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	<description>Life {Art, Soul, Heart} in process.</description>
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		<title>Give it all now.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 18:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I&#8217;m taking a little break from the blog this month (as I&#8217;m sure you can tell) for some other projects and an opportunity to get ahead of it a bit and really enjoy the process of discovering each month&#8217;s theme. I&#8217;m also on the lookout for artists, writers, musicians and people with stories who would be willing to contribute to Rough Hewn.  I&#8217;m learning that blogging&#8230;and most art really, has it&#8217;s moments of solitude for sure, but is also a more joyful experience when it&#8217;s created in or around or through community.  Have new work that you&#8217;d like to get out there?  A portfolio you&#8217;d like to get traffic to?  A story you&#8217;d like to test drive?  No matter if it fits with the monthly theme &#8211; Rough Hewn is first and foremost an online community artspace &#8211; where folks can express this thing called life.  And this thing called faith.  And come in contact with beauty and truth in it&#8217;s myriad forms. If you know someone or are someone who would be interested in joining Rough Hewn for a post or two&#8230;.send me a note.  As always, the upcoming monthly themes can be found in the Join In! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My own two feet in front of me&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emerge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This isn&#8217;t an official guest post per se (cause I just asked her about an hour ago if I could post this), but I wanted to share with you a portion of an email I just got from my dear friend Amy.  Amy and I were friends and roommates (Alicante #12!) in college and have been steady pen pals ever since.  She lives in California and I live in Seattle, and even though we both have phones that work, we still prefer to keep it real&#8230;email style and the occasional pen and paper.  Love her heart here and the truth of what is emerging&#8230; &#8220;&#8230;on your blog you quoted John Piper, yes? Saying, &#8220;How did I become a preacher? How did I get married? God only knows. Incredible. So too will your emergence into what you will be at 34 [or 25 or 45] be incredible. Just stay the course and look. Look, LOOK. There is so much to see.&#8221; This is me. This I can relate to. Realized earlier this week that my life. The future that I thought I was going to have is being erased. Little did I know that I was clinging to all the things that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The story unfolding&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: google.com via Chrissy on Pinterest &#160; Dead ends. They come out of nowhere sometimes. And you find yourself saying, Ok. So now what? Like in those &#8220;Choose Your Own Adventure&#8221; novels (&#8220;novel&#8221; being bestowed generously here) from when I was a kid.  There you were going along, making your choices &#8211; being good and not cheating to see what would make a longer story (which, who are we kidding, was totally my MO) &#8211; and then all of a sudden &#8211; THE END -  it&#8217;s done! You drown unexpectedly, find the treasure, get abducted by aliens, get locked in by the door behind you, wake up from the dream, or the monster ends up being the weird caretaker you met at the beginning of the story. Oh. Wait. That&#8217;s Scooby Doo.  But anyways, didn&#8217;t the ending always feel pretty anti-climactic or on the flip side, completely horrifying? No wonder we all wanted to keep the story going. ok. so what&#8217;s my point?  Well, first, read this: “Yes, that’s so,’ said Sam. ‘And we shouldn’t be here at all, if we’d known more about it before we started.  But I suppose it’s often that way.  The brave things in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The art of conversation&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emerge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the last time you made a new friend? I&#8217;m not talking here, about the last time you clicked &#8220;accept&#8221; on a friend request, but the last time you spent time with someone mutually sharing your stories. Maybe it was on a walk, in your kitchen, dorm, porch swing, awkwardly sitting on couches, doing tai bo, fishing, road tripping &#8211; wherever it was, it was face to face or side by side and you found yourselves making connections upon connections and well&#8230;laughing your asses off.  There were the deep questions and relationship stories, the questions like, &#8220;If you could only eat one version of potatoes for the rest of your life, what would it be? Scalloped? Mashed?&#8221;, and then the experiences from your life that can hardly be believed (even by you) that you pull out for the best of the best (Can we say rubic&#8217;s cube? Drunk crows?).  You are so excited to know this person and to be known by them. You feel a little more connected and a little less alone in this world as this person in front of you (or at your side)&#8230; Emerges. I&#8217;ve been wondering, though, whether in the current technical/social climate I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Used cars and ferry boats.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night was one of those warm dreamy Seattle nights where you&#8217;re able to lounge outside well beyond when you&#8217;d thought you&#8217;d have to head back inside.  So, me, curled up with the twilight, a book, and a beer spent some time with Ms. Annie Dillard and her book The Writing Life. I wouldn&#8217;t yet have the courage, really, to call myself a writer&#8230;.an artist, yes&#8230;a writer&#8230;well. I currently know a few writers much more talented than me and so I will not presume anything,but for the moment let&#8217;s say, I would like to someday add that to the pantheon of things I identify myself with.  Anyway, all that to say, this book is giving me so much hope for future progress.  If you&#8217;ve read anything by Dillard, you will know her sentences are lush and poetic, sometimes like a fine wine or dark chocolate, other times, so weighty it&#8217;s like eating a (soul) potato.  One has to come up for air.  All this time I have imagined her out at her Tinker Creek, journal in hand, writing these beautiful sentences out of thin air.  Effortless.  On the spot. Tickled by the muses, if you will. Yeah. No. What&#8217;s really going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Out of the water.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 23:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Baptism. There&#8217;s something about that moment someone comes out of the water. Emerging. Maybe the closest I can come to picturing Christ in that moment of resurrection.  That first big breath back into life. Feel free to contribute to this visual meditation by submitting links in the comment section below&#8230; &#160; LINKS: 1-5. Taken in 2011-12 by me.  6. Insomnia Wander 7. Elizabeth Weinberg 8. Joe Reibosma 9. Bernat Armangue/The Guardian 10. Joe Forkan&#8217;s Lebowski Cycle 11-12. Take Me To the Water exhibit at ICP 13. Clemens Fantur 14-15. 2012 by me. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Showing up &amp; the ugly one&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work.&#8221; Chuck Close said this in a video clip I watched yesterday morning. Watch it. Really. It&#8217;s worth it. I&#8217;ll admit though, the last few weeks my brain has felt kinda &#8211; artistically speaking &#8211; fried. Kinda like jello minus any of the cool floaty fruit or marshmallows. I blame it on the amount of Keeping up with the Kardashian&#8217;s episodes I&#8217;ve been watching lately (which is..embarrassingly&#8230;a lot). And then I remind myself of that Einstein quote (which I heard this week from the fabulously scientific Jonah Lehrer): &#8220;Creativity is the residue of wasted time.&#8221; Pretty sure, though, that if he saw my netflix-glazed eyes, he&#8217;d say he had meant something else when he said wasted time. No, I&#8217;m pretty sure that the jello in my head is related to what Chuck is talking about.  Reality television, while clearly not an inspiration to my creativity, is more than that, distracting me from the hard work of actually sitting down and getting it all out. Getting out all those mediocre sentences.  Painting that so-so canvas.  Singing those few bars out of key.  Taking that ridiculously cliche photo. If I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emerge &#124; New Theme</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So many sights and sounds on the way to go running, last night. The trees, so coy, were showing off the bits and bobs of their first spring wardrobes.  Buds dusting trees as if like glitter.  Such show offs. Oh, the smells! Sweet floral fragrance danced around me. One second there and disappearing the next to somewhere else entirely.  It was also warm enough last night (61 folks! Yeah, to California folks, I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s nothing &#8211; but we&#8217;ll take it!) that I caught a couple whiffs of the charcoal of a backyard barbecue. Yes. &#160; On down I traveled towards the lake, passing the donut shop &#8211; pumping the smell of it&#8217;s frosted vegan goodness into the atmosphere.  More plants showing off.  Is that jasmine?  Wait, now it smells like coffee.  It was as if I had stumbled into a party that had no official invite, but was glad to have me all the same.  All that had been shut up, barren, cold, and yearning and churning inside the last few winter months was now starting to&#8230;. Emerge. Looking up this months theme I found these scattered definitions: 1)Move out of or away from something and come into view [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Face to Face</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alone + Together]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the last post of this month and the theme Alone + Together, and I can&#8217;t begin to tell you how many different posts I&#8217;d like to squeeze into this one. If we were together &#8211; like the theme suggests &#8211; face to face, I&#8217;d make you a I strong cup of coffee (or water or tea or beer or whisky, if that&#8217;s your pleasure) and&#8230; &#8230;tell you that it might sound cheesy, but I learn so much about what community looks like from the show&#8230;The New Girl.  Yep, you heard me right. And regardless of your personal views of Ms. Deschanel&#8217;s bangs, I would wax poetic about the time all the roommates helped Jess pick up all her stuff, the time they all chipped in and paid for Nick&#8217;s doctor visit, pulled together a party bus for Schmidt (seriously). Oh, and don&#8217;t get me going on when the gang went to Candy Cane lane! Cause no matter how different they all are or how heated the conflict gets &#8211; in the end they are always willing to show up and be present when it really counts &#8211; rooting for the other person. &#8230;ask you if you&#8217;ve experienced this.  I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midday Merton // Lost &amp; Found</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alone + Together]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Now is the time to see what great strength comes out of silence &#8211; and not without struggle. Obedience to God means, first of all, waiting, having to wait, sustine Dominum &#8211; waiting for the Lord.  The first thing then is to accept the fact that one will have to wait.  Otherwise obedience is undermined by an implicite condition that destroys it. To say that I am a child of God is to say, before everything else&#8230; &#8230;that I grow. That I begin. A child who does not grow becomes a monster.  The idea &#8220;Child of God&#8221; is therefore one of living growth, becoming, possibility, risk, and joy, in the negotiation of risk.  In this God is pleased: that His child grows in wisdom and grace. God is the Father who fights to defend and rescue His child.  The life of the Child of God is not in the &#8220;development of spirituality&#8221; but in obedience to the Good Shepherd who seeks him, knowing he is lost.  It is in solitude that we recognize, with a shock, how lost we have been, and that now we are found, rescued, recovering conscience, returning to ourselves, to Truth, carried by Him who has sought [...]]]></description>
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