This girl, she knows how to capture a feeling in a photograph. Check out Danica Myer’s photos from last week’s Pie, Piano and Poetry night here. If you need a photographer, e-mail her!
Pie, Piano, and Poetry III
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Pie, Piano, Poetry, Paintings and Preciousness
Northeast Minneapolis, Minnesota
What Was I Thinking?
Tonight showcased some absolutely beautiful spirits at Pie, Piano, and Poetry–Minneapolis Chapter (pan). I drove up to the city after a long 4/20 day at school and a longer night previous filling out paperwork. Tired was not an adequate description to my state upon parking my car. But after some laughter, hugs, coconut cream, key lime, quotidian icons, emotional presence, homemade butterflies, fresh songs, fresh tries, and heart to heart discussion-confession, I drove home with lots of popping in my mind.
I can’t remember all the thoughts I had, but here are a few:
You gave my songs life again.
Privacy is special.
Satisfaction is enough.
Waiting to speak brings soft words. Marinate in silence.
I want your songs to have life again.
I want you to have life.
How shall we stop-animate?
Porches. Porches. Porches.
Mandolins. Guitars. Dueling keyboards.
Tambourine.
Don’t be frustrated with yourself. Accept yourself. Accept your work. Accept your heart. Accept your creative voice. Listen.
Be gentle. Be gentile. Be honest.
No rush.
Pie, Piano, and Poetry II
After months of joyously watching my sister carry on our Pie, Piano, and Poetry traditions in Indiana, around Christmas I grew eager enough to go out on a limb. I realized that soulful photographer and hostess of Urban Porch Songs, Danica Myers, would be the perfect collaborator for an event in Northeast Minneapolis. I e-mailed her like it was 2001.
We started making plans sometime in January and ended up with a house full of beautiful hearts on Friday, February 25, 2011. The Minnesota chapter of Pie, Piano, and Poetry is officially an excellent idea.
Visit Danica’s blog for more reflections and photos of the evening’s sharing. Then, dear friends, go, create, share.
(Do feel free to share your art here, if you wish, by the way.)
Naphtalia 