New Moon Of Thinking Bigger I often start my journal each morning with some clarifying questions. I asked, ‘Great Spirit, what would you have me do today?’. This week I received loud and clear, ‘I Would Have You Think Bigger!’. I just had to laugh. I can spend so much time running around this computer…… Continue Reading
Reflecting on Tribes I have Known Finding your Tribe has been the thing to do for decades. Something brings you together and you interact, learn, and hopefully, grow in knowledge about yourself and them. Tribes come in many forms, artist groups, gallery groups, family you’re born or marry into, job colleagues, women’s groups- the list…… Continue Reading
Moving Past Numb & into Healing. Life is always like this. As we’re in the middle of meeting good friends, falling in love, experiencing adventures, and facing challenges, it slaps us with the reality of the end game and stops us cold in our tracks. Everything is such a fragile and fleeting moment in…… Continue Reading
If You Can’t Dream it, You Can’t Live It Somewhere along the way, probably at the impressionable teen years, the goal to work hard, study, and accomplish something successful was implanted deep in my psyche. That hypnotic thought still lurks deep in the depths, keeping my life filled with busy-ness, without considering what it is…… Continue Reading
As Hurricanes Devastate Paradise, I Contemplate ‘Home’. Home, our security, our refuge, our sanctuary, the roof over our heads, physically and emotionally, it holds all our accumulated treasures of a lifetime. But there are at least two other ‘homes’. One is our community, our tribe, our people. These we connect to in times of celebration…… Continue Reading
A Milky Way Meditation I lost myself in awe of The Solar Eclipse this week. As the Sun disappears, and shimmering crescents appear on the ground from rogue sunbeams filtering through the trees, I can’t look away. Eclipses have always been an event of huge magnitude for me. They keep everything in perspective. I remember…… Continue Reading
French Bouquet Sky, I think I’ll save this video for The Sensual Artist classes. Colors from a French Bouquet of Anniversary flowers with 3 Ravens added! When the Shame, Sadness, Fear, and Pain Reach the Edge of Overwhelm: Deload Today was a retreat to the womb day. I came across the term ‘deload’…… Continue Reading
Big Changes Call for Big Actions. “Make Living Itself an art, that is the goal. ” Henry Miller It’s so Easy to coast through life keeping busy, with every day like yesterday. But that won’t move us forward. The Big question is ‘How Best to use my Time?’ Working on yourself is really a daily…… Continue Reading
A Practice to Turn Hurt Around Today I ran into one of those experiences that shook me up, dredged up the anger, spoiled the moment, and how I wished I could have been like the Crane above, at peace and stillness while all raged around me. But the sad part for me was that bits…… Continue Reading
Time is a Perception, and Perceptions Change all the Time! When I walk the streets of Mystic, Ct., I feel as though time stands still. Founded in 1654, the restored historic homes filling the town were once owned by Sea Captains, shipbuilders, and sailors, and take me back to a time when tall ships first…… Continue Reading