Takin' the Easy Way

I just learned about this new app today - ProShowWeb - and decided to check it out.  Now I'm not the most tech-savvy person on the planet, but this app made creating this little slideshow/video SO EASY! It gives you lots of options as far as themes, special effects, music and the ability to instantly share to YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and more, plus upgrades are available.  I'm sticking with the free version for now, however.     When I find something that works, I like to pass it along.  Hope you enjoy watching!

Summer Story - A poem by Mary Oliver

Hummingbird (Stacy Wills, 2013)

alcohol inks on ceramic tile + sacred altering

Summer Story

by Mary Oliver

When the hummingbird

sinks its face

into the trumpet vine,

and the funnels

of the blossoms

and the tongue

leaps out

and throbs,

I am scorched

to realize once again

how many small, available things

are in the world

that aren't 

pieces of gold

or power---

that nobody owns

or could buy even

for a hillside of money---

that just 

float about  the world,

or drift over the fields,

or into the gardens,

and into the tents of the vines,

and how here I am

spending my time,

as the saying goes,

watching until the watching turns into feeling,

so that I feel I am myself

a small bird 

with a terrible hunger,

with a thin beak probing and dipping

and a heart that races so fast

it is only a heart beat ahead of breaking---

and I am the hunger and assuagement,

and also I am the leaves and the blossoms,

and, like them, I am full of delight and shaking

Clothed with the Sun

Clothed with the Sun (Stacy Wills, 2012)

photography + sacred altering

There is a morning inside you

waiting to burst open into light.

-Rumi  (1207 - 1273)

Source image:  Sunrise at Orange Beach, Alabama

The Agate

Agates (Stacy Wills, 2013)

alcohol inks on yupo

The Agate

The Lapidary's skill reveals

that Time has worked her magic -

Was it a rainbow under pressure

that became the treasured agate?

-Stacy Wills (6/14/2013)

With that Moon Language

Eye Candy (Stacy Wills, 2013)

photography/sacred altering

With that Moon Language

Admit something:

Everyone you see, 

you say to them,

"Love me."

Of course you do not

do this out loud,

otherwise someone 

would call the cops.

Still though, think about this,

this great pull in us

to connect.

Why not become the one

who lives with a full moon

in each eye

that is always saying,

with that sweet moon language,

what every other eye

in this world

is dying to hear.

-Hafiz (1325-1389)

A Love Like That

The Sun Worshiper (Stacy Wills, 2013)

alcohol inks and crushed egg shells on yupo + sacred altering

Even after all this time

the Sun never says 

to the Earth,

"You owe me."

Look what happens

with a love like that -

it lights the whole sky.

-Hafiz (1325-1389)

At Twilight

At Twilight (Stacy Wills, 2013)

alcohol inks on clay board + sacred altering

At twilight, 

when everything 

softens, the stark lines 

that once so easily 

defined our world, 

become blurred,

and all we took for

 granted in the light

 now, we strain to see.

At twilight,

when everything

softens - our gaze

must soften as well,

for only then

will we be able 

to truly see aright -

the wonder...the glory...

the essence

of all that is.

-Stacy Wills (5/2/2013)