Saturday, June 28, 2014

on retreat

I wanted to bring SoulCollage materials with me on retreat but couldn't do so easily or restrainedly. Once here, though, I found a couple of magazines and set to tearing out images. On our last afternoon of silence, without any glue I just arranged some images on the desk and photographed them.

The card features our retreat house, three different pictures of wheat fields awaiting harvest (close-up shots of heads of grain), and a woman sitting in a field calmly looking into the distance. There's also a small boy at a desk with a pair of scissors.

"I am one who is [pretty much] at peace. I have been given the gift of a couple days of silence, and have been able to rest. I've largely avoided the temptation to try to be what I am not, and although there have been a few nerves I am feeling fairly confident: ready, prepared, accepted."

update: The arrangement I photographed turned out to be considerably larger than my other cards. I still have the original photograph in my i-pad app, but I have also used four of the six original images to make a physical SoulCollage card of the same size as my other ones.