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		By: Päivi		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2021 11:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.peonyandparakeet.com/about-playfulness-and-spirituality-in-art/#comment-95192&quot;&gt;Melinda Stroup&lt;/a&gt;.

Thank you, Melinda!!]]></description>
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<p>Thank you, Melinda!!</p>
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		By: Päivi		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2021 10:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.peonyandparakeet.com/about-playfulness-and-spirituality-in-art/#comment-95190&quot;&gt;Annie&lt;/a&gt;.

Thank you, Annie! However, don&#039;t left your inner engineer too behind! There&#039;s a lot in art that looks effortless but is very analytical and full of attention to nuances, that applies to my art too. I use my inner engineer all the time even if the ultimate experience for me in art is freedom. So it&#039;s just great to be an engineer too!!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.peonyandparakeet.com/about-playfulness-and-spirituality-in-art/#comment-95190">Annie</a>.</p>
<p>Thank you, Annie! However, don&#8217;t left your inner engineer too behind! There&#8217;s a lot in art that looks effortless but is very analytical and full of attention to nuances, that applies to my art too. I use my inner engineer all the time even if the ultimate experience for me in art is freedom. So it&#8217;s just great to be an engineer too!!</p>
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		By: Päivi		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2021 10:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.peonyandparakeet.com/about-playfulness-and-spirituality-in-art/#comment-95189&quot;&gt;Jan Illingsworth&lt;/a&gt;.

I love this &quot;prefer to be in my not-knowing&quot; It feels to me that this kind of approach leaves room for the spirit to come up!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.peonyandparakeet.com/about-playfulness-and-spirituality-in-art/#comment-95189">Jan Illingsworth</a>.</p>
<p>I love this &#8220;prefer to be in my not-knowing&#8221; It feels to me that this kind of approach leaves room for the spirit to come up!</p>
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		By: Päivi		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Päivi]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2021 10:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.peonyandparakeet.com/about-playfulness-and-spirituality-in-art/#comment-95187&quot;&gt;Linda Hartman&lt;/a&gt;.

Oh, my heart jumped with joy - there&#039;s a writer who reads my blog and who dreams about creating art!

There&#039;s a lot in writing that you can use for visual expression, so I am excited for you! But as you know that it&#039;s quite impossible to learn writing without writing, it&#039;s even more impossible to learn painting or drawing without doing it. With writing, we can just type, but with painting and drawing, motoric skills need to grow too. 

I also think that we  have to move a part of the wisdom from our brain to our hand, and also accept that the hand accidentally creates something that&#039;s more interesting to the mind than the image that has been growing there for weeks. That&#039;s when the adventure begins!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.peonyandparakeet.com/about-playfulness-and-spirituality-in-art/#comment-95187">Linda Hartman</a>.</p>
<p>Oh, my heart jumped with joy &#8211; there&#8217;s a writer who reads my blog and who dreams about creating art!</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a lot in writing that you can use for visual expression, so I am excited for you! But as you know that it&#8217;s quite impossible to learn writing without writing, it&#8217;s even more impossible to learn painting or drawing without doing it. With writing, we can just type, but with painting and drawing, motoric skills need to grow too. </p>
<p>I also think that we  have to move a part of the wisdom from our brain to our hand, and also accept that the hand accidentally creates something that&#8217;s more interesting to the mind than the image that has been growing there for weeks. That&#8217;s when the adventure begins!</p>
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		By: Päivi		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2021 10:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.peonyandparakeet.com/about-playfulness-and-spirituality-in-art/#comment-95186&quot;&gt;Ann Mueller&lt;/a&gt;.

Thanks, Ann! I agree, colors and shapes don&#039;t always have to be born intentionally, sometimes art is the art of seeing and receiving!]]></description>
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<p>Thanks, Ann! I agree, colors and shapes don&#8217;t always have to be born intentionally, sometimes art is the art of seeing and receiving!</p>
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		By: Päivi		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2021 10:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.peonyandparakeet.com/about-playfulness-and-spirituality-in-art/#comment-95184&quot;&gt;Phyllis Thomason&lt;/a&gt;.

Thank you, Phyllis! &quot;To ask not to fear&quot; - I love that, it&#039;s such a boost in self-confidence, especially when doing regularly. Wonderful to hear that you like the results from Floral Freedom!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.peonyandparakeet.com/about-playfulness-and-spirituality-in-art/#comment-95184">Phyllis Thomason</a>.</p>
<p>Thank you, Phyllis! &#8220;To ask not to fear&#8221; &#8211; I love that, it&#8217;s such a boost in self-confidence, especially when doing regularly. Wonderful to hear that you like the results from Floral Freedom!</p>
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		By: Melinda Stroup		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2021 08:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hi Päivi! The painting of your mom and your colorful, playful painting from 2014 are both wonderful. The intensity of the yellow in the 2014 one is glorious, and the emerging flowers give a feeling of lushness. I agree that it&#039;s important for the ego to step back. Nothing dampens my creativity and playfulness more than concerns about my own skill or importance.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Päivi! The painting of your mom and your colorful, playful painting from 2014 are both wonderful. The intensity of the yellow in the 2014 one is glorious, and the emerging flowers give a feeling of lushness. I agree that it&#8217;s important for the ego to step back. Nothing dampens my creativity and playfulness more than concerns about my own skill or importance.</p>
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		By: Annie		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2021 00:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Letting go of mind, allowing my playful spirit to take over, and create!  Difficult for me as an engineer.  As a former A type personality for self, I still carry control into my art.  I want to adopt your free spirit side and have fun making marks.  I need spiritual creative fun in my life now.  This is what I see in your work and love it.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Letting go of mind, allowing my playful spirit to take over, and create!  Difficult for me as an engineer.  As a former A type personality for self, I still carry control into my art.  I want to adopt your free spirit side and have fun making marks.  I need spiritual creative fun in my life now.  This is what I see in your work and love it.</p>
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		By: Jan Illingsworth		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2021 23:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I consider all my art and poetry to be an expression of the spirit of me, however that manifests, in the process of creating. I had a loose Catholic upbringing. I say loose because we lived in a wilderness area of Aotearoa New Zealand until I was nine and had no car for most of that time. My father was  an atheist but when I asked him why he didn&#039;t go to mass he said when he wanted to talk to God he would sit under a tree. Then he winked.  I  don&#039;t belong to any religion now but follow a Buddhist philosophy in my daily life.  I have an aversion to dogma, not liking to be controlled by outside forces and thinking and I attempt not to believe anything.  I would prefer to be in my not knowing than to take on a belief system.
I agree playfulness, curiosity and open mindedness are useful assets in creating and walking, what I call, a Wildflower Path.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I consider all my art and poetry to be an expression of the spirit of me, however that manifests, in the process of creating. I had a loose Catholic upbringing. I say loose because we lived in a wilderness area of Aotearoa New Zealand until I was nine and had no car for most of that time. My father was  an atheist but when I asked him why he didn&#8217;t go to mass he said when he wanted to talk to God he would sit under a tree. Then he winked.  I  don&#8217;t belong to any religion now but follow a Buddhist philosophy in my daily life.  I have an aversion to dogma, not liking to be controlled by outside forces and thinking and I attempt not to believe anything.  I would prefer to be in my not knowing than to take on a belief system.<br />
I agree playfulness, curiosity and open mindedness are useful assets in creating and walking, what I call, a Wildflower Path.</p>
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		By: Linda Hartman		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2021 20:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am not an artist, but a wanna be artist.  I&#039;ve collect how-to books, materials, some of which I have no idea what I thought I&#039;d use them for...but here&#039;s the thing. I am becoming more and more aware of the idea of spirituality, of letting go of ego, breathing deeply, seeing what happens if...I take lots of risks with my writing, and now want to play with art.  I really appreciate your connection of the two.  Thanks.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am not an artist, but a wanna be artist.  I&#8217;ve collect how-to books, materials, some of which I have no idea what I thought I&#8217;d use them for&#8230;but here&#8217;s the thing. I am becoming more and more aware of the idea of spirituality, of letting go of ego, breathing deeply, seeing what happens if&#8230;I take lots of risks with my writing, and now want to play with art.  I really appreciate your connection of the two.  Thanks.</p>
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		By: Ann Mueller		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2021 19:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I agree Pavi that play is important to spiritual expression.  Getting out of my own way is the key.  Bring big arm and media movements results in more magical shapes and liveliness that thrills me more.  Out of these shapes and spaces I see something I never thought about before.  I am becoming more brave to explore different ways of expressing.  I am also surprised at how much I like what I have been doing in Floral Freedom work shop.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree Pavi that play is important to spiritual expression.  Getting out of my own way is the key.  Bring big arm and media movements results in more magical shapes and liveliness that thrills me more.  Out of these shapes and spaces I see something I never thought about before.  I am becoming more brave to explore different ways of expressing.  I am also surprised at how much I like what I have been doing in Floral Freedom work shop.</p>
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		By: Phyllis Thomason		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2021 18:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For me, I always ask God to enable me to not fear and just paint what I feel. I love to watch others painting online. It has really taught me a lot. Really more than in college because instructors want you to paint ONLY the way they interpret it. Paivi, you encourage free expression. That’s what I love about you.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For me, I always ask God to enable me to not fear and just paint what I feel. I love to watch others painting online. It has really taught me a lot. Really more than in college because instructors want you to paint ONLY the way they interpret it. Paivi, you encourage free expression. That’s what I love about you.</p>
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