#waters
Untitled, by Nataša Ilinčić
Thrive in the deep waters
“Life changes force us into the deep water. Death forces us into deeper waters. Call the roll of lossesin your own family. I salute both my stalwart grandmothers and both my sisters, who as widows grew to be at home in and, eventually, through grace and strength, to thrive in the deep waters. My cousin Patsy and her daughters still reel from the shock of the accident that killed husband and father Charles McGee on a balmy April evening, just before dusk. None of us can believe it yet. [My daughter] Jennifer reshapes her life as she copes with her father’s illness and death. I feel twice-widowed. I lost him to divorce. I lost him to death. My father is dead. My mother died last spring. This is drama, but this is not a play. There is no dress rehearsal. We have no script. We don’t know the lines. We have to make them up as we go. We have to perform them live, on the spot, no chance to go back and start from the top. What will we do? How will we stand? The questions haunt us as we bear the unbearable, and lead us, unbidden, often dragging our feet, to new depths—to new chaptersof life.”
—Penelope Niven,Swimming Lessons
(Photograph by John Lockwood. Thank you, Mr. Lockwood and Unsplash.)
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Waters
“I am haunted by waters. It may be that I’m too dry in myself, too English, or it may be simply that I’m susceptible to beauty, but I do not feel truly at ease on this earth unless there’s a river nearby. ‘When it hurts,’ wrote the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz, ‘we return to the banks of certain rivers,’ and I take comfort in his words, for there’s a river I’ve returned to over and again, in sickness and in health, in grief, in desolation and in joy.”
—Olivia Laing, the first paragraph of To the River
(Image: “Waters” by D. B. Abacahin)
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AS WE DROWN
Watch in horror, as dark waters menace the incorrupt corpse of Our Republic.
+OMENS+
Dark Field Monotype [Full Bleed Print]
Ink on Paper, 15 x 22
2019
~Age
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Miss July wades through a tranquil lake near sunset, trailing her fingers through the cool waters!
Had fun with the soft colors and lighting on this one. Process video forthcoming! :)
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Woke up at 5:30 AM to watch the sunrise with my friends. We watched the sun glow over Venice. You can see the silhouette of Campanile di San Marco in front of the sun One of the most peaceful mornings of my life.
Murano, Italy
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What different waters can be used for:
sea: cleansing, healing, banishing and protection
storm: spells with emotional strength, confidence, charge, motivation, force, for curses, to strenghten spells
river: spells for moving on, focusing energy, breaking rought patterns, warding, for powering tools
dew: love and fertility spells, delicate magic, fae work
snow: spells for purity, endings and change, slow working
rain: growth and rebirth, spells to gain power over time
light rain: get projects started, encouragement
medium rain: cleansing and growth
heavy rain: inspiration and banishing negativity
Art by TheArtofNickGandy on etsy
