Experiments in wisdom

• Writing starters: “my wise self knows…”
• Make marks: how does it feel in your body when you find wisdom?
• Make sounds: sound like wisdom.
• Objects in space: choose five objects that speak to you will wisdom and arrange them.
• Write or perform a dialogue between an owl and a redwood tree.
• Move through it: be a bird with wisdom beneath your wings.

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My results:

[This is a painting I did several years ago (when I still could use my hands). The notion of yellow, surrounded by colors painted on to a web background so the colors blurred occurred over and over in my work. It seemed to symbolize my reaching for wisdom.