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Day 18 – Heart Emerging

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Day 18 Heart by Mary Gow

Day 18 Heart by Mary Gow

Quickly, spontaneously, I grabbed some items to place on a scanner to compose this piece: 1) an angel a dear friend and former neighbor gave me; 2) three fake flowers I bought to wear in my hair a la Frida Kahlo, and 3) a scarf another dear friend gave me.

Getting back to my love of photograms and scanograms this process takes me out of my head to a space that’s timeless.

I placed these items on the scanner bed, arranged them, then scanned them.

Then I played with it in PhotoShop.

This process reminds me how well I can do when I don’t think too much and instead act on intuition.

Day 18 is an intuitive heart, I call “Heart Emerging.”

“Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.” – Florence Scovel Shinn

Day 17 Aeolian Heart

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Day 17 Heart by Mary Gow

Day 17 Heart by Mary Gow

Back when the iPhone 4S was “the thing” I went to a social gathering of some creative friends of mine in my neighborhood at that time in San Francisco.

At the end of the gathering the host asked each of us to share one tip about something we’ve discovered.

One person demonstrated the Aeolian Harp App on his iPhone.

As soon as I got home I bought the app for $1.99.

Now a decade later, Aeolian Harp is still available, and getting favorable reviews!

From their website:

“Make music while you draw. It was developed by Uwe Oestermeier available for iPhone or iPad.

User defined parameter and color schemes can be used to explore the manifoldness of the underlying particle system.

The compass can be used to locate the following instruments in the four directions of the winds: Balalaika, Celtic Harp, Guitar, Gamelan, Guzheng, Kalimba, Koto, Marimba, Orchestral Harp, and Sitar. Each of these instruments can be assigned to a compass direction with a double tap on a cardinal point.”

Fill your heart with your own art and music.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aeolian-harp/id374133120

Day 17’s Heart is created with Aeolian Harp plus some Photoshop editing.

Day 16 – Heart Waves

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Day 16-Heart by Mary Gow

Day 16-Heart by Mary Gow

Over a decade ago a book came out that I found very helpful in methods of communicating with others, Dr. Gary Chapman’s Five Languages of Love. Since 2007 his book has been on the New York Times Best Seller’s List.

Wow, what is it about this book that resonates with so many people?

Today’s heart is about riding the waves of life. Becoming a surfer. We all have to become surfers to some extent or another.

Figure out a method to help ride them, a guide for how to communicate in the different styles or “languages” of love.

Today’s heart is about riding the waves of love, weathering storms, to arrive on the shore again — maybe the same shore, but with fresh eyes. And some new vocabulary words.

Find out more about Chapman’s Five Languages approach is at his website: https://www.5lovelanguages.com/5-love-languages/

Day 15 – Heart of a Woman

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Day 15 Heart by Mary Gow

Day 15 Heart by Mary Gow


I wrote this poem after hearing poetry, powerful poetry . . . the kind that makes me feel like I can change my DNA.

Heart of a Woman

Many hearts many minds
There is no other time
Like this moment
That makes demands on
the Heart of a Woman

Smart softness
Mental toughness
Emotional intelligence
Resilience

Hearts bound by
Time and sound
Joy and hope
Queens of Cope

We women are
Champions of
Sense-Around

-by Mary Gow