Natural Medley: June 2021

30 June 2021

BeautyScope 457: City dance

sitting in my treehouse bedroom

watching the traffic dance

as it swishes

and sways

around corners

seeing the skatepark ballet

of courage

and near misses

gazing for hours

at the tiny construction ants

as they pull a building

from the ground

I feel privileged

beyond measure

to have this life

28/6/21

18 June 2021

Green eyes

Recently I discovered my dark brown eyes

Are partly green

How has this happened?

Have they faded with age

Or have I become more aware?

Once I went to an eye appointment

Where he photographed my eye

And exclaimed in amazement

At it’s beauty

So maybe my eyes hold surprises

As a consequence

I find myself being drawn

To wearing more green

Which was never a favourite

I was a blue girl

But now my blue is skewing to teal

And turquoise

Moving through bottle green

And landing in olive

I have been dealing lately

With a lot of thoughts about death

And life

And I find this green obsession

Fits nicely

Draping myself more and more

With the colour of life

As I prepare myself

To become more intimate

With nature

With the earth.

19/6/21

And here I am with my dark green eyes, wearing olive green in my new haircut!

Til next time,

Keep on creating!

Lots of love,

Jazzy Jack

3 June 2021

A Foraging Life

Greetings friends!

I return to regale you with some of my foraging experiences.

Recently I’ve been reading a fascinating book from the library called ‘The Foraged Home’.

Where people regularly forage the natural world for items to decorate their homes.

Even down to foraging for seaweed and making beautiful artworks. (Seems like a cold job!)

It’s made me realise how much this is a natural style for me. Others might laugh at my lack of knowledge of myself. As a I look back on all my experimenting with dye and my collecting of leaves and feathers.

Here are some photos of my experiments and my collecting.

In our current house we have a wall behind the kitchen which I’ve decorated with random leaves and feathers collected on walks.

I made a little hanging artwork out of feathers which was going to be the first of many and I was going to place them in the trees in the park during Winter to delight passers by. I only ever made one and I liked it too much to let it go. So it now hangs on my buffet door.