All Hands On Deck!
I had a dream.
I painted the dream: Healing Hands
I used outlines of my real hands to shed waves of light into a painting. Recently, I placed my hands over the outline above and they still fit the image! The painting is only two colors, Burnt Siena and Cadmium Orange Light.
Fun and Easy!
Later my husband saw The painting and said, "Do you see the open book? You are downloading your book!" I hadn't seen the book at all~ ! I had been randomly writing for "years" in bits and pieces of short stories and experiences, notes and photos tossed into a paper bag! My "book bag." Out of the jumbles of words/worlds and scraps of paper gradually became, after 24 years, my first "book."
* Silver Butterfly Create A Vision was coming to life~
Now in 2020-2021...."Hands and tasks are also very important"
"Wash Hands, Always Wash Hands!"
PPE on hands....(double layers) of gloves, small 100 % cotton gloves covered by disposable gloves (non latex). Plain soaps and plain products, reduced chemicals and fragrance free solutions help dishwashers and washing machines too....lawn work, chemical free, helps people, pets, and plants stay healthy and safe. Windows and doors open even this winter. Nature walks in the yard all lead to a different perspective in thought and action. Take a breath of fresh air, light, and color! Full spectrum natural light creates an energetic calm.
One hand wonders: Use one hand to pick up a pet's bowl, keep the other hand clean to go through doors. Or, do dishwashing chore then load the washing machine. After washing hands, (again) with clean hands, return to preparing food or eating breakfast.
Recently I was thinking about hands and motor skills and strong hands and hands of light. Feathery fine detail may define the painter or broad strokes of brilliant colors, placed at random opens worlds of fun, adventure, and imagination. I am smiling as I write! I pick up my brushes, using imagination~ I see all my brushes, large and small.: "Old Friends"
The calligrapher picks up her pen...a message sent of love and joy. The brush painter loads the brush with ink, ready to create...SNAILS!
Snails Pace
How about the musician? So many emotions are emitted through the hands directly from the heart.
ART AND SOUL
The violinist? The cello player, the washboard expert, the autoharp, the bagpipe, the mandolin, the sitar, oh so many! Oh so variable from country to country, from village to village, from mountains to seas. The drummer strikes a beat, a chant, a dance, a feather touch, a loud gong rings, the alphorn carries sound waves across mountain valleys.
The cigar box guitar!
I watched the hands of the musicians as they played....some hands touched the harp softly, gently, another harp player displayed a strong strum on the harp to convey unlimited unrestricted emotion. The violinist: one had hands like a spider arched. I also saw "tarantula" hands on the keyboard of some classic pianists, while other pairs of hands were delicate like mist. Many pounded the keys as indicated by the music or composer. Some hands floated over the keys in a hypnotic way, "hand over hand."
The Moog synthesizer (ancient), the keyboard player! The digital musician and sound engineer! The marimba! Again the drum! My favorite (wait for it) The Triangle!
"And the drum beats out of time," Time After Time, sung by Cindi Lauper.
Many musicians close their eyes as they played, "another dimension" of deep feeling and radiance emitting outward, frequencies to heal, sooth, or stimulate.
And then I watched a knitting show. Hands in Action! Creativity Rules~ The styles of kitting vary with each expert, fun and energetic, old fashioned charts I still recognize! New ideas too. Crochet hooks and knitting needles, color and light, soft clicking sounds greet me. Smile. Spinning yarn by hand with a spindle or spinning wheel, way beyond me!
Hands Across the Worlds
The woodcarver works with sharp concentration for fine detailed wood carving, another expert displays house building and carpenter skills. A woman in her 80's splitting wood in the mountains is an example for us all! Working with tooled leather or even making boots, saddles, and tack for horses require design and thought. Many hands, many skills "All of the Above"
Weather or Not
The Weather Expert pointing to the highs and lows, the winds and sands, the sky phenomenon, stars and planets. Enthusiastic smiles with sweeping hand gestures have you focused and interested.
Who Could Forget?
The Doctor coming to help, the Nurse comforting, a Dentist with precise skills like a painter, accurate, focused. Healing Touch Therapy, Acupressure, Acupuncture, EFT, Meditation and more. Gentle physical exercises can help get you started,
Good Food Good Friends
Then, I saw hominy being prepared outdoors in the old fashioned way in deep old iron kettles, stirred with love and a heritage of pride in the food being prepared. Cornbread cooked in iron skillets, fresh churned butter melting and syrups, real maple syrup. Buckwheat! Real Buckwheat! Rolling Dough, Mom and Ma making clover leaf rolls. Ice Cream made at home (really hard to turn that crank). My Dad helped as we all waited impatiently.
New This Year: Good this Year
More physical "work" for me and chores galore. However my Hands and arms and legs became stronger! Whole body and mind focus became clearer and more flexible, fueled by daily walks around our yard, enjoying, bird songs, flowers, and skies of all colors. Joint pain and rashes vanished by staying home instead of breathing disinfectants in stores and offices. I couldn't believe the difference! "Imagine!"
I added an extra hour of sleep/rest recently! What a great change~ 9 hours a night, calms the over thinking mind. I actually wake up refreshed, stretch and get up slowly. Ease into the day, eager for activity.
It is good to be young, twice in a Lifetime~
And then there are the "jars!" I love jars! I love working with jars....and I was strong enough this year to carefully pick up a variety of glass mason jars in various sizes and fill them with filtered water every day! Fresh water in clean glass jars! Non of that plastic! Amazing! Interesting that arranging the jars and filling them reminds me of precision paintings skills, moving objects in space, nimbly. Putting the colored coded lids on the jars reminds me of twisting paint tube caps back on the tube. Variable colored lids tell me when to rotate the jars into their next wash cycle: "All in Order."
Mom's Science Lab, Mom Ain't Here!
All Hands on Keys!
And of course, there is the typewriter, "keyboard" or phone touch/text/ zoom, graphic art, musical concerts and much more. Look at the hand positions, they are all different, all correct. I bang away, quick or thoughtful, with only one or two fingers! YEA!
All Together Now! The Beatles
Dancing Hands, together and alone: Out in the Park! Ballet and More
Wave Hands Like Clouds~ Tai Chi, Qigong
Yoga~ Silent Speaking
Raise Hands: Stretch and Breathe all around the world~ Intend Better
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Resources:
PBS.org,
Great Performances, Beyond the Canvas
Knit and Crochet Now
Fit 2 Stitch, creative sewing designing, and Quilting Arts, adventures with many techniques of fabric painting, embroidery, three dimensional work, wall hangings
P. Allen Smith's Garden Home: recipes, color and design, home and garden delight, sheep, chickens, music and more
Dinner and A Book, PBS.org (WNIT local program)
Texas Country Reporter, Typewriter Rodeo, Cigar Box Guitar and more on RFDTV
Weather Report and Beyond: ABC 57, South Bend, Elkhart, and Michiana. A local team of experts dive deep, the science of weather.
Music:
The Beatles All Together Now
U2 The Best of 1980-1990, "I'm wide awake..."
Cindy Lauper sings Time After Time
The Police, Every Breath You Take
Dahlis Roy: Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Practitioner
Images by Dahlis
Healing Hands, oil painting
Snails Pace, ink brush painting, one stroke, antennae are added with a small detail brush
Freshness. fresh fruits
Sacred Geometry, colorful collection
