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[2011-07-29 18:33:37 +0000 UTC]
"Leanna Stead"
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 60; Deviations: 58; Watchers: 22
Watching: 36; Pageviews: 8448; Comments Made: 538; Friends: 36
# Interests
Favorite bands / musical artists: Too many.Favorite books: Too many.
Favorite writers: Walt Whitman, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, Elizabeth Haydon, Terry Pratchett, Henry David Thoreau
Tools of the Trade: Pencils, images, camera, computer, books, music
Other Interests: Writing poetry, stories, and essays, reading, singing, drawing, photography, photomanipulation, digital painting and retouching
# About me
"Shape doesn't create shadow. Shadow creates shape. Without shadow, there is no depth or dimension. It's not something to be feared, but embraced." -- meI realized the crucial role of shadow when shading one of my recent drawings. After further thought, I realized it goes for much more than drawing. Have you ever considered what it really means to be "afraid of your own shadow"?
I was for quite some time in many ways, but am no longer. It's as Herbert says in Dune with the Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear:
"I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its
path."
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain."
(Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bene_Ges⦠)
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Something further that all of you might find interesting; I decided to post it after re-reading it again today. It is a quote from an essay I wrote six years ago.
"I have grown into a person who is driven by her need to create. I have become cognizant of my drive to write more and more over the years since my entry into adolescence. Now, fifteen years after my first recognized verse, I feel that I can finally begin to believe in myself as a composer -- not just as a poet, not just as a writer, not just as an essayist, but as one who composes using the rhythm and rhyme of her words as a musical scale, one who speaks in octaves and verses and sestinas, in iambs and feet and sentences and paragraphs, in lines and volumes to communicate the full breadth of her existence as something more than what she now perceives to be human. In living apart from humanity I have finally accepted that I no longer truly feel human per se, and have come to feel that that is truly okay. It's not a product of delusion. It's not a denial of biology. I recognize my heritage and my physical self for what they are. Yet my mind, my proclivity to description, to delving the deepest and highest possibilities of language in order to make some small attempt, however inherently limited, at describing my daily life exists as something beyond the purely physical. It is not purely biological. Nor is it purely mental or emotional. Rather, it is spiritually driven in a way that I am spiritually driven to survive, to create, to give birth to things greater and more lasting than myself, to populate an entire world with words of my own design and, in so doing, allow and enable others to do the same without fear."
Current Residence: North Carolina
# Comments
Comments: 34
Congratulations on getting joint first place in the following contest: [link]
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you are invited to come join my group.
RealmsOfInspiration
[link]
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Please check out this Pic and the Poems linked to it
[link]
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Many thanks for the 
Have a 
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*grin* You are very welcome!
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I hope you slept well and are having a good day dear
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My day was pretty good. I slept *too* well, as a matter of fact. I was rather late for work. ><
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well it is good that you slept well. but not so well that you were late to work. How are you now?
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BTW, the poem you included in your membership request is lovely. You should submit it to our Aki Saijiki Contest!
Sean
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Thank you! ^_^ I believe I will do that.
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Hi,
Welcome to the Haiku Club!
Please consider participating in our active events !
Members may only submit deviations for contests. Contributors enjoy expanded privileges.
Members are encouraged to explore the resources provided by the group and participate in group activities. Doing so, over time, may earn you Contributor status. See Group Roles for details.
Above all else we are here to cultivate and encourage each other while exploring Eastern poetry . So jump in head first and have fun!
Home of Eastern Poetry
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Thank you! I have already looked over some of the haiku resources. It's an amazing amount of information and I am looking forward to learning a very great deal! I did see the Group Roles post as well, but will review it again, as I am particularly interested in providing critiques and believe it contains a guide.
I'm pleased to be on board.
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Yeah... I'm fussing with journal skins trying to learn how to make them because I'm trying to avoid worrying too much about my best friend's baby.
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Thank you very much for the faves and kind comments
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Absolutely! I love your photos. Thank you so much for your comments on mine as well! I really appreciate your taking the time.
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Thanks! 
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You are so welcome! I love your shading style -- I want to be able to draw in that style as well one of these years.
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& ty for the watch
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Thanks you and I'm sure you will
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And thank you for the watch!
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You are quite welcome. ^_^
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