I don’t know.

Maybe I never will.

But it feels real….

what I do….importance.

I say I get to

and I mean this

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I get to!

but I also have to.

I’ve learned this this year

I have to.

It is for this

if nothing else-

important.

Someday someone will be able to know

for what~

All that can open the heart in heaven can be found on earth~ Hafiz

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The final of the pbsartistOPENStudio workshops retreat ran last month.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was not perfect. If I must be painfully honest it was the least of the three in greatness. But not for fault of the workshops-

the instructors were amazing. The people fantastic. The time wonderfully spent and wholly captured.

It was for fault of my presence.

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I learned a lot for this, in this time.

 

 

 

 

2016 is the first year running this model.

It has been a spectacular ‘test’ year. It has been filled with revelation and wonder, conviction and confidence.

 

 

 

 

 

As much as anxiety and doubts.

I discovered in this,

 

 

 

 

the diversions from wonder through to doubt,

that they both, all, belong. I can not have to, and get to,

without both faith and doubt.

For this I can say it was

 the best year yet. Yet, only with the conviction it is so because I have learned. And grown. And intend…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

to do different, and the same, and more, and less,

with this wonder and doubt,

confidence and anxiety

each year forward. I will not stop.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I get to. I have to.

There are signs everywhere, if only we learn how to see them. Phil Cousineau

This is why I EncaustiCamp.

And pbsartistOPENStudio

in love.

trish

next up in May: Michelle Belto and Geoffrey Gorman with form 🙂 Information coming soon!