Category Archives: Art with a Focus

The Land of Poets, Dreamers, and Explorers

The Land of Poets, Dreamers, and Explorers

Vernal Equinox: Balance Reality with Imagination At this magical time of the year, when the daylight is about as long as the night, let’s shift our focus from the reality out there, to the personal within. Remember a time when you use to immerse yourself in everything you did? When the only thing that mattered…Continue Reading

Committed to Happiness

Committed to Happiness

Mind is just crazy to defend itself, validate, be right It’s such an obsessive thing. I understand it’s kept me alive this long and served me well. But there has to come a time to reign it in, get control, and just settle down. Mind can’t stand to be disrespected, dishonored, or especially dismissed! But…Continue Reading

Time for New Life, New Beginnings

Time for New Life, New Beginnings

Happy Imbolc! An Ancient Holiday of Destiny and Fertility As the days start to get a little longer, and winter loosens its tight hold on the land, the Celts honored the natural order with major celebrations to move the energy of the Seasons forward. The Great Festival of Imbolc, beginning at sundown of Jan. 31,…Continue Reading

Song of the Mother

Song of the Mother

Earth Mother is the Goddess Herself, and She Has Knowledge to Share Ancients have known Her as Gaia, Danu, Tara, Mut, Shikena, Ninsun, Asherah, Pachamama, Hathor, Durga, Shakti, and Rhea. Thousands of Earth Mother fertility figures have been found worldwide, dating back 35,000 years. Her songs are of love, abundance, and beauty, as well as…Continue Reading

The Fascinating Creative Process

The Fascinating Creative Process

How do You Find Your Inspiration? The Turquoise Cliffs above have been in my mind’s eye for a few days. They were so vivid, I thought I had painted them before. Searching through my ‘archives’ produced nothing. So I made some samples and then a video demo of the making of this painting for YouTube.…Continue Reading

Create Your Prequel

Create Your Prequel

                     Prequels Link All You Have Been, To All You Are Becoming Prequels are everywhere. Look at the excellent ‘Rogue One’ prequel to the entire Star Wars Saga, with its amazing representation of Grand Moff Tarkin and cruisers, pilots, and robots we have all learned to love with each movie. It beautifully shows us all…Continue Reading

The Sacred Dark to Birth New Light

The Sacred Dark to Birth New Light

Winter Solstice Longest Night of the Year “Nothing can cure the soul but the senses just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul” Oscar Wilde Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year, is a time of Dreaming. There’s a place I go, a cave within the heart. Fox leaps & dances in…Continue Reading

Follow Your Light

Follow Your Light

See this Opportunity to Bring Your Personal Gift to the World. We’ve all lived through personal tough times. Life has always been a balance of the treacherous and sublime. Imagine this. What if we made this our time of Awakening, our huge Opportunity to act on the inner call. Can I wake up my genetic…Continue Reading

Life Through the Rear View Mirror

Life Through the Rear View Mirror

When Life Shakes You Up, Follow Your Own Agenda Imagine this. You are driving your car, remembering that you are the driver & no one else, and you see all your life experiences up to this point, this day, flowing behind you, getting farther away, through your rear view mirror. It’s the life you left…Continue Reading