Distant Horizons

Distant Horizons opens you to new possibilities, experiences, and surprises. Like a trip that needs planning, you decide what to take with you, what to leave behind that no longer serves you, and how to prioritize your necessities so you thrive. It’s really almost a house cleaning, to make way for something new. It’s an exciting time in life when you completely open to another world.

We need these milestones in life to keep us passionate, evolving, and moving forward without getting stuck. Seeing life with Fresh Eyes, like a kid seeing an amusement park for the first time, triggers our imagination big time. It also lights up our instincts and makes us sit up to pay attention, since we never know what is around the next corner. We become Alive with feeling and truly living Life again.

For me, a huge distant horizon is returning to a favorite place that I love. Santa Fe has always held a Magic all it’s own. Every trip is unique, just as life and people keep evolving and changing, cities and towns do the same. But things also shift because I’m a different person every time I go.

They say you never step into the same river twice, because it’s endlessly morphing into new shapes, colors, temperatures, and flow. Life and people are like that too.

For example, there was one trip where I really wanted to find the studio of the artist Tory Hughes. I love her mystical image transfers on polymer clay, and the celestial combinations of cosmic symbols. And Tory herself was all that and more. She gave us a tour, lent me a favorite book, and introduced us to the Japanese spa on the ridge. We made plans to go house hunting our next time out. But life had other plans. She passed away before we could return. But a treasured memory will stay with me forever.

Distant Horizons will be rich with experiences if you go without expectations.

Plus, that works for places and people as well. Expect nothing from anyone, or anyplace, and you will never be disappointed.

For example, my family and I were invited out to the Hopi reservation one year, because of my art filled with kachinas, and especially Corn Mother. The trip was magical, the people wonderful, and our tour beyond our wildest dreams. We ate lunch with a family and watched the Dances from the rooftops of the Village.

I would tell my story at art shows, and my collectors were mesmerized. One woman had to go there. She found my Hopi guide, drove him out to the reservation, but that was the extent of it. Where was the magic, the loving inclusion, the place were the eagles lay, and Spider Woman’s house? Where were the Cosmic Forces that create a mystical dream experience? I have no idea. The experience was ours alone.

The Key is to go anyway. Distant Horizons are calling to you! Whether you find a new town to explore, a sacred ancient site of the tribes, or a place to really connect with the beauty of Nature, you have to step out of your cave. You have to make the first move beyond your secure homestead, but in a safe way. Mask up whenever the inner voice says ‘Do It’. You never know what’s out there until you explore. The more outdoors, the better. But be smart about it. Reread the second line at the beginning.

Develop a deep knowing about what is right for you.

However, if you’re at home, still see your life with Fresh eyes. Learn to do something you’ve never done before. Watch videos to learn to do anything. Play with new materials to discover Your Maker’s Mark. ‘Find yourself’ either in your home sanctuary, or out in the world. There are always more levels to all you are Becoming.

Here’s my making of Santa Fe Skies. All I write here are my thoughts at this moment of time. I will try to do that even while on the road! Safe Travels!