Kayleen Asbo, Ph.D
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Earth Art

Gratitude Mandala for Robin O'Brien

3/23/2021

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I call my dear friend Robin O'Brien the "bard of my heart". We have collaborated on maybe a hundred events together, ranging from dozens upon dozens of Taize services from the American Cathedral in Paris to Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, fifteen years of Advent Benedictine retreats at Bshop's Ranch  and workshops  ranging from Hildegard of Bingen  to Mary Oliver.  I love giving her an "assignment" . I tell her a story about the lecture I am going to give, and she writes a song in response. Here is one of my favorites, inspired by Catherine of Siena: The More I Love. 
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    Kayleen Asbo

    Musician, mythologist, Cultural Historian, perpetual pilgrim and aspiring Earth Artist .
    For years, I have been moved by the works of Scottish land artist Andy Goldsworthy, but it has only been this past year of Covid  when I turned to creating art in nature as a way to help me deal with fear, depression and anxiety.  Partly informed by my studies of alchemy and  Medieval architecture and sacred geometry, I began to create objects from the simple materials foraged from my yard and on daily walks in the woods near my home. 

    . May they ignite your own imagination  inspire you to see what is possible  with what is right at hand. What is a weed? What is a flower? It is often only in the eye of the beholder. as my first mandala for Lent taught  me.  This practice has been a good reminder that  beauty is ALWAYS possible, if only we have the eyes to see.  

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Contact Kayleen Asbo: mythicamuse@gmail.com
  • Home
  • Pilgrimages
    • From Grief to Garden: Holy Week with Mary Magdalene
    • Glastonbury and May Day
    • Mystical Scotland >
      • Beginning Your Pilgrimage
      • Celtic Knots and Illuminated Manuscripts
  • Heroines
    • Esclarmonde of Foix
    • Ariadne's Thread
    • The Map of the Heroine's Path
    • The Art of Lamentation: Isis and Nepthys
    • The Tasks of Psyche
  • Classes
    • Anchored in the Heart >
      • Week One: Drinking From the Well of Virtue
      • Week Two
      • Week Three: Music and Divine Office
      • Week Four: Images and Visions
      • Week Five: Julian of Norwich and Lectio Divina
      • Week 6: Time and Seasons
    • Dante Retreat >
      • Welcome letter
      • Session One: Love, Loss and Longing
      • Session Two: Hot Sins
      • Session Three: Where Our Hearts Grow Cold
      • Session Four: Arriving on the Shores of Humility
      • Session Five: Returning to Innocence
    • 22 Days of Magdalene
    • The Mystic Path and Poetry of T.S. Eliot >
      • Week One: Prophet of Despair
      • Week Two: Beethoven, Dante and Eliot
      • Burnt Norton
      • East Coker
      • Dry Salvages
      • Little Gidding
    • Mary Magdalene and the Movies >
      • Mary Magdalene and the Movies Code
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