{"id":653,"date":"2015-08-05T03:59:29","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T11:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/?page_id=653"},"modified":"2025-08-25T08:13:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T16:13:36","slug":"reflections","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/dreamscape\/1st-21st-century-church\/god-creation-and-restoring-the-balance\/poetry\/reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_654\" style=\"width: 502px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/FullSizeRender1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-654\" class=\" wp-image-654\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/FullSizeRender1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Senior A Muse art work created by Gerrie Kunin\" width=\"492\" height=\"657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/FullSizeRender1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/FullSizeRender1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/FullSizeRender1-620x827.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/FullSizeRender1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senior A Muse art work created by Gerrie Kunin<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gerrie.kunin?ref=br_rs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gerrie Kunin<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">I close my eyes<br \/>\nI breathe you in<br \/>\nyour settling<br \/>\nsteadies me,<br \/>\nyour touch<br \/>\nguides me.<br \/>\nBreathing out,<br \/>\nI open my eyes and find<br \/>\nyou playing in the paint again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Bay Laurel<br \/>\nSage<br \/>\nAlmond Oil<br \/>\nMeyer Lemon<br \/>\nNutmeg<br \/>\nPears<br \/>\nShiitakes!<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s what you smelled like.<br \/>\nThe air smelled of you<br \/>\nJust now<\/p>\n<p>In the language of the Dine, dragonfly means pure or sacred water. In Japan, there are over 200 species of dragonflies, and each has a traditional name. Ancient and intentional, over 250 million years of being, from the water to the air, returning to the beginnings.<\/p>\n<p>I imagine you airborne, beside me, suspended in flight,scattering the most intimate and infinite of dreams till they come to rest upon the heart of all who breathe in and out through gills and membranes and light.<\/p>\n<p>Gerrie said she &#8220;Incorporated into a drawing on handmade paper that has called to me for its story to be set free for a long long time&#8221; for the Senior&#8217;s Art Artshow at the Homestead Valley Community Center. on August 1, 2015.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gerrie.kunin?ref=br_rs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gerrie Kunin<\/a> is a well known Marin County <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinij.com\/general-news\/20100811\/woolsey-elderly-will-benefit-from-health-care-reform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social justice activist<\/a>\u00a0who combines her activism with her art. She currently is focusing her passion on creating a space for artists, writers and social justice activist in Costa Rica.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By Gerrie Kunin I close my eyes I breathe you in your settling steadies me, your touch guides me. Breathing out, I open my eyes and find you playing in the paint again. Bay Laurel Sage Almond Oil Meyer Lemon Nutmeg Pears Shiitakes! That&#8217;s what you smelled like. 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