Sustainable Me - Space for Creativity and Backyard Bunnies

After a comment on my Backyard Bunnies post, I have been thinking more about the Animal spirit of the Rabbit, and the medicine that is associated with this animal in the Native American tradition.  Fear, abundance and creativity are the words that are associated most with this animal.  I have been thinking about these words in terms of myself, being an artist and also being an art educator. Today I was confronted with a photo on the front page of our local paper, and also an email request at work.  The photo shows an animated teacher and engaged learners, and the caption reads, "Preparing Future Teachers".  My email work request was to capture our GT students at work in our respective classrooms using photography.  These photos will be used somehow in a video that will be produced showing - what does our GT program look like at High school? and what are our GT students doing and how are they engaged in learning?  We are to take these photos of our GT s...

I have always loved bunnies.  And they have shown up every place that I have lived.  As an adult, I discovered just a couple of years ago that I do have Native American heritage from a South Texas tribe.  But even before that discovery, my aunt told me about Animal spirits and Animal medicine, and encouraged me to become more aware of my interactions with nature.  So over the years, I have paid attention, and I do believe that bunnies are strong medicine for me.  At this particular house, the bunnies are abundant!  Tonight I saw three of them enjoying and playing in the back yard.  I love to watch them, and am so happy that they like it here.  I think they really love the studio and have made a home in the spaces underneath.  We have an older dog named Winston, and even he lets them be.  He just watches them and seems to co-exist peacefully with them.  When he was younger, he would have chased them down.  But now he just wat...