The mantra goes like this:
Actually, it is a meditation of ripples. The second round, after the “I”, someone very close is named. On the third round, someone a bit farther out, and so on until the wish is for all the world to dwell in its heart. The universe. And then, the ripples return, layer by layer, arriving back to you.
It is a peace mantra, a meditation on connectivity that runs through the heart, the place between I and you, us and them. It is the “and.”
This is one of those paintings that jumped onto the canvas fully formed. It is either disturbing to people (“Why is she falling?”) or intensely comforting (“I wonder what she is reaching for.”) It is, in that way, very much like the meditation, an exercise of thought control or an aspirational prayer.
read Kerri’s blog post about MAY YOU
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