese call
to one another across the slow river. Listen harder. Do you
hear it? The crackling of stars, colliding starlight, high,
higher, in the dimming, snow-speckled night. That hiss.
That whisper.

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Digital Art Journaling w/Jessica Sprague & Nancie Rowe Janitz – Lesson 9: Music

Digital Art Journaling w/Jessica Sprague & Nancie Rowe Janitz, Journaling Prompt 8: Found

The poem is mine:

we travel together
the dead and i
mother, brother, father, friend

all of us alive and lost

about to miss the boat
with too much luggage
too little time

much is forgotten, misplaced

what belongs
to my father? what
is mine? what is yours?

the sea foams, it’s a living thing

i am dropped off
alone, on a solitary island
i have chosen this

the others carry on without me

on my own
with my music
i wait

to be found

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