by Marty Coleman | Apr 27, 2011 | It's A Tornado! - 2011, 2013, Rose Kennedy |
GREAT NEWS! As some of you may know, I do artwork outside of the napkins. I have focused on photo-collage work for many years and I found out yesterday that an exhibition proposal I submitted 6 months ago has been accepted. The show will open in Tulsa in January of 2012. I am very excited about it! I will keep you posted about the details as the time approaches. If you want to know what the theme is, read this napkin and commentary, it tells it all.
We look at ancient ruins and we think they have value. Toppled over, chipped, missing big chunks and yet we see their beauty. Oil paintings covered with years of grime and soot, cracked and drying and yet we see them as beautiful. Old furniture on Antique Road Show, better not have refinished it since the original condition, all scratched up and dirty, is much more valuable.
What about what remains of you after a storm? Are you chipped, scarred, damaged, missing pieces? You are MORE valuable and MORE relatable in that condition than in a pristine one. You have become real after that storms.
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by Marty Coleman | Jun 23, 2009 | Rose Kennedy |
I have thought about ‘moments’ a lot over the years. Mostly I have focused
on the arrival of a moment, when something happens that demands you
make a decision about how to respond. That moment when you must
choose an ethical or moral path.
For example, a friend wrote recently about taking dance lessons.
There was a moment in the first group lesson where one of the other
students was about to be left out of an activity. People had paired up and
my friend could see this young woman, shy and nervous, wasn’t going
to be included. Nobody’s fault, no evil intentions, just how it played out.
The girl was shrugging her shoulders at the teacher’s encouragement.
My friend had a moment. A moment to decide which direction she would
go. She chose to lightly slap the girl on the arm and say ‘Hey, let’s just go for it’
and the lonely student, the teacher and my friend did the routine together
and had fun. That was all it took.
It’s a simple moment in which you decide to be kind, to be loving, to be forgiving.
It’s that moment when you know you are creating your character and you
create it. Then you smile at yourself for doing the good thing and look for
the next moment with joy.
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