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 […]
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Five and a Half Years in the High Security Lock-Up Ward
My experience of being in the lock-up ward (1991-1995) taught me much about how I might support others in celebrating strengths which often involves learning to turn wounds to wisdom. I’ll share the story of how I came to be in lock-down…an amazing time… in a future post. It was during those years that I dropped down […]
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Put Your Stake in the Ground
Super Volute, Drozda, Acrylic/board, 12 x 12″ 1998 Last week I shared touchstones that I enlist to support my relationship with a natural and rhythmic flow of time. It’s July 31 and we’re experiencing a phenomenon of ‘once in a Blue Moon’ which happens every couple of years. I invite us to celebrate by going a bit deeper […]
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The School of What’s Happening Now
Once upon a time some days ago I wandered far off the beaten path into the back country of Bandelier National Monument. Backpacking and tenting in the canyons and hiking the mesas I came upon primordial pathways worn into the rocky mountain. These long smooth troughs in stone create sculpted echoes from the foot falls of the Anasazi filling me with wonderful questions about […]
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It took me 30 years and 6 months to write this blog…
I’ve been curious and wondering how I would get back onto the blogging horse after abruptly falling off several months ago. Painful. Not majorly painful…not like many losses in life can be…certainly not life altering…yet perhaps each of us in our own way can relate to the leaving of something and then not being able to pick […]
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How I… ADOPTED A NEW OUTLOOK
“It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backward.” Lewis Carrol I’m being encouraged by life, Others and myself to share a bit of the history that informs my work as an artist and Blossoming Crone, what I like to think of as being my own Here-O…it is a way to pull forward the […]
