Mountain Mama (WC)

 

(Wendy Cabell, November 11, 2023, feast day of Saint Martin of Tours and Saint Marina of Omura. On Jewish calendar today is blessing of the new month, and Flood ends (2104 BC). Image from personal SoulCollage deck.)

Mountain Mama

(while before SoulCollage version of the 

“Queen of All” Icon of the Mother of God”)

nooks sprout wings where Your 

feet brush, Angels' pharmacy–-

Skyspun remedies

*From prompt: Freewrite as inspired by quotes mentioning feet. From Lisa Freedman’s BreatheReadWrite, November 11, 2023.

First Light (WC)

(Wendy Cabell, November 8, 2023, feast day of Our Lady of Bellefontaine, the Archangels, St. Elizabeth of the Trinity (last words: "I am going to Light, to Love, to Life!"), St. Cybi (son of Saint Wenna/Gwen, St. Non's sister), Bl. Placidia of Verona and Bl. John Duns Scotus ("...taught that the divine was present in every(thing)... precisely in its uniqueness" --Laura Rutland).

Image is "Umm Nur" (Muslim title for Our Lady, meaning "Mother of one who was Light") by Wendy Cabell)

First Light

Loved into being, be

Thy way of seeing. Sun's slow

seep -- In through the night

*Lines are from verses/images came during Laura Thompson's Mother of All The World Workshop, Saturdays of August 30-November 5, above painting from same, October 14, 2023. It is faceless in the tradition of Willow Tree, etc.