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when your heart aches
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when your heart aches

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Aug 30, 2024
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Ache. Acrylic on canvas. August 12, 2018

This was a project in a Holding Space course I was taking. The prompt was ‘use your fingers and hands and paint ache in your body’. This is the image that emerged.

My heart ached then.

And, in so many ways, my heart aches now. Some of those reasons are the same, while others are new.

As we open up into more heart-bas…

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