Read This Poem Every Day Until It Sinks In
(Image: Our documentary is an OFFICIAL SELECTION for the Duluth-Superior Film Festival and will screen on Sunday Oct 6th at 12:30 pm at Zinema in Duluth! I would love to see you there!)
Here’s this week’s list of feel good stuff!
1. Reading Brings Us Together. My mother loved the New Yorker and I subscribed to it on and off but realized I only like the shouts and whispers and the satire. This is a beautiful essay about an aging parent and a shared love of The New Yorker. Whether you share books (or the New Yorker) with your sister, mom or BFF..it matters.
“I was 26 when my boyfriend of three years finally ended our relationship, sending me into a reckoning with every un-distilled idea I had about the durability of true love. I called my mother every day for two weeks and sobbed into the receiver. She listened quietly and steadfastly until one day she interrupted with, “Do you need a subscription to The New Yorker?”
“Yes.” I whimpered.
Read the whole beautiful thing here: For the Love of a Magazine
Ask somebody you love what they are reading and loving and share your favorite book this season!
2. Being a Creative is Sometimes Lonely. That’s why its so important to be sure you get out for coffees/walks or to find a way to be a part of a creative community somehow! This artist NAILS it.
“Our work as artists is courageous and scary … It is a fragile process of teaching oneself to work alone, and focusing on how to hone your quirky creative obsessions so that they eventually become so oddly specific they can only be your own.”
Teresita Gonzalez
What are YOU obsessed about?
….for me it’s bears and mustard jars holding flowers signifying my mother, spiritual insights from a pachyderm named Alice, and, lately, painting postmenopausal tigers. (see image below)
Play with your obsessions! Write about them! This is making art!
3. A Quote Worth Reading Every Morning Until You Integrate It:
You are perfect, only you don’t know it.
Learn to know yourself and you will discover wonders.
All you need is already within you, only you must approach yourself with reverence and love.
Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous errors.
Your constant flight from pain and search for pleasure is a sign of the love you bear for yourself;
all I plead with you is this: make love of yourself perfect.
Deny yourself nothing – give yourself infinity and eternity and discover that
you do not need them; you are beyond.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
4. It’s NEVER too late to live your dream. I began painting, in earnest, in 2020 at age 52.
Like me, Isabella Ducrot, a painter in Rome, didn’t really pick up a brush until her 50s. Four decades later, galleries and museums throughout Europe are celebrating her work. Her work is DELIGHTFUL! Read her story here.
At 57, my art is now in collections in Miami 🏝️ , Los Angeles 💫 , Colorado ⛰️ , Canada🇨🇦 , Chicago 🍕 , Palm 🏖️ , Atlanta 🏡, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, annnnd Duluth, MN!!
It’s also in a wonderful non-profit’s exam room for kids and )soon!) in a residential home for kids who are in recovery from trauma. I am so overjoyed!
Thank you so much for every single one of you who has liked/loved, purchased my art in any form, shared my posts and cheered me on!
I am SO GRATEFUL!!
You can see my available originals here.
Next week I am heading out for my first artist residency in Washburn Wisconsin, I am nervous and excited to see what work I will create in that beautiful place! If you’re in the neighborhood, come see me at Ghost Ship Gallery Sept 7-21!
I’m taking NEW clients again on Thursdays!
You can go here to book your shamanic healing or coaching session.
with love,
Sarah
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This bedding is wonderfully comfy and I love it so much- I always get compliments on it when I give tours of our cabin!
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HERE/S WHAT”S HAPPENING SO FAR THIS FALL!
Local friends in and around Duluth…please SAVE THE DATE
A book launch party on September 24th from 7-9 pm with cupcakes and prosecco!
RSVP here at the facebook event to get updates.
Add here’s a link can use for pre-ordering the workbook from Zenith:
Saturday September 28 I will be at 47 degrees Art Gallery in Knife River, MN (47 Degrees
186 Alger Smith Road Knife River, MN 55609 tel: (218) 590-4532) from 11 to 5 pm signing copies of my new Boundaries Workbook – I may have a few art goodies with me too! Its a part of the wonderful 2020 art tour.
October 3-6 is the Duluth Superior Film Festival and the documentary I co-produced “Follow Your Feel Good: The Art of Sarah Seidelmann” is an Official Selection of the Festival….screening time TBD. I will share more as soon as info is made available.
Friday October 11 I will be signing copies of my new Boundaries workbook at Hemlock’s Leather at 115 north 3rd avenue West Duluth, MN 55806 Its such a fun and beautiful shop- please come shop and say hi!
Saturday October 12 there will be an opening reception for my show at the Ely State Theatre from 5-6 pm! Come see the beautiful work I have prepared for you!
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