Hope

I write during the season of Advent. It is the time when we take deep breaths in the liturgical church and focus on hope, peace, joy and love. This fall I have focused my creating on birds. The resulting products are in the form of stickers, magnets, notecards, ornaments and clergy stoles!

Just can’t get enough about birds!

So I have researched, sketched, read, painted, observed, and drawn digitally. It really has been a joy to create a themed collection.

Part of my research led to the poem “Hope” is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickenson. It is a reminder that hope is something that lives inside us all. We are never alone in times of tribulation as hope is there singing the voice of encouragement. You are a wonderful encouragement to me! Thank you for so many kind words and careful critiques over the last 18 years of the Carrot Top Studio business! So I share with you the inspiring words —

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -

That perches in the soul -

And sings the tune without the words -

And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -

And sore must be the storm -

That could abash the little Bird

That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -

And on the strangest Sea -

Yet - never - in Extremity,

It asked a crumb - of me.

-Emily Dickenson

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