Welcome to the art/life trail. For the past three weeks we’ve been contemplating Being horse, opening space to be connected to our personal horsepower. Personal horsepower is the natural ability to be instinctive and free. If we observe horse in the wild she will stand long and long gazing and grazing. She may lie down […]
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Horse Sense
Welcome to the art/life trail ride! Week by week our opportunity, from now until spring equinox, is to turn toward Inner Treasure. In order to accomplish this worthy and inspired goal we line up with s l o w f l o w Several weeks ago we shape-shifted. We became like a healthy youth, got super […]
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The Root of the Matter
Welcome to the art/life trail ride. Who Knows? Maybe the Root Is the Flower Of that Other Life Mary Oliver We are moving down into the roots of the 90 days of fall. This is the Experience month, when it’s possible to really begin (fresh each year) to mature the creative energies of the art/life. I invite […]
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Becoming Newer
Welcome to the art/life trail ride! Our challenge for fall is to turn our attention toward an expanded and simultaneously deepened relationship with Life. To support this call I’ve invited Wise Woman Medea Bavarella Chechik to share her insights on Becoming Newer. Medea’s life long quest for knowledge and wisdom began at an early age and led […]
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A Staggering Idea
Welcome to the art/life trail ride! Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case the idea is quite staggering. Arthur C. Clarke Last week we considered the power of being horse rather than riding horse. That’s a big shift in consciousness that’s worth investigating. Learn a bit […]
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Breathing Space
Welcome to this week on the art/life trail ride! October 1-30 brings the Experience Moon. We are standing at the West Gate on the circle of the Natural Year. From here we begin the deep inward turn on the trail that takes us down and in. As we begin to move away from the appropriate business of […]
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The Cosmic Wheel Turns…
Welcome to the West Gate on the Natural Calendar! We are on the art/life trail ride discovering natural creative connections. The West Gate opens us to our emotions. The 90 days between fall equinox or Mabon and winter solstice give us a chance to love our destiny. These twelve weeks also provide time to attend to that […]
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I Run with the Reindeer
We return from four days at the tree farm well rested, sleeping like stones, lulled by whip-o-will echoing calls from one side of the wooded creek bed to the other. I had not heard a whip-o-will calling til my first spring at the farm several years ago. Watching a trio of bats dip and spiral […]
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At the Cross Road
The Great Escape, Drozda, Acrylic/canvas, 48 x 36 inches, private collection Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. Anna Freud Welcome to the art/life trail ride! We are closing the Growth moon/month and the 30 day challenge of exploring emotional balance. How did it go for you? A hefty part […]
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On the Beautiful Trail
Welcome to this week on the art/life trail ride…in our third week of the 30 day emotional heath and well being challenge let’s be bold as we celebrate curiosity and possibility. Last fall while writing the 2016 Lifecycle Forecast I realized that the word Koyaanisqatsi, which roughly translates to: life out of balance or chaotic life, would be […]
