“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” Vincent.

*The Murder of Van Gogh* 88” X 54” acrylic on canvas.
For Vincent and for his lost works confiscated and destroyed by German fascists,1933-1939.

Peace/Shalom. 🙏

Whales sing songs of the Stars, songs older than time.
Obliged 🙏

"The prestige of Caesar Tiberias was so great, that the Sea of Galilee soon came to be named the Sea of Tiberias; however, the Jewish population continued to call it Yam HaKineret, its traditional name." Wiki.

Self-Portrait as Herod Antipas with Salome, Josephus, and head of John the Baptist. 🙏

Beloveds,
Tears are holy.
Rage is holy.
Your body is holy.
Our communities are holy.
The land under our feet is holy.
We are and will keep on
rising up.
We are and will keep on
letting the tears fall.
We are and will keep on
holding one another.

Lydia Wylie-Kellermann

Peace/Joy/Love 🙏

”… and where they make
a desert, they call it peace.” Tacitus.

“Isness is God.” From Meister Eckhart’s “Book of the Heart.”
H/t Jon Sweeney.

tatha-agata
(thus-gone)

spirits swirling
buddha’s silent ashes
mind the tides

(Double bluff beach.
Snow storm.
Whidbey Island)

the whales are singing

i’m going to the beach
to hear their winter songs
opening the ears of my pilgrim heart
into the deep gray-blue shadows
copulating waves
birthing brilliant stars

thank you
thank you all
🙏

(Sky-whales. 36” X 36”. Acrylic on canvas.

TzimTzum

72 named of gØd in Hebrew
99 names of gØd in Arabic
Chiseled agonies of Palestine

(Not pictured: The infinite mystery of the nameless gØd found more in silence than our hand made idols, clamoring vanities and clanging symbols. Shalom/Salaam/Pax

*50 X 30 acrylic on canvas.

Poetry wasn’t created when the
First poet ran into the Neander valley crying
“Wolf Wolf.”

Poetry was created when the
First poet ran into the Neander valley crying
“Wolf Wolf”
And there was no wolf behind them.

Russian fable.

*Elly and Daniel seeking rimes and rumes among island crags. 🙏

*The Buddha's Last Instruction*

Make of yourself a light
Said the Buddha
Before he died
I think of this every morning
As the light burns upward
Touching everywhere
Oceans of yellow waves
A million flowers on fire
I feel of inexplicable value
Mary Oliver

48x48 acrylic
For Thich Nhat Hanh 🙏

Listen,
whatever you see
and love
that’s where you are.

Mary Oliver, Dog Songs.
(Elly and Daniel, Whidbey Island.)

Guernica/Gaza

“If grief can be a doorway to love,
then let us all weep for the world we are breaking apart
so we can love it back to wholeness again.”
Robin Wall Kimmerer.

Painting inspired by Picasso's astoniching work: “Guernica.”

96” X 42” acrylic on board.
Shalom/Pax/Salaam 🙏