‘I can, with one eye squinting, take it all as a blessing’. Flannery O’Connor
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I’ve realized in all my going out, and seeking,
what I am most after is home
somewhere my heart opens wide and never closes.
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This year, the fifth for EncaustiCamp, I realized I’d found it.
All that time down under,
all my years trying to feel myself this person
the publications
paintings
followers profess
I am it was all for me a seeking of
home. What I came to-
this place where my heart bursts open and feels right-
where it never wants to close or finish but flourish-
has always been there; it’s in the people I’ve
planted in.
people.
community.
EncaustiCamp.
Home.
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Home is something we go out from seeking-
only to discover it was there all along.
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I’ve always loved home-making
EncaustiCamp is just that
home-making
on a grander scale.
photo credit Doug Loates
EncaustiCamp is because of the people
It’s become
A place of hope-making
Home-Hope-making.
It is for this that I am so grateful to get to-
and I begin the changes to EncaustiCamp 2016 with a flourish
and thrill.
I get to.
I will do my job well 🙂
in love.
trish
next week! Outline of EncaustiCamp EncaustiColony~