Comments on: three native american prayers

By: Barbara Vroman

Barbara Vroman — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:13:36 +0000

Thank you for these gifts of the spirit. I will copy the night chant to hang in my own office for the benevolence it engenders, the blessings of someone I never knew, from someone I do know and love. I want one of your wild,
phantasmogogal (this is not a wrong spelling it is a word I made up for your unique paintings) art works to hang with it. Why don’t you reproduce your
paintings and sell them as prints we could afford? Bet you’d sell a bundle.

By: Jean

Jean — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 04:19:06 +0000

There is a striking similarity between the Navajo night prayer and St. Patrick’s Breastplate Prayer with Beauty being replaced by Christ. The marvelous connection between the minds of men….

By: s/v Paradox

s/v Paradox — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 02:24:44 +0000

real good painting … still have your paints?

By: Kris

Kris — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:32:45 +0000

Walk in Beauty, Friend.

By: David Dix sr

David Dix sr — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:31:23 +0000

From a Door Co.coop-ed one
a Christmas gift is given
In my hands I will cradle my own
Taos bowl tonight and tomorrow;
Mine temporarily
then gone

By: Donald O'Donovan

Donald O'Donovan — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:18:08 +0000

Beautiful. I particularly like the first one by John Lame Deer. If the Christmas shoppers (or should I say Xmas shoppers?) now storming the shopping malls could read this they might say to themselves, “What do I need with all this glittery junk?” Might, I say. Maybe.

The art is superlative. I freely confess that I’m, now doing a series of watercolors “after Norbert Blei,” because this is precisely the effect I am aiming for.

Now all I have to do is stop aiming.

By: Jackie

Jackie — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:38:32 +0000

Beautiful; I used to have a “daily book” of Native American prayers and sayings and my heart was more peaceful for it. Thanks for sharing.

By: Mrs. Ticket

Mrs. Ticket — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:58:21 +0000

Thank you for this–especially the third one. I will say it Sunday and Monday nights for sure.

By: Ray Foreman

Ray Foreman — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:12:27 +0000

Norb, sometimes my brain is so loaded with words, I feel like I’m frozen solid and look for heat from something, anything, to let me breathe. Then I look at your painting/drawings and the colors and scribblings let me walk out of the room at my own pace and I am free. I’m sure you understand. Ray

By: Alice D'Alessio

Alice D'Alessio — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:18:13 +0000

A lovely feel to the chant, a simplicity, an evocation that covers all the really important things. Simplify, simplify. Get all this clutter out of my head!
Thank you for sending this for those of us in need!