Thursday, April 30, 2020

Red Canna by Georgia O’Keeffe

Red Canna, 1924 by Georgia O’Keeffe

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Menstruation by Marion Lawless

Jesus's mother
Buddha's mother
Mohammad's mother
Confusius's mother
Lao-Tzu's mother
Ghandi's mother

Kuan Yin‘s mother

Freud's mother
Whitman's mother


Your mother
My mother---
Without menstruation,
None of us would be here.  ~Marion, 1/11/11


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“Where you come from is gone.

Where you thought you were going to was never there.

And where you are is no good unless you can get away from it.

Where is there a place for you to be?

No place.

Nothing outside you can give you any place.

In yourself right now is all the place you’ve got.”

               ~Flannery O’Connor, “Wise Blood”



~ A warrior woman I colored.  ~

1 comment:

erin said...

powerful, Marion. and the O'Keeffe image is the perfect companion!