Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Angels in Nebraska revisited

I ran across this story in my files, and felt like sharing it. 

In 2005 I was driving across Nebraska from an east coast residency, and stopped in tiny Cozad to visit the Robert Henri Museum, and the 100th Meridian Museum, which I just couldn't resist.   The founder of the "Ash Can" school of American realism, Robert Henri was born there, and apparently never went back,  preferring New York City and Paris to Nebraska.  Cozad forgives him.

I remember, afterwards, sitting in a diner and fretting as usual about what to do with my life.  I know I was doing this, because I have it on paper in my journal.  I also remember looking up at a flashing sign on the bank across the street.

That got my attention.





 "I let my life be guided by a strange language that I call “signs”. I know that the world is talking to me, I need to listen to it, and if I do so I shall always be guided towards what is most intense, passionate and beautiful. Of course, it is not always easy.  If you trust life, life will trust you."

        Paolo Coelho
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9 comments:

  1. Trish and Rob MacGregorFebruary 23, 2011 at 6:13 PM

    Wow! This one is pretty amazing, Lauren. Talk about a direct message!

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  2. Trish and Rob MacGregorFebruary 23, 2011 at 8:04 PM

    OK, I'm haunted by this one. May we repost it??

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  3. NatalieFebruary 24, 2011 at 1:16 AM

    I love this Lauren! I follow signs too, and it is not always easy, but it is always worth it. :)



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    ads to grow! No way! another sign!!!!!o

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  4. Lauren RaineFebruary 24, 2011 at 6:06 AM

    Hey, thanks! MacGregors - Of course you may repost anything......I'm a great admirer of your work. Thanks Natalie - "signs" are kind of like touchstones along the path, the inner poetic. I don't know what I'd do without them......glad to meet a fellow traveller.

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  5. Trish and Rob MacGregorFebruary 24, 2011 at 3:21 PM

    Thanks,Lauren! OK if we use your pics, too? They tell the story. Now off to look @ your video.

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  6. d pageFebruary 24, 2011 at 11:34 PM

    Wonderful! The timeing couldn't have been more perfect. A moment of living art.

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  7. Lauren RaineFebruary 25, 2011 at 8:24 AM

    Thanks, glad to share the pictures. It was such a funny thing to encounter - I had fun, being an artist after all, putting them into black and white. The "green light" I just had to leave, along with the green tree.

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  8. Trish MacGregorFebruary 25, 2011 at 11:37 AM

    lauren - just to let u know our email and the blog were hacked and the blog was taken over by a skeptic named paul

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  9. kathykJune 9, 2018 at 11:02 AM

    Love this! it's great to see the photos after hearing the story...

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