Drawn by a Star

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sculpture by cathyrose.com “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” T.S. Eliot. "Sólo aquellos que se arriesgan a ir demasiado lejos pueden saber hasta dónde se puede ir." T.S. Eliot. "Seuls ceux qui prennent le risque d'aller trop loin peut éventuellement savoir jusqu'où on peut aller." T.S. Eliot. "Только те, кто рискнет зайти слишком далеко может возможно выяснить, как далеко можно идти." T.S. Элиот.   'Wind' by Cathy Rose. Click on photo to see larger version.  

Feliz Navidad de Alcazar, Andalucia,  Spain No water in the  village for the last 48 hours.  Not complaining, just adjusting! Crystals.  During a crystal healing  workshop on Saturday in the Lecrin Valley, surrounded by orange trees... Crystal Cave in Paraguay.  a   young psychic woman started telling me 'things' about my connection to disadvantaged children in the third world, especially in Peru and Bolivia. As she talked about my passion for these little beings,  tears streamed down my face.  I don't know why I'm feeling so tearful I told her. I honestly didn't.  Suddenly my  whole body was filled with a gripping pain. 'You love them s o much  because they're like  your own children, ' she said.   'Yes...'  I replied slowly.  As I lay on a makeshift bed of deep blue pillows, Emma intuitively placed the quartz, fluorite and amethyst ...

    Kids are at Home, with Parents, in Bolivian Prisons   themoderatevoice.com                                        After a month of trying to contact Bolivian Ramiro Llanos, prison  director of San Pedro prison  in La Paz, this morning I heard  via the prison dentist, that the prison authorities will be delighted for us to send Christmas present art packs and balloons  for  the 160 children who live in this  prison with their dads.   Christmas in prison?? In Bolivia it's  common for children to live in prisons with their incarcerated parent.  This will happen if there isn't anybody else to look after them.  How can this happen? Mothers may also  be in pris...

Three weeks ago I drove  my 18 year old car over 1000 kms  to the tiny village of Farrera in the Spanish Pyrenees, to try to paint my way back into writing my screenplay. My destination was  El Centre d’Art i Natura,  'a  truly inspiring  place for artists and researchers from all over the world.'  It's situated at an altitude of 1,360 m in the heart of the Catalan Pyrenees, 250 km from Barcelona and not far from Andorra.   The village  benefits from - the website says-  an exceptionally  peaceful setting, ideally suited to reflection, inspiration and creative work. I knew this  to be true.  My last visit was  eight years ago. By the first weekend, what happened, to my great surprise,  was that I  let my screenplay go.  I said a swift silent  goodbye  to four years  work, and ...

So here I am back again in Farrera, a tiny village with 22 inhabitants in the Spanish Pyrenees, two and a half days drive from where I live in Andalucia. My last residency here was eight years ago. Farrera is a magical place where artists, writers, musicians and scientists come to live together- merge- and work on their individual projects related to mountains. Some stay for a month. I'm here for two weeks. My project is to paint my way back into my screenplay, which is set in Patagonia and Bolivia. My companions at Farrera this week have been two young women. One has inspired me greatly with her project to record the sounds of the village and surrounding valleys. I never noticed how sweet the sound of gentle rain is, nor how exciting the sound of footsteps on uneven terrain. Odile has also introduced me the work of two film makers ( animators) whose work I find fascinating. I'll post the info below. Last year, after eighteen months working on the sc...