Illustration Friday: Focused

Daniel's Entry.

Illustration Friday: Focused

Eva's entry

Place de la République

Statue of Lady Liberty holding her sons. Place de la République.

Forests give me hives

Abandoned bee hives.

Work of Heart

Couple of photos of Daniel's painting at Art and Soul Gallery.

Orschwiller Haiku

We walk, muted by
heron-blue fog, softened by
the hush of rainfall.

Galette des Rois

Daniel and I ate a 'King's Cake' to celebrate the Epiphany. Inside these cakes are hidden one little ceramic trinket and the lucky one who finds it gets to feel special. I found it this year, a ceramic bag of flour. Any thoughts on what a sack of 'la farine' could represent?

Hidden Vendors

Daniel and I heard about an organic farm in a certain neighborhood in Sélestat but gave up on the idea because we just couldn't find it. One of Daniel's friends finally gave us the exact house number and hours of operation (friday's 2-6pm). We timidly rang the doorbell. No one came so we went around to the back.


It was the right place. Now we've become regulars. Is it just the American in me that wants this farmer to plaster his name and offerings somewhere on his property? Or at the very least put up a little post-it on the door with 'go around back' and his hours? He wrinkled up his nose when I asked if I could take a couple pictures of the vegetables. "It's not the good period."

Good morning Class.

Classroom before the students on Wednesday.

Sécurité Sociale

Daniel at the Social Security office. Waiting for our number to be called.

Hexagon Heads

When I saw the cover art for Prince's new three disc album, Lotus Flow3er, I thought immediately of Rudolf Steiner's lectures on bees published by Anthroposophic Press, 1998. Here's an excerpt:
"Our life as human beings is dependent on the fact that we continuously want to form six-sided crystals, beginning with the the head and going down into the rest of the body, but we stop this crystal formation just in time, so that it doesn't happen. The quartz we have in us is responsible for this, not because of its chemical composition but rather by virtue of the fact that it has a strong will to take on a six-sided form as a crystal."
Then, later, Steiner explains the bees' reaction to these invisible six-sided forces at work within us:
"Now when a bee approaches a person who is afraid, it senses in that person, more than it normally does when the blood is properly distributed in the skin, this force that affects things in a six-sided manner, and it wants to obtain from you honey or wax. Whereas if a person calmly approaches the bees, and the blood is distributed evenly, the bee has a very different experience. the bee then notices that the person's blood has the same amount of the six-sided power as it has.
Now, imagine that you are angry as you approach the bees. Anger will make you red. In this case, a lot of blood suffuses the skin, and this blood wants to receive more of the six-sided force. The bee, with its fine sensitivity, notices this and believes that you want to take away from it this six-sided power-so it stings you. These are very fine sensibilities that register the various powers in nature that are playing about out there or are contained outside things."

Jade

Our jade plant, a long time kitchen friend, has developed one little cruciform flower. Daniel spotted it, of course.