Synchronicity Abounds Everywhere On a trip last Spring to Asheville, NC, to visit my cousin, I came across an artist whose work really drew me in. We had toured every warehouse studio complex by this time, and the art was great to see, but didn’t call to me personally. Then in an upstairs, large, bright…… Continue Reading
Everyone loves a Mystery, and the biggest one is finding our Selves. I never follow a formula for making the next piece of art. I come to the clean canvas with few preconceived ideas, hoping to touch deeply in the well of intuition for surprising results. The Sacred is often entered through an arched doorway…… Continue Reading
Ever Wish You Could Jump-start your Vitality & Energy? At this change of seasons as the Sept Equinox approaches, it’s a great time to make a stand, eliminate pollution in body, mind, & spirit, and get back to being Inspired again. I start by getting rid of ‘breaking news’ in all its diabolical forms. So…… Continue Reading
What transports you away from the world of transitory things, to the deeper Other World of Inner Peace? What path leads you to the place where you know personally that you are just fine, and all is well in your world? Escaping the routine does that. Consciously stepping away from the daily habits of life,…… Continue Reading
“If you can’t find the truth right where you are, where do you expect to find it?” Dogen Zendi Birth your Reality every day. Each summer morning, I look for our 2 rabbits, inhale the pungent morning scent of blooming flowers and cool woods, listen to light classical or meditative instrumental music, and savor a…… Continue Reading
The Inner Voice: develop it, use it, trust it. The biggest defense and protection each of us has these days is our intuition, our inner voice, our bodily feelings. These have kept us alive up to now. Our ancestors had fine tuned these abilities to heighten all the senses. Listening to Instinct is, and has…… Continue Reading
We all are world travelers, come from somewhere else. Some stories are more recent than others, but in America, no one really started ‘here’. I heard an Irish woman say that it is so interesting to hear Americans tell the adventures of their ancestors who ended up ‘here’. Her family has lived in Ireland for…… Continue Reading
Shadow Wolf silently glided through the forest, big, dark, and strong. Over morning coffee last week, gazing out on our primeval, dense forest, I spotted a smooth focused movement near the creek. Summer Solstice Week still held a feeling of pause in the Sun’s transit over the Earth. I couldn’t believe I was seeing a…… Continue Reading
Learn to Create All of the Above and More in Wabi Sabi II Wabi Sabi is a way of Life recognizing the physical world around us with spirit infusing it all. It is a mindfulness to bring balance to everything we think, say, and do. Art is my medium for this blending of the life…… Continue Reading
you have a 9′ Indian standing behind you to your right?” he said. I didn’t know. ‘And that’s why you do the art that you do’. Not the usual comment I would hear at an Art Fair, and long before political correctness came into being, but certainly interesting. ‘He’ turned out to be a healer…… Continue Reading