Susie Monday

Artist, maker, teacher, author, head cook and bottlewasher.

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The art I make is the result of a life-long love of pattern, texture and color. How I teach is a skill honed by experience (I started teaching creative arts to younger kids when I was 12). After earning a B.A. in Studio Arts from Trinity University, I helped lead an internationally recognized educational foundation, designed curriculum exhibits for schools and other institutions, wrote and edited for a major daily newspaper, opened the San Antonio Children's Museum and then, a dozen years ago, took the scary but essential (for me) leap to become a fulltime artist and art teacher.

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    Thursday
    Apr092009

    Beautiful, Bewitching. Abloom in the Hills

    DateThursday, April 9, 2009 at 03:30PM

    Happy Easter, Happy Rebirth, Happy Reminder to rebirth yourself, resurrect your hope, replenish your energy, renew your faith in all that sustains you, remember to love, cherish and honor your co-creativity with the universe.

    Matthew Fox, one of my favorite theologians and spiritual leaders puts it this way (and quotes Meister Eckhart):

    "Creating is our imitating of Divinity. We are hear to imitate Divinity. Nothing less. All of creation is generative. Why would the human species, so powerfully endowed with imagination, not also be generative. But we do not generate alone, we generate in common with with the Divine who dwells and generates within us. We tap into the work of the Creator whose power is 'unceasingly glowing and burning with all the Divine, wlth all the Divine sweetness, all the Divine bliss.'"

    Go outdoors and see what's going on under your nose. Pay attention. The world right now is a message in creative being.

    P.S. I am heading off into the non-connected sunset for a few family and friend days. See you Monday. Don't eat too many chocolate bunny heads. Sorry for all the typos. I was "touch" typing the quote and didn't check it! So much for touch typing.

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    I really enjoyed this post - and am also a fan of Matthew Fox. Do you know where this quote came from? I'd like to read "the rest of the story". Thanks.
    April 9, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterkaren viser
    The book is CREATIVITY, one of my favorites.
    April 14, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterSusie Monday
    I SO miss Pipe Creek and the Hill Country! I loved living near there and visiting. Enjoy the wildflowers.
    April 15, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterLynda Thompson

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