‘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 two quarters making up the fall […]
masculine/feminine time
May You Be Peaceful
Welcome to our weekly art/life trail ride. Now on the other side of winter solstice we come to the gateway into the Mystery where we will explore for the coming 12 weeks. My Holiday wish to you and yours… May You Be Peaceful May All Beings Be Peaceful May we gift ourselves with Metta: May I be […]
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Buffeted by the Storm
Welcome to our weekly art/life trail ride. We’re coming up to the close of the calendar year and as we peer out we can see…up ahead…here on the path; a sign post. Clear indicator Notice Look ahead The winter solstice on December 21 is a day of equipoise…a day of equal light and dark… a day to […]
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Shake Your Wings
December Sky at my retreat farm, Drozda You knock at the door of reality. You shake your wings, loosen your shoulders, and open. Rumi Welcome to our weekly art/life trail ride…Like many of us I stepped back from routine last week to be with family. I’m deeply grateful to have a wonderful and funny clan […]
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The Most Irreplaceable of Beings
Morning Song, Drozda, Acrylic/mixed media on canvas, 36 x 48″ Private Collection “Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out […]
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Do You Mind?
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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Pondering, Piddling and Putzing
Welcome to the art/life trail ride. This week we’re taking a deep breather and enjoying the surrounding view. Savor the company of your favorite trees while reflecting upon the current design and the detail of the art/life that you’re living. As we travel the wheel of the Natural Year there is a great divide. It’s […]
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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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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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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 […]
