we tuck together, arms 'round, against the wind and days of weary and we smell baby skin and bread-on-hands and commune, this family-small
and aiden plays his invisible magic flute and trent opens library read and i paint canvas, their faces with brush, and they don't know it but i'm making them timeless
and someday someone will see these pictures and wonder at the family tucked tight and we'll be gone but the angels will hum through canvas piece and i know
that this is why i'm here. to remember them this way. to teach magic flute-playing-son the trinity of mother-father-child. so he might grow oak-strong and branch out and tuck others into himself and be family-full for the empty-love.
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49 comments:
I love this series of paintings. (Is it a series? I am sorry - I do not know very much about art.) I especially love the first and the fourth.
love how you paint your family tucked tight - and love the magic flute...
my imperfect prose is up as well - and ready to be shared with wonderful you people..!
I love how you talk about making them timeless and your "son growing oak-strong and branching out." Your art is stunning and I love it.
I love your "family small". Thank you for sharing your painted bread with us.
The paintings are just as beautiful as your words. Love the "holding close" I see in your artwork.
Oh my gosh. I love what you do with words....and add the photos. They are so perfectly matched. Which comes first.....the words or the images?
And the music!!!I love, love, love the music.
Love the trinity of mother-father-child. It is awesome to be a part of that circle, it eclipses all else, really.
PS: I'm on vacation this week, a bit scattered, but adding a "post edit" and link to this post!
xoxo,
Terresa
They are all beautiful. Love the colors again.
You are so talented Emily!
I love how you can create such a feeling of peace and warmth through a few simple brush strokes.
I see you all there in them. Simple beauty of line and colour carefully composed, will grace others for years to come.
Your moment of love and togetherness, imprinting over and over and over again joy abundant on lives beyond.
What treasures Aiden has to cherish from you, your heart your canvas and paintbrush :)
God Bless
xx
You truly are a wordsmith of epic proportions. I am thoroughly enjoying popping in here for my *quiet moments of reflection*.
Thanks E.
What a gift you have given me, Emily. Your painting...speaks. This fills. Thank you, friend.
Thank you for inviting me to join in these gifts.
And you're right, THIS is why you're here. This little family, this love light for each other and for the world to know His love.
"No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us." I John 4:12
It seems, to me, that the little family in the painting has become one in the arms of the Father.
Beautiful paintings, beautiful words. Joining you with imperfect prose today!
Emily, thank you so much for creating this community. I love your posts and am excited to visit so many kindred spirits through "Imperfect Prose".
Now, if I can just fix the button ;)
Oh, please, continue to make them timeless. And keep sharing them with us. You're beautiful, emily.
Lovely paintings and words...so intimate and primal.
oh..it is utterly tender and filled with life...thank you for sharing this today...
I want to contribute but i keep forgetting...next time ..blessings friend for perfectly imperfect prose
You are leaving a beautiful legacy Em - on hearts and on canvas.
Yes - this is why we pour ourselves into creative work, that we might leave a little of ourselves as testimony.
Very cool, Emily. Thank you for filling my empty spirit this morning.
girl, you can SO write. and paint. this child of yours, this family, so lucky. i'm looking forward to thursdays like i do tuesdays... ;)
Beautiful. My favorite is the first painting.
Thanks for letting me be a part of Imperfect Prose today.
I adore your paintings!!
I linked up to you through my writing site.. rainingsilence.blogspot but perhaps I should go ahead and link you on the other page as well.
Thanks for encouraging me, you are truly a blessing sent from above!
Wonderful, Em. I love the love -- the family, mother, wife love -- you express through your brush...
I posted today too!
God's Not Dead -- a poem in the works --
http://www.christinacrook.com/cblog/2010/07/gods-not-dead/
Love Christina
simply stunning Em.
Very Cool!
I've added a post, Em.
I couldn't not.
your words and paintings move this mamma to tears always.
looking forward to reading everyone's links.
loved seeing Terresa here.. she is jawdropping talented. And has red hair. What's not to love.:)
Safe refuge. Beautiful.Heaven on earth.
"oak strong". how i pray that for my sons! i love you xo
I love your words.. and look forward to the work of others here as well.
I'm linking up for the first time, but I believe I will be back often.
what an invitation to partake ...
Gorgeous paintings ... your many talents really amaze and inspire me, Emily.
I linked here to metamorphosis; I had planned another piece for this, but since you enjoyed the other so much, I figured I'd go with that one instead :).
Hope you and your family are doing wonderfully.
Oh, Emily...
"i paint canvas, their faces with brush,"
Lovely.
Yes, we are here to remember and teach love to our children.
XO
Emily
My server was down all day, so I linked up rather late.... I hope it is all right, I guess no real harm in making an attempt.
Joanny
I just figured out why I don't hear from you that often... Besides the fact that I haven't checked my reader much this week, I hadn't even put you IN there yet! Silly me. It looks like this is taking off wonderfully! I'll have to try and link up sometime soon!
I just find out about you a few minutes ago,
I linked up one poem,
hope that it is okay!
thanks a ton!
And I'm suddenly linking up here too, a little late, but hopefully welcome. I thought of you when I wrote the first part of today's post. Hope you don't mind!
I am late. I'm sorry. Part of being Imperfect. :) Never stop creating, Emily.
Just found out about this blog. I guess I'm feeling pretty imperfect of late....
Debby
www.heavenlyhumor.blogspot.com
Yum.
Such delicious, simple paintings.
Okay, linked. :) Is there a place that has your button code, btw?
Hi I linked in, I love your blog. thanks, alan
love the paintings
e you are beautiful never stop painting your love
Yes, oak-strong like his mum. And dad. I love the gesture of your paintings. You capture motion and stillness all at once. A paradox.
http://itistimetothinkformyself.blogspot.com/2010/07/pick-one-or-two-to-share-follow-rule-no.html
you are such an amazing person,
hope that you enjoy some friendship tags.
Happy August!
These are so beautiful!
I'm attempting to link up for the first time...my imperfection should be up at midnight :-)
Exquisit painting. I just love them. Thanks!
I linked in super late -- hope that's okay!
I linked in super late -- hope that's okay!
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