It's my birthday, so I am giving myself a present -
The Right To Toot My Own Horn.
Here are a few quotes from messages I have received in recent months about my artwork . . . as I deeply respect both of these authors, I am stunned and humbled to be lauded by their beauteous words!
"You are an art magician. What you do is spiritual alchemy made manifest"
- Suzanne Finnamore, Best-selling author of Split, Zygote Chronicles, Old Maid and others.
www.finnablog.blogspot.com
Sher's Response to Suzanne:
You are a goddess among women - you have the wicked tongue and cool bangs of a true lioness. I would love to have you in my pack of wandering four-leggeds - after we have all reincarnated from our current, sharp-as-a-tack selves.
We can howl at the moon from all corners of our earth - ye from the west, self from the south, and blade from the easterly region, I'm not sure if Kate Cake qualifies as northerly (we might need to subsitute Jim Shue as our northern sister kin as he is closer to the North Pole). . . or maybe Brandon, I need help on the 4th!
Your Prayer Flag is blowing crimson in the fluffy falling snow (calling you home to North Carolina, I hope). If I can FIND my camera amongst my boughs of holly, I will take a shot and send it forth . . . (um, I might need a week for that).
" . . . this is what I want to say: you are not merely gifted technically, you have endowed those pieces with such heart-sweetnessI wanted to cry. My daughter and sister will see what I meant them to see: a touch beyond dimensionality, as fragile and sublime as the butterfly wings and the words of grief behind them. Your heart is there, and as a person who tries to never shy away from putting my own heart in my work, I see it and I offer you my deepest respect and gratitude. I know I am a loony as a religious person, but I do believe we are here to enrich the space we’re given, and you have done that; I thank you. Thank you sincerely".
- Haven Kimmel, Best-selling author of A Girl Named Zippy (as well as She Got Up Off the Couch [sher's favorite memoir], Something Rising Light & Swift, The Solace of Leaving Early, the Used World, and Iodine, and several children's books).
www.havenkimmel.com
Sher Responds to Haven:
I can barely respond to your comments because they mean so much to me. From the moment I read the first sentence of Zippy I felt you KNEW ME, that we had lived parallel lives of some sort, not only with the back story/region, but especially with your lighthearted SENSE of HUMOR which slays me - and then to discover the deep spiritual truths and depths of your writing - which reveals your soul in all its glory.
Thank YOU. I hope to continue to live up to your authenticity. I can't think of anything adequate to say . . . so . . .
Appreciatively to BLADE from LANCE,
May we slay all the beasts in the nether-worlds,
The Right To Toot My Own Horn.
Here are a few quotes from messages I have received in recent months about my artwork . . . as I deeply respect both of these authors, I am stunned and humbled to be lauded by their beauteous words!
I.
"You are an art magician. What you do is spiritual alchemy made manifest"
- Suzanne Finnamore, Best-selling author of Split, Zygote Chronicles, Old Maid and others.
www.finnablog.blogspot.com
Sher's Response to Suzanne:
You are a goddess among women - you have the wicked tongue and cool bangs of a true lioness. I would love to have you in my pack of wandering four-leggeds - after we have all reincarnated from our current, sharp-as-a-tack selves.
We can howl at the moon from all corners of our earth - ye from the west, self from the south, and blade from the easterly region, I'm not sure if Kate Cake qualifies as northerly (we might need to subsitute Jim Shue as our northern sister kin as he is closer to the North Pole). . . or maybe Brandon, I need help on the 4th!
Your Prayer Flag is blowing crimson in the fluffy falling snow (calling you home to North Carolina, I hope). If I can FIND my camera amongst my boughs of holly, I will take a shot and send it forth . . . (um, I might need a week for that).
II.
" . . . this is what I want to say: you are not merely gifted technically, you have endowed those pieces with such heart-sweetnessI wanted to cry. My daughter and sister will see what I meant them to see: a touch beyond dimensionality, as fragile and sublime as the butterfly wings and the words of grief behind them. Your heart is there, and as a person who tries to never shy away from putting my own heart in my work, I see it and I offer you my deepest respect and gratitude. I know I am a loony as a religious person, but I do believe we are here to enrich the space we’re given, and you have done that; I thank you. Thank you sincerely".
- Haven Kimmel, Best-selling author of A Girl Named Zippy (as well as She Got Up Off the Couch [sher's favorite memoir], Something Rising Light & Swift, The Solace of Leaving Early, the Used World, and Iodine, and several children's books).
www.havenkimmel.com
Sher Responds to Haven:
I can barely respond to your comments because they mean so much to me. From the moment I read the first sentence of Zippy I felt you KNEW ME, that we had lived parallel lives of some sort, not only with the back story/region, but especially with your lighthearted SENSE of HUMOR which slays me - and then to discover the deep spiritual truths and depths of your writing - which reveals your soul in all its glory.
Thank YOU. I hope to continue to live up to your authenticity. I can't think of anything adequate to say . . . so . . .
Appreciatively to BLADE from LANCE,
May we slay all the beasts in the nether-worlds,