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Patricia Kosdan
- 59, Female
- Carrboro, N.C.
- United States
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Dear Angela,
We sat around a small fire drumming the moon up over the trees, giving her such gratitude for the light she was shedding on our emotional baggage. I love her no-nonsense, stark beauty. Wishing you such peace in your new home. May your p…
Angela, With deepest gratitude I thank you for helping to state such a clear intention for this full moon time -- as the thunderstorm bangs around the house tonight I will sleep, tomorrow morning I will reflect on my soul's wanderings. Pat
I felt the moons energy building within me since last night. As I prepare to sit in silence, hands resting on my inked board, I feel blessed to be connected into this lovely community tonight.
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- At 12:23am on August 31, 2009,
Gail Baker said…
- Hey, Pat. My layering of color is just pastels on the back of the touch drawing. I pushed hard with color and rubbed it in to blend in some places. Nothing complicated. As Deborah suggested. Blessings, Gail B
- At 3:25pm on August 10, 2009,
Shemaya Blauer said…
- Hi Pat,
Sorry to hear about your virus and glad to hear that you are listening. Would love to share notes of the past and present, ebbs and flows.Some of my highlights: I collaborated with my housemate to inspire a world-wide wave of light through creating and lighting luminaries (around the inauguration). For me it was a burst of hope, healing, love and community, and I sent 30 or so luminaries with my touch drawings on them. Also went to a community gathering to watch the inauguration and both facilitated and did touch drawing during the event. Have not done as much at work as I would like, and am staying quiet and under the radar of this conservative agency. The drawings that I did when Mamshi was dying feel like a touchstone that will guide me into the next steps...The gathering was a wonderful deepening around the energy that is created through this medium. More important than the drawings themselves, when this energy of souls gathers in sacred space so many amazing things are possible. The inner portraits were done on the 2nd day, and the awe was even in the pairing of the right people...My heart is so deeply honored and grateful for this, and if my presence inspires others to dive and reveal, to remember and to return, then I am grateful. My Mamshi cards seem to be healing in many different ways for others, and the beauty for me is that they needed to be drawn to find my way through my grief, and in turn they become the gift for others.
Gotta run. Love and healing hugs,
Shemaya
- At 11:00pm on August 7, 2009,
- Hi Pat!
I found myself thinking of you often during the Gathering and knowing that somewhere we all connect through our soul-dipped hands. I find myself smiling in my re-entry after the Gathering... Wondering if it's the collective tribe who answer to the diving deeply, the expansiveness, and the transformation. I'm excited to be off to the International Expressive Art therapy conference, which feels like a bigger commitment to my creativity. Hoping you are filled and joyous...Shemaya
- At 6:48pm on March 19, 2009,
- Hello Pat. Wonderful to hear form you and so sweet that you thought of me. I need to join the full moon draw! Your drawings continue to be inspiring and vibrate with your special beauty. Am drawing and grieving as beautiful Mumshie passes through the portal into her next life. It is amazing to be touched by the many gifts that she has brought to my life as I have lived together with her and her daughter the past year and a half...Shemaya
- At 6:59am on February 17, 2009,
Tanjariitta Anttila van Hoover said… - Your work is amazing! I love the way you apply color...
- At 10:02am on January 4, 2009,
Tanya M. Lewis said… - Dear Pat,
Thank you for your kind comments. I understand the initial feelings of hesitation in sharing your work. Touch Drawing is such a personal process, I felt the same way. It's delving deeper than words & lending voice to one's soul. I find the more I immerse myself in the process, the freer I become. I am so very glad you chose to share your work, it is truly moving & beautiful.
The music on my site is not my own composition. I found it at http://padmasoundsystem.com Free mp3 downloads. They actually have quite a few to select from. I also set my page up so the music there may be shared. Please feel free. Talk with you soon.
Love,
Tanya
- At 10:08pm on January 2, 2009,
Tanya M. Lewis said…
- Hi Pat,
I absolutely love your drawings. Thank you for sharing. Reading your description of the touch drawing process & what it inevitably stirs within you, brought kindred feelings to mind.
Tanya
- At 11:56pm on January 1, 2009,
- Hi Pat!!!
So Wonderful to hear from you, and especially how BOLD you are being. I just emailed you my latest BOLDness, which seems to be my launching pad for my touch drawing work. Have just had a conversation with Katrina Plato today to support me in taking the leap and DOING/Being my work. I have been patient and realize that I have fears about being too powerful for others in my work...which leaves me up against my deep longing to do my work in the world. So, I ask you to join my circle of support to hold my vision of facilitating creativity for healing and expression, especially in my hospice work and in the larger world (as in the Luminary project)...Ahhh. I am so grateful for you in my life...a beautiful kindred spirit!
Hugs and happy hands!
Shemaya
- At 2:02pm on October 21, 2008,
Ellen said… - Hi Pat,
Thanks for your beautiful comments. Art school is interesting. I thought I was the happiest camper in the world, and I definitely do love doing the "art" stuff. However, I am definitely having a problem with some of the lectures and the propoganda that's being taught to the students. It would be great if Universities actually taught critical thinking and to challenge what our media and institutions are teaching. However, they know where their money comes from. I am also much more into using art as expression and learning about ones self, as opposed to learning what to do that will 'make it' or 'sell." Tonight I am starting a 9 week Zen Brushwork Meditation course and that excites me more actually. I am also taking African drumming lessons and just love it. So, I'm not even sure I will go next semester. Really doing some internal searching right now. However, I don't regret it for a minute, I would have always wondered.
Grandbaby (grandson we were told), is 3 days late and counting. As soon as the contractions start I will book a plane flight. I cannot wait to hold the little bambino. I will post a pic as soon as I arrive and get some photos with the little one. Love to you, and I'll keep you posted. Ellen
- At 1:49am on October 14, 2008,
Barbara Waugh said… - Hi Pat,
It's so auspicious to hear from you. This is the first day in 25 yrs i've not been in HP. My whole group was laid off shortly after i returned from TD and it's been a tumultous time ever since. i haven't even unpacked my drawings, and i really need that energy right now. you inspire me to do it! my biggest challenges in the near term are total exhaustion. Longer term it's to get back in touch with joy and wanting to be alive. I have a spot on my lung that they are pretty sure is nothing but i have to go back in a few months for followup. so i need that life energy. i tried unsuccessfully to find a body therapist - i forget the speciality you said but i knew it when i was looking all over right after return. what is it again?
your art is wonderful! it's great to hear from you! our connection meant so much to me.
love,
barb
Profile Information
- My interest is in
- Touch Drawing Personal Use, SoulCards Personal Use, Facilitating Touch Drawing
- What brings you to an interest in Touch Drawing or SoulCards?
- I have been expressing my feelings through touch drawing for the past 4 years. The experience has fed me. It truly brings my soul to life.
- My experience applies to:
- Art, Creativity, Spiritual, Intuitive, Health, Grief, Expressive Arts
- Other areas of interest & experience
- I am a licensed bodyworker / massage therapist. I am a new grandmother and am totally in love. Sacred ceremony makes me feel as though I have come home again. Nature and all of her wild Beauty takes my breath away.
- Have you done Touch Drawing?
- Yes
- How did you find out about the Touch Drawing Community?
- -from the Newsletter
-participation in a 2007 workshop with Deborah in Boone, NC
- Have you facilitated Touch Drawing?
- Yes
- In what setting have you facilitated?
- in my home
- I attended the Annual Touch Drawing Gathering on Whidbey Island, Washington
- 2008
- Share a special experience with Touch Drawing or SoulCards.
- Once a month for 4 years I sit with a friend in silence and we do Touch Drawing. It has helped me to heal a deep grief in my heart from the death of my stepson, Gabriel. The process allowed me to express so many of the raw emotions I was feeling--and then I went deeper into my connection with life, Nature, found silliness, and creative energy. It sparked my Spirit back. This outpouring gave me many hundreds of drawings of which I chose 10 to display at my first "art show" in town last November. To allow myself to be seen in this way was transformational, scary and yet, I found it a bit like coming back to a place of dreams I had abandoned years ago.. . so yeah for the process!!!
- Do you facilitate SoulCards with others?
- Not yet but I plan to.
- If so, with whom and how?
- I now have a set of cards available for my massage clients to use.
- Is there anything else you would like us to know about you?
- When I read the proposed outline for the 2008 Gathering it brought tears to my eyes. It contains so much of what I am hungering for and I am very excited to be one of this years participants.
- City, state, zip and/or region and country
- Carrboro, NC 27510 USA
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