I am Fawn Rising. My bloodline is First Nation Eastern Cherokee and Irish. My two daughters and I are classically-trained dancers, musicians, athletes, and adore all the arts as our anchors as well as the world of horseback riding and training at my sister Gail Murphey’s ranch in Oregon (photos #1 and #5 above). 

It is an honor to have had a part in raising Kirsten and Katrine, along with the loving efforts of the entire Walter H. Murphey Family: Daniel, Gail, Douglas & our dear Uncle Tim (photo #1 above). Tim Murphey, Professor of Linguistics in Japan, sought to step forward and oversee world travel, languages and internal familial safety for our precious girls. Amazing love, compassion, and kindness. I am grateful. Deeply.

 

Welcome to my world!  I write and illustrate under the site name of largeanimalcrossingetc.com (LACE)  My pen name as well as my First Nation name is Fawn Rising.

My favorite thing to do is write and illustrate … oh, and dance, mostly classical ballet … and swim competitively … and compete in triathlon relays! (Athlete-friends like for me to do the ocean swim section with our shark neighbors.)

Additionally, I take my Service Dog, Ti Amo, a 55-lb labrador (photo #3) retriever/whippet to greet memory-impaired patients. We try to sing their favorite songs which brings great joy to all involved. (It uses both sides of the brain simultaneously!)

On this site, you can expect to find articles, enhanced memoirs based on true happenings (which are many times indeed enhanced!), poetry, short stories, children’s picture books, ideas, and illustrations.

It is a glorious journey and I am inspired daily by the sharing of your journeys. If you have any questions or comments, please contact me here.

Be well and find meaning while waging peace with tenderness and mercy,

Fawn

DO NOT BE DAUNTED
Do not be daunted by the insurmountability of the world’s grief.

Do justly, now.

Love mercy, now.

Walk humbly, now.

You are not obligated to
complete the work but neither are you free to abandon it.

                          — The Talmud

 

Paraphrased from Bresny’s “do’s and don’t’s”  for each of us:

1.  Do play and have fun more than usual; and

2.  Try not to indulge in naïve assumptions and infantile emotions that interfere with your ability to see the world as it is; and

3.  Take aggressive action to heal any sense of abandonment you’re still carrying from the old days; then

4. Don’t poison yourself with feelings of blame toward the people who abandoned you; yet

5.  Do unleash wild flights of fantasy and marvelous speculations about seemingly impossible futures that maybe aren’t so impossible, and; last

6.  Don’t get so fixated on wild fantasies and marvelous speculations that you neglect to embrace the subtle joys that are available to you now.

From my Xi Nu Sisters:

Be the energy I want to attract.

Give my gifts to the world.

Broken crayons still color.

 

Fawn.Rising.5/largeanimalcrossingetceteraMy heart, my home, my refuge ~

Photography by Fawn Rising & KatrineDunnPhotography©2020