Amy Stacey Curtis preparing for more photos during a recent collaboration.

 
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Amy Stacey Curtis preparing for more photos during a recent collaboration. I include this one because of the tenderness of her assistant helping with the cape attachment. Also,I had asked that her beloved and talented assistants wave the 100 foot Cape of Gratitude to create some folds and shadow and they are prepared at the end of the cape to do so. They were on it and suddenly we had a lovely purple river flowing down this corridor at Bates Mill...billowing and rippling...only the action of 100 feet of satin almost pulled Amy off her feet. She was so graceful about it but we took a moment to recover.
No Amy Stacey Curtis's were harmed in the filming of this : )
And Happy Birthday Amy, today March 31...and thank you for sharing your journey with us.
Please see Amy's full blog post at www.theartistplan.com

I have a place to return to. When I am cold. Or forlorn. Or confused. Or delighted.

 
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I have a place to return to. When I am cold. Or forlorn. Or confused. Or delighted. I have a place to return to. It is not perfect. I have cursed it at times, of late I heap blessings upon it.
But as they walk their trudging steps, hoods up and insufficiently dressed, to be cast away from that location too, I pray that I may still have a place to return to. And, may I have the fortitude to acknowledge it's a mirage, and that I must anchor more deeply.

Amy Stacey Curtis, I'll be celebrating your birthday all day long...

 
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It was my microbiologist daughter, Anne Madden, who taught me to wash my hands for the time it takes to sing the Happy Birthday song twice through.
During this COVID19 social distancing I find myself noting whose birthday it is on any given day and washing my hands repeatedly throughout the day singing Happy Birthday to them.
It's a funny little practice that has risen from functionality
(it makes me slow down the process and wash more thoroughly and more often) to spiritual ritual. I enjoy it. It brings that person(s) closer to my attention. Closer to my heart. And that helps reduce all this distance and isolation.

Amy Stacey Curtis, I'll be celebrating your birthday all day long singing 'Happy Birthday Dear Amy, Happy birthday to you!' in the spirit of your recent singalongs....ALL DAY...after I go for a walk. Before I make coffee. After I clean the rug...again. Before making lunch. After. Well...you get the idea.

Happy Birthday to our brilliant superhero of the heart and healing, you bedazzled beauty made of sweet stuff AND that highly polished intellect.Wow.

This is another photo from our recent collaboration.
Please see Amy's full blog post at www.theartistplan.com