Back in the Saddle

Hello and Welcome to the art/life trail ride … Happy New Moon in Aries! April 7 marks the start of our Natural New Year! This is an exciting time and we’re hopping back into the saddle! YeeHaa!! Here on the trail we align with Natural Time which nourishes instinctive and wild creative power. We’ve been […]

Darkest Before Dawn

Hello and welcome to the art/life trail ride! Our journey is one of creative exploration and discovery. On the trail ride we connect to relaxed right brained feminine/receptive power, the fuel that propels forward movement. Forward movement is about to amp up here at the East Gate of spring. ‘Steppin’ In’, Drozda, Acrylic/board, 48 x 36”, private collection […]

Dream the Dream

We are traveling through the first week of March. This starts the ‘Purity Moon’ cycle. Hello and welcome to the art/life trail ride! Let’s jump right in with the present challenge…this is the week to step back and take a brief deathbed point of view on your year long journey. ‘Passing of the Dream’, Drozda, Acrylic/board, […]

There’s Gold Inside of You

Welcome to the art/life trail ride! We are traveling through the fourth week of February ‘The Renewal Moon’ cycle. ‘Stillpoint #2′, Drozda, Acrylic/canvas, 24 x 36″, 2008 Throughout this month we’ve been noticing the ways that Renewal can play a bold and dynamic part in the creative process. Do you tell yourself that there’s already too much […]

Write Your Own Ticket

The February Renewal Moon brings boldness to the fore. ‘I Die Daily’ (study), Drozda, oil pastel on board, 14 x 14″, 2003, Artist collection Call in a renewed courage!! At this point on the Natural Calendar each opportunity to move forward creates kick-back. Offered the chance to explore we might feel pulled in the opposite direction. Instead […]

Shake It Up…

Welcome to our second week on the February art/life trail ride. This week we celebrate the New ‘Renewal’ Moon of February 8, and the beginning of the New Lunar Year of the Fire Monkey: The year of the Monkey is ideal for a quantum leap in your life! Now is the time to shake things […]

Into the Liminal

Welcome to our first week on the February art/life trail ride. This week we take a moment to be grateful for the space that we created during January’s Clearing. ‘Marsh Morning’: from ‘My Island Home’,  Drozda, Acrylic on canvas, 1989. 54 x 40″  Now, for February, we turn our attention toward breathing in Renewal. Renewing […]

A Handy Practice

THE ART OF CREATING THE FUTURE Glacier National Park Deer, Kevin LeFevre, photographer Welcome to our fourth week on the January art/life trail ride. This week we make space for new creative vision. To facilitate this we did a dismount at the beginning of the month taking time out of the saddle. January’s keyword: ‘Clearing’ creates […]

Grace Pace

Welcome to our fourth week on the January art/life trail ride. January keyword: ‘Clearing’ relates this week to clearing the mind. A clear mind creates an open path into The Mystery.  Going forward we’re making way for renewed creative focus. ‘Esperance’, Drozda, mixed media/canvas, 72 x 54” The Mystery opens into a clearing of synchronicity. We have 7 […]

Stand Clear…

Welcome to our third week on the January art/life trail ride. January’s keyword: ‘Clearing’ … relates to creating space. Creating space seems like a topic that doesn’t need much additional investigation…and yet as we all know sometimes there is soooo much and tooooo much and we don’t know where to start…some of us suffer from […]