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To Love and Be Loved
by Linda Carter Holman O
bserving a painting by Linda Carter Holman is like opening a good book, filled with colorful characters and descriptive narrative. A masterful storyteller, Carter Holman draws on life experiences from her birth in a small town in Oklahoma, a childhood in Venezuela and her adult life in the southwestern United States. Her gift for creating characters in settings that celebrate life is evident in all phases of her painting. “I have often had the feeling that the paintings have a life of their own,” she muses. “Their stories seem to reveal themselves to me on my canvas, as they choose, in their own time.”
Primarily a painter of women, the artist is well known for her depictions of Latin ladies and cowgirls. “I like to think of my women as the Quan Yins of the West; compassionate and combining the masculine and feminine intelligence and beauty,” she explains. Carter Holman chronicles her life’s
work in her book, Evolution of a Self- Taught Painter, a history of her paintings from the 1970s to today. View the artist’s portfolio at Carter
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Broward County
uly is our traditional month to celebrate the founding fathers and this nation. It’s interesting to hear all the rhetoric surrounding nationalism and who’s the best, or who’s the top super power. There should be no top, nor bottom. We are all basically equidistant from the core of this great planet, living together near the thin surface layer. We are simply part of this great inter- connected system of plants, animals, insects, microorganisms - matter. Okay, it’s great to have our flag up and be proud of what we’ve created. My pride is from knowing that I do my part to make it a harmonious and balanced environment. I do my part to bring community together. I do my part to educate and share with others. We are the role models for freedom; I’m for supporting a sustainable lifestyle. I support equal rights. I think globally. I believe each of us has a duty to speak our truth and be in our power. Gulf thoughts get me bogged
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down, if only for a moment. It’s a bummer for sure to have this catastrophe in our “pristine” backyard. I focus on the greater good that is coming out of this. I support interconnected solutions. I suspect that the better approach to the solutions (and there are so many issues here that haven’t yet hit the mainstream media) is to have a myriad of companies, countries and people involved. It’s an international event. This is the ocean’s organic system we’re talking about. Water matters. I think of the living things that call water home. Some of the products from the ocean are in my home. Salmon in the fridge and seaweed in the cabinet. I could be more mindful of buying more local goods. Since this month is a focus on natural foods, I will again place more emphasis on shopping locally for my produce. Much is from California and South America. In Florida we have a
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growing season that’s not cut off for months by the long cold winter, but it has its challenges too... the storms, occasional bouts of freezing in early mornings, and the excessive heat. As the summer heat started to set in, June ended up a season of locally grown produce that prefers the cooler weather. July’s local foods include the melons, mangos and potatoes.
My diet is currently more
simplified yet more diverse. I am choosing a wider variety of foods, yet the combinations of foods are more simplistic. I am re-educating myself about food combinations and remind myself that the melons are to be eaten by themselves. Recently, I enjoyed several meals of just watermelon, conjuring up memories of my young childhood and sharing the melons with my siblings, not caring if the drips ended up on me or my clothes! Last month I mentioned the portrait
I was asked to paint. It’s featured below. The fun was capturing his powerful, charming spirit and caring heart. Enjoy.
Share your power; plan on it.
Susan Q Wood Publishing Editor
“Junior”
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