Summer Reverie

I know.  It's been a summer and I finally emerge....just a little bit.   I stepped back and took some time to do what my soul requested.  I listened and was rewarded with reverie and new skills, and renewed connections and insights.  The last day of summer holiday looked like this, because I finally sat down and breathed in the late summer light.


Today, I discovered soul food that moved me so much I needed to share right now.  I found it on the most excellent blog, Brain Pickings.  Natalie Merchant, an enchantress to be sure, researched Victorian poets and set some of their words to music.
This is a performance she did for another most excellent web site, TED talks.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/natalie_merchant_sings_old_poems_to_life.html

She Flew on Wings of Steel

And a view of some of my new pieces that come from the work I did in Keith LoBue's Steeling Beauty workshop in Artful Gatherings.  The best on line workshop I have ever experienced.

My monogram in forged steel or The Dancing Woman