I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and look at them long and long. Walt Whitman Welcome to our weekly art/life trail ride. Were you able to pause, ponder and piddle last week with a bit of putzing added? It was excellent to hear from […]
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Compassion, Confidence and Inner Strength
The Dalai Lama and my teacher, Khenpo Khonchong Gyaltshen Rinpoche “Compassion reduces our fear, boosts our confidence, and opens us to inner strength. By reducing distrust, it opens us to others and brings us a sense of connections with them and a sense of purpose and meaning in life.” Dalai Lama Welcome to this week […]
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Any Intelligent Fool…
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius…and a lot of courage…to move in the opposite direction. E.F.Schumacher This week the art/life trail ride is geared toward…let it go. Let go of the bigger Let go of the more Let go of the complex Certainly […]
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Tapping Into Slow Time
The Temple Door, Drozda, Mixed Media on board, 1998, Private Collection we see through each other’s eyes experience together I see what you saw a gecko a sailboat a sunset a moth a flower a tree a child in his mother’s arms projected perceived Jasper Lotus Hawkins Welcome to the first week of our October […]
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Balance Point…and Beyond
Thunderous brainstorms Occur in silent flashes Of inspired rest. E.R.Urabe Welcome! It’s our weekly trail ride meet up… ~I’m so happy to see you here~ As we move along the art/life path this is the time of year to literally imagine that we are riding into the sunset…facing West together. It isn’t the classic ‘The End’ […]
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The Bodhicitta Heart
Welcome to this week’s art/life trail ride…September keyword/focus point: Love. What lights you up and makes you feel radiant? Bodhicitta Heart, Drozda, Mixed media on board, 2010 “I tell you the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” Vincent Van Gogh “Until […]
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Being a Force of Nature
The truth is that, without writing, it is difficult for most people to go into their thought. By writing you slow thought down, find its emotional context in experience, and give yourself the chance to feel its meaning. As E.M. Forster famously asked, “How can I tell what I think till I see what I say? […]
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Art Outside the Door
Welcome to our Thursday art/life trail ride…I’m so glad that we’re exploring this creative terrain together. This week we visit my favorite studio…that created by our Mother Nature. My joy and appreciation of time out in the open air began early on and is now expanding with my new studio on my fifty acre ‘off […]
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Listen UP!
Welcome to our weekly art/life trail ride! I trust that new insights and adventures are meeting you in every direction! The art/life power word for August is Trust. Dictionary.com: defines Trust: 1. reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence. 2. confident expectation of something; hope. We learn to trust life through the ups and the downs. I use this time each year to consider new and […]
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Moon-Walking Luna-tic
My 5.5 years in the high security lock-up ward pitched me off the regular clock. Being in the ward made me privy to other dimensions in time. It wasn’t my first instance of being thrown out of the mainstream. The difference during the lock-up years was that I elected to have the experience. I made the decision First; a […]
