I N D Y I V Y H E A R T R I S I N G
A P R I L B U D D I N G D E C ON S T R U C T E D S I L K S C R E E N ON S I L K , R I V E S B F K P A P E R , M A C H I N E S T I T C H I N G , E Y E L E T # 5 3
Prayer made visible. For children and mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters. For family for friends. For health and safety, prayers of compassion and empathy, fierce prayers and gentle prayers. For communities and the lost, for Mother Earth and Father Sky, for oceans, forests, flowers and crickets and creeks. For beauty, for peace, for love. For fires and food and keeping the faith for those who are wandering. The fabric begins as a blank cloth, waiting for our conversation to begin. We sing, we pray, we say "yes", "no", "this". The fabric and the prayers tell me their story and I serve as the storyteller. I pray. S T E P H A N I E L E W I S R O B E R T S ON F I N E A R T C H A I R
I listen to music all of the time- and find myself fixated on certain lyrics …. Lennon and McCartney’s “In My Life”--- “Though I know I'll never lose affection For people and things that went before, I know I'll often stop and think about them. In my life I love you more”. From Wicked: “I've heard it said That people come into our lives for a reason bringing something we must learn and we are led to those who help us most to grow if we let them and we help them in return. I don’t know if it’s true, but I know I’m who I am today because I knew you”. These songs say everything I cannot about why I love Ivy Tech and why it is important to me!
WH A T I V Y T E C H M E A N S T O M E
My students. My faculty. My community, my heart, my prayers. My tears and frustrations, my tears and joy. Pride in what people can and are accomplishing. Making a difference. Believing in possibility and potential.
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