Comments on: Star Story: A visual tale about encountering difference

By: Christine Martell

Christine Martell — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:19:00 +0000

So lovely to read your appreciations! Now I just have to allow myself to spend more time painting….

By: Sue Hickton

Sue Hickton — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 02:55:21 +0000

Hi Christine

Just dropped by to see what you are up to. Loving some of this work. It is such a gift to be able to express yourself like this, art. I think the same thing about those that can sing or play music as well. Hope things are going well and the universe is being kind

Love Sue

By: Mari Alexander

Mari Alexander — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:04:44 +0000

Is anything really definitive? Isn’t possibility what keeps doors & hearts open and creative juices flowing? We so often lock ourselves in with “how things are” or “how they ought to be”…no malice intended…maybe just need to know to feel safe and secure…does it work? I think of “flowers go into vases…then sometimes flowers go into vases, sometimes they flourish in the ground, sometimes they end up in little boys hands enveloped in a grip of curiousity. . .

So as I continually grow larger deeper eyes to see with I may see life unfold, moment to moment “differently”… with change I feel possibility, with possibility I feel hope, joy and excitement….it is “Living Large”.

Some of you will nod and some will say, “what” and some will feel lost and some will hold on to stars, others to moons, and others will have a garden overflowing with all the elements in full bloom.

Thank you Christine for showing me such a vibrant and beautiful mirror of possibility. I cried when I as I read and watched it.

Mari

By: Marcela

Marcela — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:13:47 +0000

I have come back to the story, and… It´s beautiful!!
Just like for the stars and moons, the only way to “merge” is by revisiting, resharing, relistening, relearning…over and over again…
Thanks!

By: Apple

Apple — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:20:10 +0000

These are beautiful!!!

By: Christine Martell

Christine Martell — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:05:24 +0000

Nice to meet you Marcela. I would very much like to hear how the set works for you in South America. It is used in many other parts of the world, but I haven’t heard much from Latins yet, and I’m interested.

I must have made the moon background too subtle. I agree with you taking one would absolutely not be understanding one another (although way too common many places.) It’s a bit more obvious in the original, but perhaps it needs even more delineation? I don’t want the message to be that the stars get their way!

By: Christine Martell

Christine Martell — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:00:09 +0000

Thanks for the appreciation Kelly!

By: Marcela Castagnino

Marcela Castagnino — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:37:28 +0000

Hi Christine,
I´m a trainer and consultant in Argentina and got to know you through HRDQ. I attended your Webinar and bought the set. I got it last week and I´m looking forward to implementing it. I think it´s fantastic, I had been working with images for a long time, but yours are perfect! I´ll soon let you know how latins respond to them…
Regarding the Star Story, I must say I love the drawings. The impact they produce is very strong and I love the backgrounds, though I feel sorry for the moon…it had no intention to harm, just like most times in real life…It had a different point of view and we shouldn´t judge either as right or wrong…
I also see you have left out the background design for the moons at the end…that is not merging…it is taking one side as the correct one…
why not trying to understand what each one feels and learn from each other to produce a different output…
Hope it helps!!!
Thanks so much for sharing!!!

By: Kelly Parkinson

Kelly Parkinson — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:57:05 +0000

Oh, wow, this is so beautiful, Christine. I love the simplicity of the language and how there’s this mix of vulnerability and power. And the gorgeous colors! Thank you so much.