Comments on: If Pigs Had Wings… http://ganoksin.com/blog/noel/2010/08/30/if-pigs-had-wings/ What Passes for Wisdom in My World Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:02:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Vicki Kataja http://ganoksin.com/blog/noel/2010/08/30/if-pigs-had-wings/#comment-52 Vicki Kataja Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:58:15 +0000 http://noel.ganoksin.com/blogs/?p=46#comment-52 Thank you for posting this; it's quite inspirational, left me feeling uplifted. Thank you for posting this; it’s quite inspirational, left me feeling uplifted.

]]> By: maureen http://ganoksin.com/blog/noel/2010/08/30/if-pigs-had-wings/#comment-51 maureen Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:47:54 +0000 http://noel.ganoksin.com/blogs/?p=46#comment-51 i'm really happy i saw this on facebook this morning. i am also at a crossroads - with no clear definition of what is to come...........traversing the path alone, once again, with no firm idea of my direction. that you shared this, and i happened upon it, at this specific time leads me to believe that even though i am feeling lost and in unfamiliar territory, there are those i will "meet" along the way that will provide encouragement and hope to me. thanks for the dash of hope and in return, i wish you good will on your journey. i’m really happy i saw this on facebook this morning. i am also at a crossroads – with no clear definition of what is to come………..traversing the path alone, once again, with no firm idea of my direction. that you shared this, and i happened upon it, at this specific time leads me to believe that even though i am feeling lost and in unfamiliar territory, there are those i will “meet” along the way that will provide encouragement and hope to me. thanks for the dash of hope and in return, i wish you good will on your journey.

]]> By: Jenny Gow http://ganoksin.com/blog/noel/2010/08/30/if-pigs-had-wings/#comment-50 Jenny Gow Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:11:23 +0000 http://noel.ganoksin.com/blogs/?p=46#comment-50 I love the pigs. My particular obsession is with frogs. I have had an affinity with frogs since I was a child. I live in Australia and aboriginal friends have said that frogs must be my "dreaming" that is the spiritual quality associated with frogs in the natural world. Many years ago well before I finally started in jewelery I saw a display of Inca jewelery. The piece that most inspired me was a bracelet in the form of a chain of gold frogs. The lost wax casting, design and construction was exquisite. I finally started making jewelery after a period of massive change in my life -- my own near death experience, deaths in the family, coming to terms with my own gender and sexuality, leaving my job as a university lecturer and moving back to the city of my birth for my partner to take a job. Frogs symbolize to me the fragility of the natural world and our relationship with it. My jewelery is all based around casting using wax patterns sometimes combined with plant material to express the beauty of the natural world which nurtures us but which we are destroying. I have now made some frog bracelets -- I wear one, so does my partner and her mother. However I am yet to make THE frog bracelet. I still have to develop my skills further before I can make it. Keep pursuing those dreams. I love the pigs. My particular obsession is with frogs. I have had an affinity with frogs since I was a child. I live in Australia and aboriginal friends have said that frogs must be my “dreaming” that is the spiritual quality associated with frogs in the natural world. Many years ago well before I finally started in jewelery I saw a display of Inca jewelery. The piece that most inspired me was a bracelet in the form of a chain of gold frogs. The lost wax casting, design and construction was exquisite. I finally started making jewelery after a period of massive change in my life — my own near death experience, deaths in the family, coming to terms with my own gender and sexuality, leaving my job as a university lecturer and moving back to the city of my birth for my partner to take a job.

Frogs symbolize to me the fragility of the natural world and our relationship with it. My jewelery is all based around casting using wax patterns sometimes combined with plant material to express the beauty of the natural world which nurtures us but which we are destroying. I have now made some frog bracelets — I wear one, so does my partner and her mother. However I am yet to make THE frog bracelet. I still have to develop my skills further before I can make it.

Keep pursuing those dreams.

]]> By: Cadi http://ganoksin.com/blog/noel/2010/08/30/if-pigs-had-wings/#comment-49 Cadi Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:35:22 +0000 http://noel.ganoksin.com/blogs/?p=46#comment-49 Thank you. I needed this today. Thank you. I needed this today.

]]> By: Deborah Lee Taylor http://ganoksin.com/blog/noel/2010/08/30/if-pigs-had-wings/#comment-48 Deborah Lee Taylor Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:18:53 +0000 http://noel.ganoksin.com/blogs/?p=46#comment-48 This reminds me of a quote I read.."The will of God will not take you where the Grace of God will not protect you." Life is always changing..as I have learned..and struggled to except..but realized it is the one constant-and I feel, we as human beings, creative by nature-if we don't except change as it comes..our creative spirit goes to sleep(I think of the butterfly in its cocoon)...there is always a feeling of "something missing"...fear is a good thing when you challenge it and face it...like knowing in your heart creating jewelry is home to your soul...(that is how I felt when I took my first class)listening to your inner-self and just going for it-having the faith that every thing will work out and fall into place(life does work like this I'm realizing too!) So blessings to you.. And your flying pigs! (Do you make the little guys as charms or pendants btw? or earrings..how cute..like little angels on each of your shoulders! This reminds me of a quote I read..”The will of God will not take you where the Grace of God will not protect you.” Life is always changing..as I have learned..and struggled to except..but realized it is the one constant-and I feel, we as human beings, creative by nature-if we don’t except change as it comes..our creative spirit goes to sleep(I think of the butterfly in its cocoon)…there is always a feeling of “something missing”…fear is a good thing when you challenge it and face it…like knowing in your heart creating jewelry is home to your soul…(that is how I felt when I took my first class)listening to your inner-self and just going for it-having the faith that every thing will work out and fall into place(life does work like this I’m realizing too!) So blessings to you.. And your flying pigs! (Do you make the little guys as charms or pendants btw? or earrings..how cute..like little angels on each of your shoulders!

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]]> By: Elaine Luther http://ganoksin.com/blog/noel/2010/08/30/if-pigs-had-wings/#comment-45 Elaine Luther Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:48:11 +0000 http://noel.ganoksin.com/blogs/?p=46#comment-45 Great post. Thanks. Love what your husband said, a perfect description of grief. Great post. Thanks. Love what your husband said, a perfect description of grief.

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