{"id":467,"date":"2009-11-09T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=467"},"modified":"2009-11-09T14:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T14:33:00","slug":"art-nature-and-the-goddess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=467","title":{"rendered":"Art, Nature and the Goddess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_t8QqmnputW4\/SvgzqhT-ZzI\/AAAAAAAAALg\/TE592w6jCfo\/s1600-h\/Agnes.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_t8QqmnputW4\/SvgzqhT-ZzI\/AAAAAAAAALg\/TE592w6jCfo\/s400\/Agnes.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>As I work on my plans for BEAR (Bay End Art Retreats), I get scared at the enormity of it as I&#8217;ve never done something like this before, only dreamed of it. As I ride with my vision, it is evolving in small steps for me. For example, I am going to try a smaller retreat first (hopefully March 2010), with about 18-20 participants. I now have the theme and what the general art focus will be. We will all stay in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.overbrookhouse.com\/\">Overbrook House<\/a>, which includes the use of the dance hall. Instead of Wednesday through Sunday, it will be Thursday afternoon through Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Art, nature and the goddess have been my three muses when times have been tough for me. Art frees my mind, nature restores my spirit and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edithvonnegut.com\/domestic1.html\"> the goddess<\/a> reminds me of how strong I really am.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pixiecampbell.typepad.com\/\">Pixie&#8217;s<\/a>  in a different time zone or I would have asked her for permission for a couple of her images. So, I had to take my own of Agnes, who soars in the entryway of our old house. Like me, she&#8217;s still working on her wings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I work on my plans for BEAR (Bay End Art Retreats), I get scared at the enormity of it as I&#8217;ve never done something like this before, only dreamed of it. As I ride with my vision, it is evolving in small steps for me. For example, I am going to try a smaller &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=467\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Art, Nature and the Goddess&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[631],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}