Welcome to July on the art/life trail ride! The South Gate on the Natural Calendar and the pathway of Growth, Trust and Love are now open for business! The ninety days of summer place a focus upon Others. Research and action will hopefully be embraced! Our keyword for this moon/month...
Donna Iona Drozda
Out Beyond…
Happy First Week of Summer on the art/life trail ride! Summer Solstice, June 20 marked the first quarter turn on our Natural Calendar. We are now inside the South Gate of the circle. We might call the ninety days of the Summer Quadrant the Va Va Voom days! Think burgeoning! Think...
Summertime and Living is a…Gift
Just back from a 5 day tree farm retreat. We are off the grid. Lighting is managed by plugging a low wattage lamp into an alternator that is connected to a deep cell marine battery. There is a deep cell battery in my small works studio and another in the...
Go for the Gold!
Welcome to our first post in June! We’re on the art/life trail ride and the keyword each June is Illumination. Our challenge this moon/month is to be bright and radiant! Are you ready to shine? Here is a reminder of one gift we received in this year’s Lifecycle Forecast:...
Kindled, Grounded and Spacious
Goddess in the Making, Drozda, Acrylic/canvas, 36 by 36 inches, 1996, available for purchase We are all such exquisite and ruthless combinations of wisdom and woundedness. Jan Crawford Welcome to the art/life trail ride! It’s the last week in our 30 day Wisdom challenge…what does it mean to be...
Resist and Persist
This week we travel deep into the ‘Wisdom’ Moon cycle (May 6 – June 5, 2016). Change is afoot “A blueprint for our lives is as necessary as a blueprint for a house. It doesn’t serve us well to keep trying to build an igloo in the congo. Joanne...
33 Million and One
Happy ‘Wisdom’ Moon cycle (May 6 – June 5, 2016) and Happy Mother’s Day Welcome to the trail ride… Natural Time slows the pace of the race. We see the Wisdom path. We notice that there is nowhere to get to only the opportunity to BE creative. We spiral...
Walking Each Other Home
Welcome to this weeks art/life trail ride! April is over. It’s useful to notice that we’ve invested a full moon/month clearing space. Clear space (whether internal or external) brings Clarity. What we’ve gained will travel on with us. YAY…Clear…what a wonderful way to begin! Each year the Natural Calendar...
Let Your Body Sing
Welcome to the art/life trail ride! It’s the third week in the Clarity cycle (April 7 – May 6) the element that kicks off this Natural Year is fire. ‘Homage’, Drozda, Acrylic/board, 20 x 16″ Be ignited and lit up! Find the idea and inspiration that has motivation and...
Got Clarity?
Welcome to the art/life trail ride during the second week in April! Our keyword for this moon/month (April 7 – May 6) is Clarity. “Why do some people stop growing at age 30, just going from work to the couch and television, when others stay vibrant, curious, almost childlike,...