Introducing the first piece in my newest collection:
"Love Thy Neighbor"
36"x48"
Acrylic collage on wood panel
Location: Our shared re-imagined front yard
Plants represented: Palo Verde, White Sage, Apricot Mallow, Desert Willow, Our Lord’s Candle, & Shaw’s Agave
This piece seems especially fitting for our collective global outcry of heartache and fear. Instead of continued isolation and feelings of total despair and helplessness, let us pay even more attention to each other and the world immediately around us. And now…a poem!
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"Love thy Neighbor"
A holy discontent
A weary world
Divorced from nature
Isolated from one another
Turn from the shadows
And the idol of achievement
Resist the busyness and the distraction
Step off from the pavement
Come to the table
Come and rest
Lay down your burdens
Be filled with the best
Plant for today
Hope for tomorrow
Let your roots grow down deep
Even in the drought, fear and sorrow
Attend to the flowers
Attend to the trees
Look to the birds
The butterflies and bees
Pay attention to the eyes
The souls and feet
Of those immediately around you
The ones that share the name of your street