“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
Everyone has an agenda, and it’s Very Personal Overwhelm is easy these days. In a world of too much world news given immediately, every angry, fearful person deemed newsworthy, every violent act exploited as must see viewing, we each personally must take a step back and view the life we have created before us. The…… Continue Reading
Inner Healing is a day to day Art. Most days are ‘Out of Sight, Out of Mind’. As long as everyone is alive and well, life goes on. But Memorial Day plus a Memorial Service for the sudden passing of the ex-husband, brings up all sorts of old dragons. Unexpected memories rise out of the…… Continue Reading
I’ve always believed my art was a reflection of my life. While going through a relationship changing misunderstanding with my cousin, I was drawn to paint our stormy, windy, powerful thunder and lightening, roaring sky happening. It was an upheaval of major proportions to our land and to my inner peaceful heart. By creating this…… Continue Reading
Like rising from icy waters, see the world in a new way. Allow the New Year to be a new start in thinking and living. I found myself surrounded by so many things that used to trigger my emotions, used to set me off in new creative directions, and used to spark an energy deep…… Continue Reading
Step Away from ‘Thinking’ and shift into ‘Knowing’ This happened to me as late summer shifted into fall. I woke up realizing I had been playing the ‘I don’t know’ game for long enough. I understood that there really were no more answers to be found, no doubt to be nourished, and nothing holding me…… Continue Reading
Our World is One of Connection. We look outside ourselves for so much! Connections, our ‘Tribe’, co-workers, besties, admirers, followers, ‘Likers’, Sharers, re-Tweeters, re-Pins, provide approval, validation, & respect. We see them as sending us love, understanding, recognition, an identity….a place where we ‘fit’ in. The Internet has especially brought this world of adulation, or…… Continue Reading
A Diary of the Senses We all need time away, Daydream time, whatever that means for you! Setting time aside each week to just dream, is an important way to bring balance into your life. Daydreaming turns on certain neurological circuits that allow inspiration and intuition to ignite! It’s all personal, but often it’s just…… Continue Reading
Move Forward in the World with Confidence. Feeling Good about yourself is the most responsible thing you can do. Your Power is how you feel about yourself. It’s not political, social, or an agenda, it IS totally Personal. Start with who you see in the mirror every day. Do you still look like the person…… Continue Reading
