Live Virtual Group Session: 12PM EST November 17th 2023

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For this session we took a close look at the painting “Curfew (Likoni March 27 2020) 2022″ by Michael Armitage, posted below.

Our prompt was: “Start with I have witnessed…”

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“Curfew (Likoni March 27 2020) 2022″ by Michael Armitage

Credit: Michael Armitage.

13 thoughts on “Live Virtual Group Session: 12PM EST November 17th 2023”

  1. michele348's avatar michele348

    I have witnessed the pushing of morality and decency off the cliff of the world.
    A world in constant turmoil… chaotic wars being fought across our globe.
    Mother Earth, in sorrow, weeps.
    Smoke, rockets, gunfire, and death poison existence.
    Men, women, and children are forever gone…
    forever gone are their dreams never to be realized.

    I rush to a quiet place among the towering pines
    and listen to the wind singing through the branches.
    This gives me peace and I say a prayer that
    sanity will return to hearts and minds… for it must.
    To once again see the smiles
    on innocent children’s faces at play…
    this is my prayer.

    For this, I look to the heavens,
    awaiting an answer

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    • Trisha Lawson's avatar Trisha Lawson

      I have witnessed the depth of human despair and the joy that comes more often than we care
      To notice or see, that slips so easily and quickly from our gaze that we take it for granted and yet never let it in long enough to know that this moment, this grace, is all that we really need to hold on to, to live in, to live on. I have witnessed the start of life, the end of life, everyday cruelty, and everyday kindness. I have witnessed becoming, unbecoming, and the moment that they turn. I have witnessed enough and yet, not enough – slid into the closet to cut off the sound; but still here, still rising.
      Amen.

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    • Trisha Lawson's avatar Trisha Lawson

      Thank you for sharing your writing. What stays with me is the thought of “faces at play” – the privilege it is to have moments to return to the simple, creative joy of play.

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  2. rehavia6's avatar rehavia6

    I Have Witnessed
    I have witnessed supreme kindness
    I have seen depravity and cruelty
    I have encountered tenderness
    I have beheld agression
    I have been engulfed by a field of wildflowers
    I have been surrounded by piles of debris and garbage
    I have listened to eloquent words of poetry
    I have heard a volley of expletives
    I have experienced love
    I have felt bigotry and loathing.

    What does take for people to be at their best?

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  3. Elizabeth's avatar Elizabeth

    I have witnessed people
    In the middle of a war
    With sons on the frontlines
    Living through shock and horror

    I am in awe
    How they are able to function at regular life
    And help others with their full hearts
    And still find a place of gratitude

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