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Last moments in the hammock by the lake
Brendan's Magic Medicine Rattle
Adrienne and Erin making their marks
Fay and Shanti with their Magic Medicine Rattles
Sacred Spirit of the Catalpa

Just a few Omega images from my Omega residency. It's sooooo much to process. I wish I'd kept blogging through it, but somehow time both stands still and speeds up in the 3 weeks that I'm there.

I think this year I spent more concentrated time in the Art Hut, making more things than ever before. Although it feels that way, but there doesn't seem to be so much physical evidence of it. The first two weeks I spent working on the catalpa pods every moment. There are more of them than what I actually hung. And I remember spending one full day in the Art Hut sewing something I'd been trying to manifest for years. Over 10 years in fact. Sometimes it takes that long.

So today I am holding space only for myself, and as I notice that, I can understand why there might be a feeling of emptiness. For the last several weeks I have been creating a safe container for others to tap into and express their creativity. At the same time I've been able to dive into my own, and expand my own reaches. Today, in the throes of a chest cold back home, without the loving, supportive Omega community bustling around and inside of me - without three meals nurturing me at just the right moment - I am a little lost.

But before I jump into the whirling dervish of a life that lays at my feet when I return to New York City, I sink into the sadness and space of solitude and silence, touching each emotion as it emerges and subsides, and wondering what I can make of it.

May all your journeys be filled with Magic Medicine.