Copy and paste to read it or links in profile because my poems are too long to put in a comment. http://www.victoriafedden.com/widelawns/2019/4/14/sunday-a-poem-for-the-start-of-every-single-week
Detail of a poppy. This isn’t a painting! It’s a real flower. I was excited because I’ve never seen a red poppy in real life.
Dream house with a big vegetable garden, lacy curtains, and an enormous front porch with rocking chairs. 🌴
Some people go to bed when they feel sick. I go hang out in orchid greenhouses, I guess. It’s orchid season in south Florida! I can’t help myself!
W.S. Merwin, Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the US died today. Please listen to me and go read as much of his poetry as you possibly can. You need to see what this man could do with a few words and images.
I don’t usually post pictures of myself, but here is a picture of me at my very happiest. I’m my best when I’m in the ocean. I got to go sea kayaking today! 🏖
The colors of the beach are so vivid today.
One of my favorite traditions with Millie is picking tomatoes and strawberries each winter. 🍅🍓
I think that the one thing that I learned from Mary Oliver’s poems is this: go outside, be a part of the world because you are no different than a cat, a whale, a tree, a wave, or a stone. You are an owl and a dragonfly. Go into nature when you’re grieving or heartbroken or confused, but also go outside to celebrate, when you’re in love, when you’re content. Look to nature for answers. Be alive and be human and be complicated. My deep passion for poetry comes from my habit of chasing after divinity. There are rare times when for me language sparks the divine and I feel it, truly feel it, and my faith returns and I get a glimpse of a different truth. It’s not often that I find it, but I did with Mary Oliver’s work. If you do anything this weekend, first go outside, and second read her poetry as much as you can. RIP Mary Oliver, and thank you.
This looks like a painting but it’s a 20 ft tall metal dandelion lit up by lasers. The Night Garden at Fairchild was really spectacular. I’m so glad we went.
Be a light in dark places! (Best New Year’s Eve ever!)
Merry Christmas 🎄
And this is the painting I made for my other cousin. I used white glitter and jewels for the snow effect. She collects snowmen.
I made this Christmas painting for my cousin’s gift this year and she opened it so I can finally post it. I added jewels this time.
Three wise men. Literally.
Here is little me Christmas 1978. Read my newly updated Christmas in the 70s vs. Today. 2018 is too woke for Christmas. Copy and paste the link. http://www.victoriafedden.com/widelawns/2015/12/2/christmas-in-the-70s-vs-christmas-today
After last night I’m really feeling Christmasy. 🎄⭐️🎄

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