So many reminders lately to trust my heart. The Greeks had a word for the heart’s ability to perceive meaning from the world: aesthesis. “…the organ of aisthesis is the heart; passages from all the sense organs run to it; there the soul is “set on fire.” It’s thought is innately aesthetic and sensately linked with the world.”From The Secret Teachings of Plants by Stephen Harrod Buhner. “Aisthesis” 14”x10”…#practice #sketchbook #heart #cometoyoursenses #24Kgold #goldleaf #24K #studiolife #craypas #watercolor #kintsugi #kintsukuroi #metaphor #mixedmediaart #experimentalart #artistpov #pdxartists #pdxart #abstract #art #dailyinspiration  #pdxartist #artistthoughts #aesthesis #greeks #philosophy #meaning #vero