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ugust is our month Eckels, page 29. What is
to focus on the next our legacy? Again, it’s
generation. The education. No matter what
importance of passing on the issue is, it’s the idea of
a torch that is surrounded focusing on what it is we
by love and light cannot want to see changed, using
be overstressed. Our our imagination to take the
children are growing up first step toward that which
in a world that is quite we aspire, then taking the
different from the one in action. It’s as hard, it’s as
Eve–
which we grew up. Recent easy, as that.
Expectations
experiences with children In January 2007 I had
have given me much hope; one of those moments
Sandra bierman I feel that the next generation is being while listening to Kandee G. I finally
given many tools necessary to effect integrated a phrase that I had heard a
S
andra Bierman, grandmother of
positive changes in our neighborhood. ‘zillion’ times’ before. It was only when
five, was born in 1938 in Brooklyn,
The older children have a more global I infused it into my soul fiber and took
New York, but from age four grew
perspective on life due much, I believe, a tiny step of action that my world
up in Oklahoma, Texas and Maryland.
to the technology of the internet. Access changed. Prior to that it was only mind
Her father was a Swedish immigrant and
her mother a Texas farm girl. She was
to stories from around the world has babble... playing around with the
nurtured as a child by her part-Cherokee
become the norm. Sorting through the concept in my head and imagining that
grandmother. Sandra and her husband
plethora of information is a skill that is it could work. The only thing that had
have lived in Boulder, Colorado since being cultivated in our youth. We are changed was that I had taken that first
1988.
in a renaissance of our own and it’s an step. For me, that step was verbalizing,
Art scholarships began at age 11.
exciting time filled with its own set of from my heart, a concept of personal
Now her oils are widely collected and are
challenges and rewards. reality — integrating into my personal
published and distributed worldwide.
Our children are surely following dialogue the “speaking as if” factor.
Sandra’s paintings often depict
grounded women with bare, earthy feet
our example of being better stewards I share my experiences to assist
and large, caring hands.
of the land and being concerned more others who are noticing they too are
“The women may be cradling a child,
about our own personal and spiritual on the brink of ‘eureka’ moments. The
getting solace from a cat or washing their health. We see the trend in the personal process prior to the eureka is called by
hair in the rain —reflections from my
wellness industry — now reaching some as ‘the phase of saturation’ — we
own life,” she says. “In a way, the whole
beyond into the global wellness industry. saturate ourselves with input to such a
painting is a self-portrait from the inside,
With that comes a whole new set of point that finally it all gels and we find
out.”
fabulous challenges to take our mistakes the answer. It’s so profound a moment
For the sake of important elements
in her work, she often exaggerates or
and learn from them to create a more that we are compelled to act.
distorts shapes and lines to enhance the
sustainable and cleaner tomorrow. A similar thing happened with
overall flow and composition.
The biggest challenge — OK, there is respect to me getting back into
“I apply the paint, but it is a struggle perspective here — is pollution/waste. painting... a single event that compelled
to not get in the way of the process as it
Yes, there are big items to address on me to get out the paint brushes I had set
unfolds. It works best if the vision guides
our ‘to do’ list, like poverty. Both will be aside for more than five years... but that’s
me, not I guide it.”
addressed through global education and another story.
a shifting of thought.
To view more of the artist’s work,
visit SandraBierman.com.
There are indeed many aspects to Expect the eureka moments;
the challenges. One such discussion plan on it.
centering around education is the
integration of unstructured creative
time and using ‘open-ended materials,’ Susan Q Wood
as discussed in the article by Casey Owner and Publisher
10 Broward County
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