Be tenacious! Have courage! When everything that you recognize is stripped away know that as a creative being you can still blossom. Pink. The Lady Slipper Orchid emerging after surviving the timbering, April 2022 It was the holiday season of 2009. We simply took a drive. Heading west four...
Gratitude to Mother Earth Sailing Through Night and Day …
Happy Earth Day! Caught on the wildlife camera at the tree farm early this month And here, in honor of National Poetry Month is one of my all-time favs by Zen-poet, Gary Snyder: Prayer for the Great Family (after a Mohawk Prayer) Gratitude to Mother Earth, sailing through night and day–...
How Will You Emerge? What Will You See?
At the equinox, Sunday, March 20, creative energy will shift, as will natural momentum, calling each of us forth from winter’s restorative cave. Night roaming coyote/looking like s/he is emerging from a natural cave wildlife camera capture at the tree farm Will you be ready to emerge? Will you...
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Love the Moment … Clear the Way Forward
If you are new here, welcome! Happy Newest Creative Year! If you are an Old Friend you may be mindful that on December 21 the North Gate opened to the twelve weeks of winter. The ninety days that make up this natural quarter of the year provide the time...
BE Light
Great Inner Strength
Each December you and I are offered the opportunity to check-in and acknowledge the truth of our great Inner Strength. Interestingly our culture cranks up our distraction quotient to such a degree that in actuality many of us seem to lose ourselves in this swirl of doing and...
What Next? What Now? What Matters?
Much of what I see is now becoming repetitious and familiar to me. This is something to strive for because, without the attainment of familiarity, the significant remains invisible. Immersion in the familiar also brings me a feeling of tranquility and comfort, a sense that all is right with...
The FREE 8-Day Emotional Maturity Challenge Registration is open
The fall equinox on September 22 began our six-month journey inward. We now turn our attention to reenergizing our creative vision. Over the next six months notice how your identity shifts and changes, naturally. You are not the same as you were last year. The West Gate opens into...
Growing Together
My thanks to Norfolk Academy, artist Rick Nickle and artist-curator Betsy DiJulio (who made it all happen 😉 for the exhibition ‘Growing Together’. In lieu of a public opening, canceled due to Covid, I have created a brief walk-through. Click on the image to take the 18-minute gallery tour:...