Yesterday I read some of my old poems, even some I’ve never written.
By Andrea Gibson Lately I’ve been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love the way I want to love, and what I need to learn to love that way, and who I need to become to become the kind of love I want t
After And while New on Substack this morning. 🤎🩶🖤 orlyavineri.substack.com
Being lazy this morning. Hey, I have the right. I’ve been working hard lately as North Americans tend to do. Filling every waking minute with ‘doing’. Being ‘productive’. Here, today. Reposting an image and words from a
Making ‘Room’ *SALE* 11 pieces - Mixed Media on wooden panels. First nine - 12x12” Last two - 8x8” DM me if you are interested, I’ll tell you more. 🤎🩶🤎
~ A Still Life ~ At times it can be as simple as painting circles, drawing popcorn, not flowers in vases, allowing spaces in between take the lead, guide, distances, teach, silences, speak.
~ Smoke gets in your eyes ~
New this morning on orlyavineri.substack.com, to read and listen is: Forgotten People  The nomads of the Negev
Images and words meet in this 4-day workshop. I’ve always kept them separate. I understand now how they belong together on the dance floor of expression: Raw, honest, energetic, and transcendent, changing each other’s lives and worlds, an
Old books on my table, covered by faded cloth, still strongly bound, although by powdery threads. Bound for gentle and honorable separations. Once pulled apart, unbounded expressions begin. These are such beginnings, and I note to myself. Only the
That other decade, prior to this one.
~ On a Slant ~ I Belong There I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home. —Mahmoud Darwish
Day 3- Considerable feats and little feasts in Mixt: A 4-day Mixed Media experience with old book boards. Salem, Oregon. 🩷🌷🩷
‘Love is a growing up’ -James Baldwin Pulsating unsteadily, fluctuating, yet moored to firm questions. The calls to disarmament. The abolishing of walls. Love is an accountability. The serious task of extracting beauty and softness wi
At this age, stage, in this one life, I no longer desire anything that is attained through great struggle. At least, I no longer welcome it with open and enthusiastic arms.
Two spots available in Romania. More info about this and others on orlyavineri.com/workshops @alexcastroferreira7770
Messing around with old book boards, for four days, starting tomorrow, with some sweethearts. See my teaching schedule on orlyavineri.com/workshops
New on Substack this morning, to read and listen to: In Coming Here A love poem from my father 🙏🏻🫀