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When Heather Sanderson and Janet Morgan sat down for a podcast interview an hour flew by. Heather's natural curiosity and skill at listening brought out many stories from a long life in art. Here they have added more than eighty images of Janet's work to bring the words and stories to life. Inspired by a podcast conversation between Janet Morgan and Heather Sanderson, this book explores what art is and what it can do both personally and collectively. Janet talks about her creative process and shares the wisdom that making and teaching art has brought to her (and to others through her). In exploring the outrageous, the foolish, and the divine, Janet shares how some of her best work started with a failure, rejection, and/or making a mess and what that means in art and in life! She also shares a vision of the healing and inclusive power of art, especially to build community. Worksheets to aid in creating your own deity, commitments to your art, and other calls to action are included to make this book an immersive and interactive experience, so that you can contribute to the conversation in your own way. Together, the future is possible!

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""Morgan's images display our own felt electricity, the crackling auras and fields that we know for sure are there, not just from new scientific sensors, but from the way our bodies so often feel. We are not only stardust, but wild patterned energy, dust devils swirling through space for just a time."" -Kim Stanley Robinson, award-winning science-fiction author

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Heather Sanderson has created 20+ plant and tree spirit short reads in the ""Dreaming with the Plants Series,"" 5+ books in ""The Future is Possible"" series, a collection of poetry, several podcast episodes, hundreds of yoga classes and workshops, reiki trainings, and plant spirit offerings. Trained in many healing arts disciplines, she focuses on bringing her magic and medicine to the world and encourages others to do the same. Artist and author Janet Morgan has painted all over the world, from Kyrgyzstan to Antarctica. During the pandemic she turned to her own city, Brooklyn, and especially Coney Island, for inspiration. For 18 years she was an Expressive Arts Therapist with adult cancer patients and Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and she has taught at the Art Students League and the Rubin Museum of Art in New York. She create a pantheon of 200 deities in large water media, and a large body of work called the Energy Bodies about the energy we carry with us.She has been artist-in-residence in Death Valley National Park, Weir Farm National Historic Site, the Babayan Cultural Center in Cappadocia, Turkey, the Omega Institute, She complete a public art commission for an Early Childhood Center in Queens, New York, and her large paintings of deities new and traditional (8 x 8 feet) have been featured at Omega's Women and Power Conference, at Burning Man and the Parliament of World Religions.

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