Matters of the Heart, Art & Mandala Healing
October 9th, 2011I was away from this blog for a few weeks, too much to do. Two art shows (one I was in charge of and it poured rain all day), my garden on a garden tour, a mandala art workshop, garden designs and installs, and other commitments all added up to three weeks and weekends of […]
Wordless Wednesday – Mandala Inspirations
September 28th, 2011Wordless Wednesdays. Just beautiful inspiration from nature, gardens and mandala shapes. Please enjoy.
Tibetan Monks Mandala, Non Ending
August 31st, 2011Last Weekend was the ending and non ending of the Sand Mandala for Peace created by the eight Tibetan Monks from Drepung Gomang Monastery in downtown St. Louis. The Mandala took five days to complete. The intricate and beautiful circular shape was build grain of sand upon grain of sand. It was swept up in […]
Tibetan Monks Mandala-Days 2 & 3
August 27th, 2011The Tibetan Monks from the Drepung Gomang Monastery continue to create the sand Mandala for Peace in downtown St. Louis at Macrosun. The beauty of the mandala emerges as the Monks carefully place individual grains of colored sand into the design. A special metal tool called a chakpur has a small opening at the narrow […]
Tibetan Monks Mandala – Day One
August 26th, 2011St. Louis is being blessed with a sand mandala for peace created over five days by Tibetan Buddhist Monks from the Drepung Gomang Monastery in Southern India. I attended the opening ceremony on Wednesday, the 24th. It began at noon and continued for over an hour. The eight monks created a blessing ceremony of chants […]
Send My Roots Rain, Mandalas & Art Journaling
August 20th, 2011One of my mandala students and a friend, brings the most wonderful short quotes to our monthly Mandala Making get togethers. One day she wrote “Send My Roots Rain” in her art making. This quote has sustained me as a prayer, as I am sure the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins felt when he wrote this […]
