Celebrating Courage and Resilience this Christmas, December 2012
Tragedy befell my blackbird’s mate last year about this time. I wept to find its feathers strewn about the garden. Its mate frantically...
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Ellen Michel
- Apr 29
- 1 min
Stones
The stones in the ancient creek bed, Are there to teach us about the birdsong, and to know I am not alone. One Village One Life.
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Ellen Michel
- Apr 20
- 1 min
Painting in Nature
Belying this dry brown place, Green Lake you draw me in, your fertile bog, moist and dark, a crucible of stirring primal life.
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Ellen Michel
- Apr 19
- 1 min
Japanese Flute Player
Out of the mist of time, The poppies dance, drifting into the painting, on a sweet note.
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Ellen Michel
- Apr 19
- 1 min
Mountains Inspire.
Mountains inspire, Lovers save the world, relinking the stars to the beauty of you.
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Ellen Michel
- Apr 17
- 1 min
Bottles and Things
Why paint onions, bottles and things? If not for fquiet reflection, in quiet corners, But to unearth the essence, of their unique design,...
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Ellen Michel
- Apr 17
- 1 min
The Thunder Dragon.
As mountains roar, above valleys cupped in dew, the Thunder Dragon, rises to the Tigers Nest, armed in scales of truth, burnished by the...
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Ellen Michel
- Apr 17
- 1 min
Astonishment.
Astonishment befitting. How did these images, sated to canvas arrive at this place, in this lifetime? I marvel.
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Ellen Michel
- Apr 17
- 1 min
A Tent at the Foreshore.
Longing to be embraced by the bush, We attempt to show an outwad expression, with structures of homage to the sacred. A tent at the...
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Ellen Michel
- Apr 17
- 1 min
Chain of Being
There is no chain of being, I am enfolded largesse, Enfolded in your glad heart, wrapped, on this beaming sunny day.
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Ellen Michel
- Apr 17
- 1 min
The Bare Path
Ground laid bare, By sun and rain, And seeds in darkness, Rise again to flower.
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Ellen Michel
- Apr 15
- 1 min
Quan Yin - mountain mother
She sits in stillness, the holy mountain mother, while I act whirling around in thought and doing, moving around the mountain, like the...
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Ellen Michel
- Apr 14
- 1 min
Between Earth and Sky
Between earth and sky we stand. We are mediators, conduits ,and guardians of this planet. We walk, our feet on the earth, our heads...
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Ellen Michel
- Apr 11
- 1 min
Enlightened One
Your lightweight feathery body, defying gravity, Is miraculous to one, whose feet are made of clay. You evoke in me, something of the...
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Ellen Michel
- Apr 11
- 1 min
Flags of Hope
Many prayer flags, and prayer wheels spinning, blowing in the breeze, they say to the traveler, 'One step is a prayer, take one step at a...
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Ellen Michel
- Apr 11
- 1 min
Bhutan
Climbing the mountain, I will trust in the sure footed donkey, the wind and a prayer.
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Ellen Michel
- Jan 30
- 1 min
Travelling to Morocco in March 2020.
Travelling with a little band of writers and artists, from Tangier, through the blue city of Chefchaouen, Fes, and the Riff Valley to...
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avinash kunta
- Jan 28
- 1 min
Ellen Michel
Ellen Michel, celebrated Heidelberg Artist, Teacher, Art Therapist, Writer, Mentor and Shaman devotes her amazing breadth of skills and...
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Ellen Michel
- Jan 28
- 1 min
A Star Fell
A star fell on his hair, as, A rainbow in the sky did see. A light and prism, not of the world lives somewhere in that dark blue sea. Is...
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Ellen Michel
- Jan 28
- 1 min
Green Lake
Green Lake Conservation Reserve. A circle of mallee gums, around a dry lake bed, The locals say, there is a bog hole and water seeps...
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