Dream the Dream

We are traveling through the first week of March. This starts the ‘Purity Moon’ cycle. Hello and welcome to the art/life trail ride! Let’s jump right in with the present challenge…this is the week to step back and take a brief deathbed point of view on your year long journey....

There’s Gold Inside of You

Welcome to the art/life trail ride! We are traveling through the fourth week of February ‘The Renewal Moon’ cycle. ‘Stillpoint #2′, Drozda, Acrylic/canvas, 24 x 36″, 2008 Throughout this month we’ve been noticing the ways that Renewal can play a bold and dynamic part in the creative process. Do you tell...

Write Your Own Ticket

The February Renewal Moon brings boldness to the fore. ‘I Die Daily’ (study), Drozda, oil pastel on board, 14 x 14″, 2003, Artist collection Call in a renewed courage!! At this point on the Natural Calendar each opportunity to move forward creates kick-back. Offered the chance to explore we might...

Shake It Up…

Welcome to our second week on the February art/life trail ride. This week we celebrate the New ‘Renewal’ Moon of February 8, and the beginning of the New Lunar Year of the Fire Monkey: The year of the Monkey is ideal for a quantum leap in your life! Now...

Into the Liminal

Welcome to our first week on the February art/life trail ride. This week we take a moment to be grateful for the space that we created during January’s Clearing. ‘Marsh Morning’: from ‘My Island Home’,  Drozda, Acrylic on canvas, 1989. 54 x 40″  Now, for February, we turn our...

A Handy Practice

THE ART OF CREATING THE FUTURE Glacier National Park Deer, Kevin LeFevre, photographer Welcome to our fourth week on the January art/life trail ride. This week we make space for new creative vision. To facilitate this we did a dismount at the beginning of the month taking time out of...

Grace Pace

Welcome to our fourth week on the January art/life trail ride. January keyword: ‘Clearing’ relates this week to clearing the mind. A clear mind creates an open path into The Mystery.  Going forward we’re making way for renewed creative focus. ‘Esperance’, Drozda, mixed media/canvas, 72 x 54” The Mystery opens into a...

Stand Clear…

Welcome to our third week on the January art/life trail ride. January’s keyword: ‘Clearing’ … relates to creating space. Creating space seems like a topic that doesn’t need much additional investigation…and yet as we all know sometimes there is soooo much and tooooo much and we don’t know where...

2016: Compassion in Action

‘Facing Her’, Drozda, Acrylic/wood, 16 x 20 “, private collection Welcome to our first week on the January art/life trail ride. What a turn in the trail this is!  From your current vantage point see yourself gently and safely sinking deeper into the feminine half of the Natural Year. The...

Eat My Words

Welcome to the art/life trail ride for the last day of 2015. It’s been quite the ride has it not?   Now as we turn the page on the Gregorian calendar it may be helpful to remember that here on the art/life trail we have eleven weeks remaining in the Natural...