NEWS *
-About Linda- ... :
Leading Humanity to new levels of awareness
is the powerful dynamic that inspires Linda Ohlson Graham's photography and writing.
She feels an intimate connection to the cosmos ...
because she spent thousands of miles with the night sky in view.
4 hours on ... 4 hours off ... sailing in the wind rooted her more deeply in her intention to be a catalyst (perhaps THE catalyst ...)
to WORLD PEACE and THE END to Global Warming.
During the years a dear friend and Linda spent together ... they sailed around the Bahamas ... the Caribbean ...
as well as Central and South America ... even offshore up to Cape Cod one spring and in the fall from there to the Virgin Islands.
While sailing the name © EARTH OCEAN HEAVENS came to Linda and she really felt she would publish a book some day by that name. At that time and while living in Denver, co-directing the J.M.W. Turner Museum with her former husband Douglass, she started writing poetry. After a near-death experience when Linda underwent -minor- brain surgery ... she began to write pages and pages about the consciousness on our planet lifting ... about Heaven in the here and now... with simple suggestions to Humanity about HOW Peace on Earth CAN BE ACHIEVED ... and HOW Global Warming CAN END.
It has been >t r u l y >fascinating for Linda to have this experience unfold.
Linda's photography is described as 'visuals of Light and Beauty in places and in people'. She's trying to create images that touch people very deeply within ... that might give them a still point ... or elicit a feeling they've never felt before.
Provincetown ARTS (within it's annual 2000/2001 edition) in an article titled 'The Earth, Ocean, and Heavens of Linda Ohlson Graham' stated: 'She expresses a profound interpretation of life as a magical, spiritual journey and inspires us to stop, take in the view, and savor a deep cleansing breath.'
Linda is proud to be a member in both arts and letters of the National League of American Pen Women ... to be a member of the International Women's Writing Guild ... Salt Wind Poets and the Serendipity of Women Poets on Cape Cod (MA)... Gulf Gate Poets in Sarasota. FL ... and to have been a member of Women Creating on Cape Cod and Women Contemporary Artists in Sarasota.
Also, in 1992, 93, and 95 Linda was listed in Who's Who in the West. In 1995 she was listed in Who's Who in America. In 1999 and 2005 she was listed in Who's Who in the World and ... she is included in Who's Who in American Women 2006-2007, Who's Who in American Women 2007, and (on Oct. 3, 2008 Linda was delighted to receive a letter that shared she has been chosen for) Who-s Who in American Women 2008-09.
Writing has been written -thru- Linda
which she feels with A L L of her Heart ...
has -T H E potential- to help to create W O R L D P E A C E ...
as well as ... calm thE Earth's atmosphere sufficiently enough to 'arrest' / bring >thE end to Global Warming- ... (in an enough minds -collected and focused together- ... heartbeat ... ).
* NEWS
Linda and friends have near completed building a 25' diameter labyrinth at Unity of Boulder.
Linda will share some of her 'HOW to create World Peace and bring .THE END. to Global Warming' writing/poetry during the Thanksgiving morning (10AM) service at Unity of Boulder ... 2855 Folsom St.
There was an -International Peace Day- celebration at the Boulder Band-shell Sept. 21st from 10-2pm. Linda was invited to share some of her poetry @ 1PM, and have her HOW to create World Peace and bring .THE END. to Global Warming + Global Visuals #4** exhibit displayed.
Linda received wonderful comments thruout the day re: her exhibit (which circled the back of the Band Shell). One friend came up to Linda, after she shared her poetry ... and said 'I wish 500 people had been here to hear what you shared Linda'.
Linda just had an exhibit ** #3 (Aug. 28th - Sept.27th) @ Trident Bookseller and Cafe.
On Sun. Aug. 3rd, 2008 ...just after Jack Groverland-s talk (both services at the Unity Church - Valmont and Folsum in Boulder, CO) Linda was asked to share some of her poetry/writing. She also had an exhibit: HOW to create World Peace and bring .THE END. to Global Warming + Global Visuals #2 during the -fellowship time- before and after both services ... with a reception in the afternoon from 1-3PM.
The Boulder Unity Church also invited Linda to share some of her -HOW to create World Peace and bring .THE END. to Global Warming- writing and poetry -as the opening prayer- at both the 9 and 11AM services: Sunday June 22nd.
On a Sunday in the spring (April 20th, 2008) the Boulder Unity Church invited Linda to be the 'Special Guest Artist' at both services. She shared other excerpts from her -HOW to create World Peace and bring .THE END. to Global Warming- writing and poetry. Linda also had a table in Fellowship Hall before and after both services and had her © WORLDS BEYOND WITHIN CD ... and a few of her © EARTH OCEAN HEAVENS photographs on view and available for sale.
On Saturday March 15, 2008 Linda was invited to share some of her poetry and writing re: HOW to create WORLD PEACE and bring .THE END. to Global Warming at thE -Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center rally<- at the Boulder, CO library. The rally commemorated the fifth anniversary of the occupation of Iraq. Linda received .wonderful comments. .and feedback. re: the words she shared.
Linda was invited to be part of a group exhibit @ Cafe Play - 1155 13th St. (on thE hill) - Boulder, CO ... beginning the evening of 10-5-07. The pieces she put together for the show were titled : -Global Visuals ... 1-. On the 1st of November, Linda was invited to keep her art up for another month ...
On the 1st of December, Linda was invited to keep her art up until mid-Jan., 2008! Linda was also told she could hang a -new- exhibit in the same space when the -Global Visuals- exhibit was taken down. On Jan. 11th, 2008 ... several art pieces were removed ... and -new writing pieces- titled: 'HOW to create W O R L D P E A C E and -arrest- ... -stop!- ... -bring .THE END. to Global Warming-' were hung.
Cafe Play-s owner told Linda she could use the exhibit space she had in the cafe indefinitely ... tho regretably, Cafe Play closed it's doors on Mar. 28th.
Sept. 22, 2007 Linda was invited to participate in thE 'Care for the Planet' - Peace Thru Action Day - held in Denver, CO. Linda was invited to be thE (guest) -'World Peace' poet/speaker-. There is information about the day @ Care for the Planet. Linda attended near weekly -organizational meetings- from Sept. '07 thru Mar. '08 ...to help to prepare for this year's event***. Of the -4- areas attendees at the meeting took (to organize and oversee) ... Linda chose the .stillness. area. One of her projects for the day was to create a labyrinth on cloth. In March Linda asked Unity Church - Boulder if she could build a 'labyrinth' on the church property for 'practice'. Because the labyrinth at Unity was not completed before the -Peace Day event- ... ... making a labyrinth on cloth has been postponed.
Linda was in attendance at a Department of Peace ( www.thepeacealliance.org ) meeting in Denver recently. She was invited to be (and has become) the Colorado District 2 (which includes Boulder, Summit and Eagle counties) -District Co-ordinator-. Linda shared that 'Care for the Planet' was extending an invitation to the Department of Peace to partner with them for ***this event. When the invitation was accepted by those in attendance at the DOP meeting, Linda became a -co chair- of the upcoming -Sept. 21st- event.
In January 2004 Linda participated in 'An Evening of Poetry and Music that could lead to WORLD PEACE ' with pianist Rob Satori at the Sarasota Women's Resource Center ... Sarasota, FL.
New Year's Day 2003 ... Linda was invited to be a guest poet/speaker during the -Annual Day of Prayer for WORLD PEACE- at the United Methodist Church in Englewood, FL. Note: 1,000 people attended with -5- interfaith speakers ... The head of the Presbyterian Church in America gave the main talk.
Also ... Linda is proud to have had -4- color photos on full pages in the last issue of www.illiteratemagazine.com ... which one can pick up at various venues in Boulder, CO: -on thE hill and @ U of CO-.
+ ... Linda had an -almost 6 month exhibit- at Cafe Play on thE hill in Boulder ... Oct. '07 thru Mar. '08. ThE last few months included -writing pieces- titled: HOW to create WORLD PEACE ... and -arrest- ... -stop!- ... -bring thE end to Global Warming-.
Years ago Linda discovered the work of the French philosopher Teilhard de Chardin. He created the word 'noosphere' to describe the layer of thought that hovers above nature and acts as a universal consciousness . . . a 'thinking envelope' that our thoughts go up to and then are reflected back. Linda developed the philosophy that if Humanity . . . consciously with intention, either individually or collectively, could quiet our thinking mind(s) for just a few minutes daily, 'the noosphere' would be -quieted- ... and it's 'reflection' back to Earth would then be more peaceful, more calm, and more loving. Linda believes incrementally -this- could bE a 'Formula for World Peace' * .