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Old Woman Wisdom started to form while we were doing a clay project at the Steven's Center Women's group as I was overhearing Dianne talk to the group of clients about wisdom, wrinkles and age. As I worked with my little piece of clay, a face started to form and one of our clients said she looked like an owl. How fitting! Owls are some of my "closest" creatures and they are associated with wisdom and, of course, wisdom is associated with age. (Altho sometimes I feel I have none of it but some premature wrinkles!)

The impressions of leaves we had gathered as a group started to form her "hair-feathers" and I watched her morph into a mixture of owl, tree and woman. The stars in her eyes were created with an imprint into the clay with immature fruit plucked off a tree in the Center's yard on the "texture getting" excursion. Much of the lines were made with sticks on the same afternoon, too.

So, as she continues to form, she "told" me she needed a body. And some big roots, later... no rush as she is wise and knows all too well the demands of other life's facets. She will grow, bear fruit and house some animals who will perch on her for shelter- some even breaking off a branch or two and shaping her form. Others will leave their mark and give her wings. Yet others will poop on her, gross~ yes, and give her fertilizer to sprout up stronger.

All in due time.    

Note the smile lines and the starry eyes. The jowls were hard won, too.  More to come, later.

Blessings,

Linda