tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84974874542354072872024-02-06T23:35:25.269-08:00Umber DoveArt filled Life :: Life filled ArtUmberDovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15897533875971637080noreply@blogger.comBlogger555125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497487454235407287.post-73372415259868944922013-06-14T12:43:00.002-07:002013-06-14T12:43:42.305-07:00Notes <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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You really light my fire, do you know that?</div>
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I'm endlessly awed by your support and I will never, ever tire of telling you so. </div>
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Thank you.</div>
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THANK you.</div>
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Thank YOU.</div>
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You keep my spirits ever encouraged, you keep food on our table, you remind me that this life path is exactly where I want to be, you make possible this life that we're cultivating.</div>
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I appreciate you with the whole of my heart and soul! And I really, truly want you to know it!</div>
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On a business note:</div>
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There are some big shifts happening here! The blog will be shut down for a period of time this weekend as we make the BIG switch to the all new (and if I say so myself, GORGEOUS) UmberDove website! It's been such a long time coming and I can't wait to reveal it to you. Big things friends, big things. To make it easy, you will always find me at www.umberdove.com, and I appreciate your patience as we fiddle with the technical stuff this weekend!</div>
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In summary:</div>
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You're great. </div>
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I'll see you next week!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;">For the last year I've had so many lovely friends request another pack of postcards for the etsy shop - and for about as long, I've been jonesing to create one! </span></div>
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We all love. We love puppy tails, peonies, sherbet colored sunsets, that first hot beverage of the day, the feel of a cool breeze when the day is warm. We love our chosen families, the friends who meet us for dinner, the people who inspire, the ones who shower us with love. I have no doubt that every single one of us loves, and loves in spades. But every now and then, love is tricky. We forget to turn that shining beacon of love we project to our favorites upon our selves. Self-love takes intention, and in my life, continual reminding that I am worthy of love, worthy of <b>my</b> kindness, <b>my</b> gentleness, <b>my own</b> unconditional love. It's a practice new every day, and just in case you are practicing too, I made these rings. </div>
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The tallest domes of rose quartz you ever did see, luminous, vibrant, and rising up high. Stacks of sterling silver swirling and flowing out, up the arm, straight up to your own heart. She's light but you'll know she's there, delicate, but substantial enough to pack a love-filled punch. As I worked on these, I filled my heart with so much love for the fingers who will wear them and soldered in little prayers that they remember to love themselves whole.</div>
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(you can find both the postcard packs and the agape rings in <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/UmberDoveStudios?ref=si_shop">the shop right here</a>!)</div>
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I wish you a cheery Tuesday birds!</div>
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I live in the city. Sometimes, like this morning, this still strikes me as an oddity. I wish he wasn't at work as my coffee for one feels lonely. Simultaneously solitary and yet enough as I pad around the property scuffling under the juniper and squatting in the dewy grass. This morning there was a single vertebrae left atop eight month old detritus I've yet to clear in the name of "forest compost." I'll add it to the collection because clearly the crows left it for me to find. </div>
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First there are take out breakfast burritos and drive-through coffee. The glare of sun on the lake and consequent wall of cloud cover. It's never the temperature I expect. We tromp, they gallop, I whistle, we talk. Everything is so green, the chroma bursts and makes me heady. There is such an art to joint dreaming but somedays it comes easier than others. Today, as we pick out properties, discussing important details such as where the studio with its conjoined solarium will sit, I know it's one of the easy ones. </div>
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Is it common to stride through life unaware of the exact weight we carry in stress until it leaves? I hold my breath awaiting medical results - as though the act of testing itself makes real the possibility of illness. But for the first time in three years, the weight was matched by a single beacon of belief in health. After all, I'm learning. After all, I'm restructuring each level of my being towards wholeness. After all, I believe my work here is barely begun.</div>
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And after all that, the results came back. Utterly, perfectly healthy.</div>
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Sometimes I hold an image for a long, long time. Sometimes it just needs to gestate, sometimes I'm waiting to see more, sometimes it's just too much and I find the excuses to stall. Three years is a long time and this moves straight past all my comfortable barriers into the realm of unknown possibility. Now it's begun.</div>
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It may be finished in a week's time, it may be finished in three months. I'm not rushing it. But around here, it will be referred to as "the painting Hummingbird blessed:"</div>
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Sketching with a long brush, details of gesture, details of the red-tail, details that will come. I step close to work, I stand back to view, maybe five feet, eyes squinted. At that distance, the hummingbird flew down between my physical self and painted self. It hovered inches from the painting, back and forth between the face and the hawk, rose up, nearly landing on the top edge of canvas. It turned to face me, lowering its busy body to the center of the canvas and hovered. For a long second it just buzzed there midair, looking at me, looking at it. And then with a zip and that flash of iridescence, it was gone.</div>
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UmberDovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920126905837786943noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497487454235407287.post-82169397918895601802013-05-29T10:38:00.000-07:002013-05-29T10:38:04.005-07:00True Center eCourse: We Have Our Winners!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Before I say another word, I want to thank you.</div>
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As I always do, I read each and every comment with great relish, with growing excitement, and was yet again swept over with how amazing this community is. Your support, your belief, your kindred hearts always bolster my love for humanity and encourage the work of my soul.</div>
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So thank you.</div>
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Know that I mean it from the whole of my heart and the depth of my soul.</div>
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Here's the truth: when I first woke this morning, I immediately felt the giddy thrill of wondering who the True Center scholarship winners would be. And as I know you'll want to know too, I'll jump right to it. With a prayer and the randomness of the draw, I pulled two names:</div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">Jaccalyn (of the fingers crossed)</span></i></b></div>
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LADIES, I'm so thrilled to have you join me! Please send me your email addresses and I'll get you set!!</div>
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Again, I'm so grateful to each and every one who took the time to enter, who shared, who will join me in this course, and who is just here believing. YOU are the bees knees.</div>
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REGISTRATION IS OPEN!!</div>
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You can now officially sign up for the <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/152535076/true-center-ecourse-summer-session?ref=shop_home_active">True Center eCourse right HERE</a>!</div>
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It's going to be beautiful. </div>
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I can't wait to begin with you and all the brilliance I know you'll bring!</div>
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In all love and belief in the work of your hands, heart and soul,</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As in heart-pounding, breathless, giddy, just-peeded-a-little excited.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For a handful of years I've felt the tug to teach, to share my experiences, processes, and successes (and not so). I adore creating, I love story telling. I believe that the making of my personal art is the first half of its life (albiet <b>the only</b> half I need to find fulfillment in the making): the second half is completed when another person sees that art and it speaks to them, reveals meaning to them, reminds them of their importance, their beliefs, their own life experience. THAT is my favorite facet of art; the connection, the sharing, the inspiring that in turns inspires others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All of this in mind, about a year ago I decided to answer the [growing louder and louder] call to craft a course that could be offered across the globe to all kindred spirits. I've spent months building content, documenting the things that I do to garner and gather inspiration, the ways I translate those ideas into tangible forms, and preparing it in this offering to you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And so I present, with the sticky thrill of exhilaration,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">- The Offering -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">True Center is an eCourse focused on the concentrated cultivation of <strong>your</strong> artistic life. Over these six weeks we'll join to establish, develop, and grow the creative practices that open the flood gates of inspiration. We'll talk about where ideas spark and how to open our hearts and minds to receiving more of them. We'll talk about what it takes to move from vague concept to raw form to polished piece in <strong>your</strong> medium of choice. We'll break boxes, expand boundaries, and fearlessly step into the fullness of your unique potential as a creative being. This course is a safe place for experimentation. for taking leaps into the uncharted waters of your personal well of inspiration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is not a course to teach you how to make a pretty painting, to snap the perfect photograph, or to create the loveliest piece of jewelry - although we'll talk about all those concepts and more. This is a class crafted around unlocking your True Center, working with the deep beauty you already hold inside, taking what lights you up and sets your soul ablaze, and then learning to create from that authentic and inspired place. This is a course for those willing to delve into soulwork, to use their utterly individual experience as a glorious human being to inform their art. This is a course for those who want to add depth, intention, meaning and story to the work of their hands. This is a course for finding your True Center.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Through the True Center eCourse you will receive:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- Six weeks of concentrated instruction in a private virtual classroom. Each week will hold new themes, vibrant lesson posts, videos, assignments, journaling and projects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- Two LIVE group Question and Answer sessions to address the <strong>your</strong> questions on art, making, technical skill, broad concepts, and what ever else comes up!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- Entrance into our "secret" FaceBook group, a place to share inspirations, artistic breakthroughs (and the plateaus that always come before), build like-minded community and find support in this path of life and artistry as one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">- The Other Details -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- <b>The True Center Summer Session will open on Monday June 24th and run for six full weeks, with instruction ending on Friday August 2nd</b>. All content will remain available for an additional six weeks to ensure plenty of time for completion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- Registration for the True Center Summer Session course is $99; sign-ups officially going live on Wednesday May 29. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- This is an OPEN MEDIUM course. What does that mean you ask? The True Center eCourse is designed to meet you where you are, in the medium in which you love. Much of the assignments and projects we'll do will take place in our sketchbooks and journals in order to develop the resource tools to inform your personal artwork. We will discuss moving ideas, from the thought phase, through various mediums and how to interpret inspiration across the mediums you prefer to work with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- The FaceBook group is optional, and in no way a requirement for taking the course. I strongly believe that we must be true to that which feeds us, supports us, lifts us up in order to boldly create art; for some a high integrity community is a vital part of this process. Either way, know that I believe in the decisions you make.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>I'M GIVING AWAY TWO SCHOLARSHIPS!</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232323;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 25.59375px;">In the joy and excitement of this offering, it is my glee to gift two people with a scholarship to the True Center eCourse. All you need to do is leave me a comment here, on this blog post, with the words "TRUE CENTER" somewhere in the comment! It's that easy! </span></span></div>
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UmberDovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920126905837786943noreply@blogger.com107tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497487454235407287.post-16268630647396492242013-05-20T10:45:00.000-07:002013-05-20T10:45:50.987-07:00Ancestral Mythology, Vol 1.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is a story of the People.</div>
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Long, long ago when the earth was still bright eyed and the People did not yet know Her fullness, the sun shone harsh and baked the soil. For weeks the People stood with parched tongues at the valley edge, watching the storm clouds high above the mountain range. High, higher than anyone had dared climb, so high their eyes watered and wept, so high the trees sighed and released their leaves. In the valley the grasses withered and the children cried out for the hunger in their bellies. The women huddled and in hushed tones wondered where to lead their tribe. </div>
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The eldest woman cried out "Deer Mother, Deer Mother, how do we save our babies? Where will we lead our men?" And so Deer ran down from the trees and walked among the People, noting their empty baskets and innocent hearts. She looked to the high mountains, flowering and lush.</div>
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"You must travel North," Deer said, "You must follow the rain for in its path the land springs green eternal.</div>
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"But we can not climb so high" lamented the People. "Our feet are too broad for the narrow trails, our toes too tender for the shale. Our legs are not strong enough for those steep sides and we shall surely fall to our death."</div>
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"Climb," she said, dropping to her knees. "Climb and I will carry you." And so the People clambered upon her back, the young, the old, the men, the women. She carried them high, higher than any had ever traveled before, so high that when the People turned they saw the whole of the Earth stretched out before them and their eyes were opened to Her fullness. Deer carried them until the air was scented with the tang of damp loam and the grasses grew thick and dark. The People slid off her back, kissed her neck, and ate their fill.</div>
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And that child, is how we became a People of the Deer.</div>
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<i><b>Ancestral Mythology: People of the Deer</b></i></div>
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UmberDovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920126905837786943noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497487454235407287.post-89338003161316786172013-05-17T10:54:00.000-07:002013-05-17T10:54:57.588-07:00Sketchbook Writings<div style="text-align: center;">
<b style="background-color: #eff7ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;"><i>~ From my sketchbook writings, May 17th 2013 ~</i></b></div>
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Here is what I love about the sea, the Sound, the great swirl of salt and heaving life. Here is the outpouring, unlocking, loosening of the throat, the bone striping wind, the olfactory discord of decay and bloom, the bewitching mortality of it all.</div>
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I can love her tender, I can rage tempestuous, I can gather her bits of stone and shell, I can throw them back with unnecessary force. She is not gentle, she is not kind. Do not be fooled by fairy tales and sweet song. But she is whole. Birth and life and death incarnat.</div>
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Whenever I visit these so-called grey beaches of the northern pacific, all I see is color. The subtle layering of mountain ranges shrouded in a watery reflection of sky and sea, the luminosity of big leaf maples in juvenile foliage - a glow that only comes with the mist. The warm hues of slick driftwood, the iridescent flash of crows and the hot punch of red-winged blackbirds. And then of course, the stones. <br />
If you but call out a color, say, Mustard! then suddenly they appear as speckled pockets of glowing chroma. Coral! and the beach comes alive with vermillion hues. Teal! and my hand becomes greedy, my thighs gritty with sand as I wipe down stone after stone. <br />
I am the magpie.<br />
I am the wandering gypsy with pockets full of treasure.<br />
Whisper me a salty tale and I'll share with you my trove.<br />
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UmberDovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920126905837786943noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497487454235407287.post-5967000121207101532013-05-09T10:53:00.003-07:002013-05-09T10:53:44.898-07:00Unabashed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today: I am filled with the kindess of strangers and the warmth of feeling known by the closest of confidants. My hair is still in knots from last night's sunset driving with all the windows down and Neko Case is stuck on repeat in my head. I feel a tenderness towards humanity that is too often reserved for the trees. I feel fiercely determined, I feel the stirring to create, I feel the apprehension of upcoming appointments that place a time stamp on the future. My feet already hold a sharp flip-flop tan and I'm giddy to see the snap peas are blooming. I'm dusting off words that have been left idle by the roadside. I am a daughter of the earth, I am on time for my life.</div>
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Good God of 85 Degree Temps.<br />
Holla.<br />
And welcome.<br />
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How was your weekend? I managed to flash my thighs in the sunshine whilst day drinking and veggie planting... oh the holy trifecta of Summer living. When you hold such a watery heart and a coastal soul, it's easy to forget how utterly delicious this weather can be. On today's menu? Lilac plucking and toe painting. After the work day of course. Or maybe smack in the middle. It's a physical hardship for me to stay inside. I know, I know, this LIFE! Whee!<br />
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I've been thinking much lately on trying to pull all of my body, all of my mind into the physical place I stand on the earth. Blame it on a wanderer's spirit, a gypsy heritage or past lives, but I find myself all too often residing in one place while my heart wanders the hillsides of another. I thirst for salt air, for snow caps, for warm oak leaves, for hawk cries, for sisters who laugh, for lonely roads, and for languid meals. It's something like wanderlust, but deeper, a searching for the fertile soil of roots that run deep, and slivers of earth that cradle my form. Days like this make it easy to dig fully into the place I stand, so I take them, gulp them down greedily, and fill myself up with their contentment. I walk barefoot and run my hands along the trees. On others my feet twitch and I crave the sight of every new thing, the experience of every fresh locale, but deeper still I crave the foundation of home.<br />
As ever, I am a dichotomy.<br />
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The wind whistles too sweetly through this old house, and I need to check in on the cucumbers. Or something like that. <br />
Here's me, wishing you lollypops and unicorns!<br />
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UmberDovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920126905837786943noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497487454235407287.post-2736811135671729602013-05-02T13:04:00.003-07:002013-05-02T13:04:39.705-07:00Salt Air<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I don't know if this is true of other oceans,<br />
Of warmer shores or bluer waters,<br />
But when I breath in the mist of Mamma Pacific,<br />
Time no longer matters.<br />
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UmberDovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920126905837786943noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497487454235407287.post-83369430830283273512013-04-24T11:04:00.000-07:002013-04-24T11:04:42.019-07:00A Ring for Abundance<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><b>Know Thyself: A Ring for Abundance</b></i></div>
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<i>(sterling silver and raw citrine)</i></div>
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A <a href="http://www.umberdove.com/2013/03/know-thyself.html">while back</a> I made a couple rings in this vein of thought with natural amethyst clusters; earthy, deep and raw. Since then, the design (and intentions behind it) have danced around the back of my mind, telling me that I was no where near done with this concept. And so I sourced a gorgeous hunk of citrine, natural (unheated, untreated, as much on the market is) and bursting with magic. Every little crystalline point sparkles in the sunlight, singing a song of abundance. You know, the type wherein the heart brims, the hands overflow, and the whole earth bursts into song? That's the kind of abundance I'm talking about here.</div>
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And I tell you true, it feels good.</div>
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Happy Wednesday you beauties! I hope your vitamin d meters are spinning off the charts!</div>
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(p.s. That bundle of citrine abundance is <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/UmberDoveStudios?ref=si_shop">in the shop</a> now!)</div>
UmberDovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920126905837786943noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497487454235407287.post-10849168873111612122013-04-22T13:42:00.000-07:002013-04-22T13:42:01.806-07:00Rain Dance<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Some days, some weeks, all my work happens on the inside. I don't use many words, I don't take many photos. My skin rests, my hair stays pulled back. From the outside not much seems to bloom. But inside, the good work is sprouting.</div>
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Earlier this weekend I talked with a good friend about the concept of artistic fullness. There is much written about the "well of creativity" and the continual need to fill and fill to brimming. I think about my internal source not so much as a well, with it's straight sides and uniform depth, but as a vernal pool, a natural feature on the undulating landscape of living. When the seasons shift, the waters rise and the whole of the pool teams with life scurrying under the surface. The sun rises, the sun sets, and slowly the waters pull in towards the center, leaving a ring of vibrant flora. This outer ring gives way to the next burst of color, giving way to the next, until a cross section of beauty is radiating out, deep and lush, left behind by the receding water. The rich liquid of life itself is reduced to a small pool, still bountiful, still fertile, still carrying seeds and life and the minutia of creation, yet condensed and calling out for rain.</div>
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And so I do a rain dance.</div>
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UmberDovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920126905837786943noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497487454235407287.post-66971236541238250882013-04-15T13:56:00.001-07:002013-04-15T13:56:09.391-07:00Renewal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><b>Epoch Ring</b></i></div>
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<i>(sterling silver and adventurine)</i></div>
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A few years ago I was sick, wracked with everything western medicine could do to stop cellular mutation. One day I read a short snippet, surely in one of the trillion pamphlets and packets the doctors have given me, that simply read: "In one year's time, the body will replace, turn over, and regenerate up to 85% of it's cells." </div>
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I could picture it like some sort of virtual, interactive map: cells blinking and lighting up throughout my body. New cells, scrubbed clean, bright and shining, springing up at every second. Of course they carried the imprint of history, the story of their elder cells, the ancestral burden of trauma, but they were NEW. And they were HEALTHY. And I hung onto that image like a lifeline. One year, I told myself, and I will experience a new beginning, a rebirth of organic nature. One year, and I'll know I'm filled with baby fresh cells and a new era will begin.</div>
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A short while back I made a ring, quite similar to this one, for myself; a modern, abstract image of those cells bursting with new, rich life. It was my reminder of the 85%, of the one year's time. When I created it, I intended to make several for the shop, but it felt too private, too secret to share, intimate in the way that abstraction can make one feel as though they're standing in their skivvies in front of the school. And then this last weekend I felt the fire to make one for you and share the story here. And that's the kind of fire I'll never ignore.</div>
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Happy Renewal Friends!</div>
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Merry Spring!</div>
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Get out there and let the sunlight kiss your cheek!</div>
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(the Epoch ring is heading to <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/UmberDoveStudios?ref=si_shop">the shop</a> right now)</div>
UmberDovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920126905837786943noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497487454235407287.post-64329389399052869522013-04-04T16:14:00.000-07:002013-04-04T16:14:02.545-07:00The Joy of Tropism<div style="text-align: center;">
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The Joy of Tropism<br />
(sterling silver and prehnite)<br />
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Arc, twirl, swell, unfurl, curve, burst,<br />
All you green things,<br />
All you growing things,<br />
Spring is coming into her glory,<br />
Raise your heads and stretch toward the light.<br />
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Sometimes I just need to make something for the pure joy of being alive. For the thrill of waking up, peering out the windows, and saying "it's going to be a gorgeous day." That's what this little bauble is full of: the joy of just being alive. Of growing upward and onward in both rain and shine. Of being that green thing that wriggles and turns its face up. Of happiness. Of cherry blossoms. Of the first wee threads of chartreuse popping up through the garden soil. Of sunshine of the soul.<br />
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(if you need that little punch of delight in your life, she's heading to <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/UmberDoveStudios?ref=si_shop">the shop now</a>)<br />
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Have a gorgeous day you chickadees!</div>
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Officially.<br />
Best.<br />
Hike.<br />
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UmberDovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920126905837786943noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497487454235407287.post-69366118426982384712013-03-25T11:30:00.000-07:002013-03-25T11:30:23.537-07:00On Practices and Stardust<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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How was your weekend? Friday morning I woke early, in the pale blue dawn, to snowfall gently piling on the boxwoods. I sat with Sancho and a steaming mug of tea on the sofa and wrote by that watery light for well over an hour. Journaling is a funny business: truly it is a practice that can slip by, undone, for weeks at a time. And when I crease open the pages again, I find my words come haltingly. I over think, I under write. I spew out hurt and am surprised (once again) that I allowed myself to hold space for it. "Get it out on the page" I tell myself, "expel, expel." For truly I desire to create a life brimming with whole love and encompassing beauty in all emotional states. I desire to see the best in me, the best in others, the best in humanity. And that too, is a practice.<br />
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Sunday afternoon the sun pressed apart the clouds and every green thing arched toward the light. I consider myself a rather green thing, and thusly, followed suite. In the earlier weekend snow and wind, the cedar out front had dropped handfulls of bright new growth across the yard. I gathered them up, tucked myself into the moss and grass out back, and wrapped a handful of mini smudge bundles. Over the past couple years, smudging has become a practice near and dear my heart. Every day, when I step into the studio, before I pull out silver and stone, I light a bundle. I breath in that smoke, I envision it cleansing the stick and grit of life, I cleanse my tools, my room, the four corners, and I breath out intention. Intention that the work of my hands be honest and true, that it speak the language of earth and spirit, of love and healing, that each piece find it's right human and bring a strong dose of joy. And so, it is.<br />
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<i><b>To Stardust</b></i><br />
<i>(earrings: two in sterling silver, three in sterling and brass)</i><br />
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A cosmic collection of astral passages, the trace of galactic history made tangible in tidy, lobe-sized memorandum.<br />
Circling around so many of these thoughts (the inherent good of [wo]mankind, the desire to burn bright, the interconnectivity of life and work and practice and intention), I created this small collection of earrings. They're lofty and uplifting, swinging comet tails to help raise your chin a little higher, glowing and weathered, just like each one of us. Some in solid sterling, some in sterling and brass, but each one unique, hammer-formed into arching three-dimensional curves. I kept a pair for myself, because you <i>know</i> I need me a lift to the stars too.<br />
(you can find the whole collection in <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/UmberDoveStudios?ref=seller_info">the shop</a> now!)<br />
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Be well today you little starlettes!<br />
The day is too glorious to ignore, so the pups and I are off to heed her siren's call and wander a mountainside.<br />
It's good to be back.<br />
~ U ~</div>
UmberDovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920126905837786943noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497487454235407287.post-41709674000800993642013-03-14T12:20:00.001-07:002013-03-14T12:20:28.775-07:00Fecundity<div style="text-align: center;">
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<i><b>Fecundity</b></i><br />
<i>(18" x 24" acrylic on canvas)</i><br />
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There is more to fecundity than simply reproduction, the nuclear spark of two cells cosmically colliding. This is about procreation, the birthing of tender green ideas, the fertility of a mind rich with seeds of imagination, the miracle of thought joining forces with action. This is the act of making. This is the divinely orchestrated path of sowing concepts, that they burst into life at the first light of day. This is the patience of voluntary gestation and the release of the chimera. This is the art of fecundity.<br />
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I'm off to ready myself for the opening at Ghost Gallery! I wish you could all be there; I'd raise a glass to each and every one of you, even at the risk of tottering over in my heels, giddy with champagne.<br />
It feels good to know the paintings are hung. It felt glorious to deliver them yesterday. And it will fill my heart to bursting to see them tonight.<br />
Cheers!<br />
~ Umber ~</div>
UmberDovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920126905837786943noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497487454235407287.post-46958387812533993282013-03-09T10:38:00.000-08:002013-03-09T10:38:04.087-08:00Saturday Morning<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We stayed up late playing cards and polishing off wine bottles. Now it's mid-morning and I'm still chewing on toast and sumo mandrines, with some incredible bed head, a second cup of joe, and the warmth of a full extroversion tank.</div>
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UmberDovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920126905837786943noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497487454235407287.post-52585068465340383972013-03-08T10:24:00.002-08:002013-03-08T10:25:17.344-08:00Know Thyself<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sometimes an idea tumbles around, gaining speed, picking up subtleties, for weeks. Then one morning I wake and know exactly what it was meant to look like the entire time.</div>
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I'm talking about the good like work of mustering courage to look deep inside, and the love to make peace with what you find. While I've not talked directly about it much in the public forum, this chapter in my life has been much dedicated to healing. What started with physical healing, and lead into nutritional healing, has now rounded the curve toward emotional and spiritual work. I'm spending more time (and financial resources) on ME than ever before and I tell you true: it does take an immense amount of courage. But it also takes peace and gentleness towards self in great doses, and for me, that is the greater challenge. I've had courage and confidence; they've always been my allies (I chalk it up to the belief that I must have been an Amazon warrioress in a past life), but gentleness and deep self love are learned traits. And I'm working on it.</div>
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<b><i>Know Thyself Rings</i></b></div>
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<i>(sterling silver and raw amethyst)</i></div>
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A few months back when I began researching the symbolism of stones, I began collection beautiful bits of amethyst. Raw points, hunks of rough, polished cabs, they all speak to me of peace. Of gentleness, of the strength that is born of loving-kindness. Then, yesterday when I woke, the vision of how I wanted to begin this work in silver appeared so clear in my mind, I could have reach up and plucked it down. So I warmed up the studio, made a chemex of coffee, shamefully put off all emails and correspondence, and let the metal flow.</div>
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(both rings will be in <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/UmberDoveStudios?ref=si_shop">the shop</a> shortly!)</div>
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Have a glorious weekend all! </div>
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~ Umber ~</div>
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<i><b>Good Medicine: Feathered</b></i></div>
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<i>(watercolor on fabriano wc paper)</i></div>
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I've been speaking of "good medicine" for some time now, and it's finally coming out in watercolor. Mind if I tell you this week's story?</div>
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Monday was rough. Somedays are like that; the tired old voices of doubt and scarcity sit heavy upon the chest until a deep, full breath is near impossible to be had. The old self-care tricks seem feeble and single-note. I arrived home from banality of errands ready to write the day off, stepped out of the jeep, and into a circle of feathers ringing the cedar. The reality of death and the truth of life cycles cut through the fog. </div>
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Here was something sacred: </div>
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One life in exchange for another. I hoped it was my peregrine, grown into adulthood. I gathered the feathers with ruddy, freezing fingers, that no part should go to waste. I preened through them, noting small color variations, laying out a wing's worth of flight feathers. And in that gift, I re-found my light.</div>
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Sometimes Good Medicine is straight-forward; a gift arrives in the midst of shadow and brings back the light. But more often I find the process subtle, requiring our open minds, receptive hearts and disciplined spirit. Sometimes good medicine is held within historical symbolism, in a stone that offers luck and protection, in a leaf that heals the heart, in a creature that teaches us to use our voice. There is magic in belief, but just as much magic in intention and self-written mantras. When I go nestering, when I gather those natural homes on mantles and arrange them on walls, I think of them as tiny vessels of safety, of warmth and comfort, as places to gestate ideas and plans, as home, a concept this nomadic spirit craves deeply. Thinking of them this way brings me comfort and joy; indeed they are good medicine for my soul. </div>
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One day I as I wore flicker feathers in my hair (ok, that's most days), I was stopped by a silver haired woman who nodded as she spoke: "Flicker feathers, from the flicker who carries our prayers to the heavens." And now, every time I pin them into my curls I think of her words and give whisper to a tiny prayer for the day. To me it matters less whether those prayers are actually reaching heaven with a winged creature; it is all in the reminder to pray, to breath out deep hopes and beautiful intentions, because that creates the state in which I wish to walk through my days. </div>
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And to me, that is Good Medicine.</div>
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As a final note, I've been remiss! This watercolor, plus the few other I've shown here and on my Flickr (hehe) page are destined for my upcoming show at Ghost Gallery here in Seattle! The show opens with the art walk on March 14 which means I need to keep those brushes busy! For all you locals, I'll keep you posted with the details shortly. Until then, the studio calls and I shall answer.</div>
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~ Umber ~</div>
UmberDovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920126905837786943noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497487454235407287.post-26137091602686633052013-02-27T13:40:00.001-08:002013-02-27T13:40:20.925-08:00To Stride over Hill and Dell<div style="text-align: center;">
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To stride over hill and dell</div>
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To scoop up these small facets of light,</div>
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refracted by the holly, broken by the western squall.</div>
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My fingernails are ever gritty with the marks of the land,<br />
the discards of crows and<br />
the vain attempts of snatching scent from the loam.</div>
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But if I've learned one thing, </div>
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it's that there is no "too old" for squatting in the detritus, sifting for story.</div>
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For when I rise, they dip their heads in conspiratorial agreement,</div>
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For the crows and I, we sing in bones.</div>
UmberDovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920126905837786943noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497487454235407287.post-67992762449362690302013-02-21T15:07:00.001-08:002013-02-21T15:07:17.105-08:00Lunch Date<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Because sometimes, out is better than in.</div>
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Until you come home to these goobers of course.</div>
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What warming, delicious, solitary or chatterbox thing have you done today? I have a friend arriving shortly and while the whole house could use a solid dusting, I think I might slip into the studio for a spell before she arrives. I know she'll understand.</div>
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~ U ~</div>
UmberDovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920126905837786943noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497487454235407287.post-62990410101742633182013-02-19T14:31:00.000-08:002013-02-19T14:31:54.219-08:00And then there was that whole week I missed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I seem to have absolutely missed an entire week down the rabbit hole of my studio (it's like tumbling head over heels through a cabinet of curiosities wherein one might trip over goose wings and catch a swiftly falling cup of coffee followed by a tiny creamer pot spilling it's wares through space). What this really means is that one, I've been tucked into creativity, and two, I've really missed you!</div>
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There has been the delicate swirl of water on heavy paper, the buttery carving of stamps (and smacking them everywhere, oh! The joy!), the official end of nestering season and the documenting of gifts. </div>
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[There is much more to say on these, but it will have to wait for a later post] </div>
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There has been holy communion with kindred sisters, sometimes over wine, sometimes over cacoa, sometimes a roaring fireplace, sometimes over the beating of drums.</div>
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There has been chiming owls, misty skies, black high heels and mud boots, plus a smattering of self-generosity - new house plants included.</div>
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And of course, there has been smithing. I'm calling them Hathor Rings: Luck Amulets for she of a fertile mind and heart, a collection of American turquoise and itsy-bitsy feathers, each drawn and sawn with a rhythmic humming, each one created with prayers of luck and joy breathed into its very fabrication.</div>
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(heading into the <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/umberdovestudios">shop</a> momentarily...)</div>
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It's always so good to be back.</div>
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Big Love my Friends,</div>
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~ Umber ~</div>
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