Static on the Line

Welcome to the art/life trail! We are traveling inward and continuing the six month process of sinking deep. The first 90 days (stretching from fall equinox to winter solstice) can be used for mind training. In as little as fifteen quiet minutes a day it becomes possible to connect with intuitive guidance. This type of mind […]

The Pervading Influence

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Trust to Love

I’ve missed you. It has been four weeks… to the day… since I last met up with you here on the art/life trail ride. I hope that you are well. I Trust that you are savoring this delicious point on the Natural Calendar. This mid-point in September is where we begin to harvest what has […]

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 […]

Whatayathinkin’?

Welcome to this week on the trail! It’s the Growth moon cycle and time to push into the area of your art/life where you sense expansion happening. How does your Creative Garden Grow?   Wren House Garden, Drozda, 2016 The wind, too, scattered seeds. As the water reappeared, so there reappeared willows, rushes, meadows, gardens, […]