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Greg Lippert and Robert Haydon Jones

Greg Lippert and Robert Haydon Jones

Light at the end of the tunnel Inspiration By Greg Lippert Awake! Response By Robert Haydon Jones ©2018 RHJA, LLC. All Rights Reserved When Bud Monroe, his cardiologist, told Jimmy O’Hara his …

 

Robert Haydon Jones and Greg Lippert

Robert Haydon Jones and Greg Lippert

The Last Out Response By Greg Lippert Curtains Inspiration By Robert Haydon Jones ©2018 RHJA, LLC. All Rights Reserved For five years now, every six months, Jimmy O’ Hara would visit his Cardiologist …

 

Bridget Fahey O’Brien and Annmarie Lockhart

Bridget Fahey O’Brien and Annmarie Lockhart

Bridget Fahey O’Brien Reciprocity Inspiration Piece Photo Opp Annmarie Lockhart Response Alright, babe. Selfie time! Smile for the camera! Say mozzarella! Check it, this light totally brings out my eyes. I’m definitely posting this. I’m …

 

Ray Sharp and Jennifer Fendya

Ray Sharp and Jennifer Fendya

Jennifer Fendya — “tugged-tied truths” – pencil on paper Response Ray Sharp  Inspiration To Resist We are tugged by the polemics of push and pull As if truth itself could be tied …

 

Ray Sharp and Jennifer Fendya

Ray Sharp and Jennifer Fendya

Ray Sharp — Ice Storm Inspiration   Jennifer Fendya Response   I’ve been dreaming of flying again,   of pushing clouds over a frozen lake, down to where trees along the shoreline stick out their …

 

KJ Hannah Greenberg and Nancy Ramsey

KJ Hannah Greenberg and Nancy Ramsey

Enigma by KJ Hannah Greenberg Response   Enigma by Nancy Ramsey Inspiration Piece   Every line I write Hides more Every word Another brick Each expression Hides me further Emotion cloaked in Confusion.     Note: All of the art, writing, and …

 

Nancy Ramsey and KJ Hannah Greenberg

Nancy Ramsey and KJ Hannah Greenberg

KJ Hannah Greenberg-Sunset Inspiration Piece   Orange by Nancy Ramsey Response   Orange dips between the rise. Neutral back Drops to layers. Yellow, blue streak. Reflect back for review. Sky sees itself A tempered view.     Note: All of the …

 

Gabby Holden and Hildie S Block

Gabby Holden and Hildie S Block

Diana K Sharp “I’m Right Here”  water color and mixed media Response   The Lunchroom Hildie S Block Inspiration piece         —————————————————— Note: All of the art, writing, and music on this site …

 

Karen Lee Lewis and Tora Estep

Karen Lee Lewis and Tora Estep

TORA ESTEP, BLINDED BY THE GODDESS Inspiration piece   KAREN LEE LEWIS Response   Ground Truth after Tora Estep’s “Blinded by the Goddess”   We are one, after all, you and I, together we …

 

Marilyn Ackerman and Michelle Greco

Marilyn Ackerman and Michelle Greco

    Origin Story By Michelle Greco Inspiration piece I’m from a neighborhood where kids put you in a schoolyard headlock in third grade. I’m from stained glass. Jesus looks down on everyone—melancholy. I’m from …

 

Cecilia Driscoll and Jane Hulstrunk

Cecilia Driscoll and Jane Hulstrunk

  Jane Hulstrunk “Out for a walk” Inspiration   Cecilia Driscoll Response “Wood Pause” in a mountain wood i learned to love the road pavement leading surely home along the golden vanishing i learned to love the …

 

Jane Hulstrunk and Cecilia Driscoll

Jane Hulstrunk and Cecilia Driscoll

Jane Hulstrunk “Wall of Windows” Response Cecilia Driscoll “My House” Inspiration My house is pastel pink and ivory like the inside of a seashell like new skin and pale blushing. My house is made of wood a …

 

Kathleen Finn Jordan and Tora Estep

Kathleen Finn Jordan and Tora Estep

  Tora Estep Inspiration Piece The Red Coat Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Apprehensive called into service surprisingly guest lecturer to an incoming freshman class I look at myself in the mirror and wonder If …

 

Jackie Fishman and Lisa Kilhefner

Jackie Fishman and Lisa Kilhefner

Colors and Spaces The spaces between our words are always there Two can never be one Even a child born must leave her mother’s oneness And at that moment, …

 

Karin Edgett and Michelle Greco

Karin Edgett and Michelle Greco

Karin Edgett, mixed media on paper response Lady Red By Michelle Greco Inspiration piece Let me live in you, embody your spirit, loud and unflinching. Let me wear you on my wedding day, …

 

Mary Hill and Bauke Kamstra

Mary Hill and Bauke Kamstra

Mary Hill  response   Wild Tree    A tree in a place where the wind ever blows is a different kind of tree.   The tree never moves, it is moved the wind never rests, …

 

Lisa Lipkind Leibow and Amy Fullman

Lisa Lipkind Leibow and Amy Fullman

Aimee Fullman Inspiration Piece   How Barnaby Becomes a Bond Slave Lisa Lipkind Leibow Response That night, after sharing a pint with a few blokes at the public house on the …

 

Jane Souza Hulstrunk and Caroline Davies

Jane Souza Hulstrunk and Caroline Davies

Photograph by Jane Souza Hulstrunk Icy Morning Inspiration Piece Caroline M. Davies “Ice prints” Response Ice prints Each winter my brother and I would wait for the tell-tale signs. Jack and Jill Frost’s pitter-patter of …

 

Lisa Nielsen and Kaylee Savage-Wright

Lisa Nielsen and Kaylee Savage-Wright

  Kaylee Savage-Wright Response Lisa Nielsen Inspiration Piece Damaged Goods He has insinuated himself into my breath, ravaging my desire for freedom Just to maintain takes every ounce of sorrow, is our newest game but …

 

Jay Young Gerard and Lisa Nielsen

Jay Young Gerard and Lisa Nielsen

Jay Young Gerard Inspiration Piece Self-Infliction multi-media (oils, pastels, collage, canvas affixed to foam board) Lisa Nielsen Response Glistening Like Whitewash The molten lava of your ambiguous soul reaches across the counter to …

 

Aimee Fullman and Kathleen Jordan

Aimee Fullman and Kathleen Jordan

An Eye Towards Winter by Aimee Fullman Inspiration Piece Brushed Blue by Kathleen Jordan Like a lint Roller the wind Picks up leaves and earth and the tiny delicate last …

 

Barbara Kongsbak and Lisa Nielsen

Barbara Kongsbak and Lisa Nielsen

Barbara Kongsbak Inspiration Piece Lisa Nielsen Response Swimming without water my hips, unconfined celebrate my thighs cradle lullabies and my arms, orchestrate a clever river with leftover tears This is hopefulness after heartache has …

 

Adam Cornford and Tora Estep

Adam Cornford and Tora Estep

  Tora Estep La Traicionada Cartas intolerables rodean su cabeza se convierten en alas electrocutadas en albanicos de hueso que se despliegan frente de sus ojos ahora de plata helada que reflejan …

 

Caroline Davies and Traci Robison

Caroline Davies and Traci Robison

Traci Robison Sienna Boy Inspiration piece Boy Playing By Caroline Davies Response   Boy playing   Go out and play, my parents were forever saying. You need more fresh air. You have to be …

 

Linda M. Rhinehart Neas and Rebecca Parker

Linda M. Rhinehart Neas and Rebecca Parker

Photo: Fish Out of Water, Columbus, Ohio 2012, Rebecca Parker INSPIRATION PIECE Angler’s Meditation By Linda M. Rhinehart Neas The water, barely warmed by the rising sun, moves in ripples …