This past week has brought many surprises and wonderful moments, and not all of them were happening in the Woods. One of the original followers of my little blog space is a wonderful artist in Australia, named Arna Baartz. At first, I thought she was only a poet, as I would see these beautiful poems come into my feed with amazing pictures. It took me awhile to figure out she is the artist of these amazing works of art.
Lo and behold, Arna Baartz sent me a gift in the mail, a beautiful painting. A painting that sums up this next years adventures in Love and the Forest for me. This piece of art has a story. It came in a wet plastic bag, with a note from the postal service that it had been damaged in transit.
I open the bag up, and the cardboard inside is soaking wet. I slowly remove the cardboard from the painting, careful to not let anything smear around. Other then a miniscule amount of bleeding in one corner, this original artwork was fine. I carefully dried it for a minutes in my herb dehydrator, then removed it to finish air drying. Then, when it was dried, my Husband pressed it under a heavy jewelry making tool used in metalcraft.
Basically, this painting should NOT have survived this journey, and this process, but it is fine, as if nothing has ever touched it. Beautiful, beautiful. The painting had a journey of its own before reaching me, and the glee in my heart was that of a little child to receive it!
What sort of LOVE allows for that to happen? What a protection, what an amazing force field of LOVE around and in the painting! What are the chances a painting can get soaked and layered between mushy cardboard, in an sealed, wet plastic bag, and STILL make it to its new home?
This painting came to me with a beautiful teaching about Love, and I’ve been wanting to share it with all of you, because I dedicate this beautiful painting to all my Family, which includes my Friends and Students, to having a wonderful year in 2014, and despite what adversity pops up, we’ll remember the teaching of a painting full of Love, how it can weather all conditions while crossing oceans.
Did I do anything to deserve the painting? No. It came upon Wings of Blessing. Do I feel loved? I do, friends everywhere. AMAZING friends everywhere.
To look at Arna Baartz’s artwork, check out her website!
http://www.artofkundalini.com/
http://silverpoetry.wordpress.com/
(c) 2014, Summer L. Farkas Takacs-Michaelson, CH
Photo protected under international copyright laws, rights belong to Artist Arna Baartz.