A New Leaf & Becoming
March 20th, 2021A New Leaf Today is the first day of Spring 2021. So much has happened since last spring. Our world is changing, “turning over new leaves”. New leadership bringing welcomed changes, new healings with vaccines, new light as spring begins. But there is still much darkness with 2.8 million Covid deaths, new Covid strains, inequality, […]
Creativity Journey #5 – Becoming One With Nature & Creative Flow
October 16th, 2020Creativity Journey #5 – Becoming One With Nature & Creative Flow This creativity journey – Becoming One With Nature & Creative Flow – explores ways to awaken to our oneness with nature and creative flow through writing, mandalas and expressive drawing. This Creativity Journey blog post (like the others) is organized into five […]
New Beginnings – Clarity & 20-20-20
February 3rd, 2020A New Year & A New Blog (Finally) May this New Year 2020 bring the blessings of your true and highest self to the world. Let your beauty, creativity, truth and love bring your healing power to this world. New Blog This is the first blog of 2020. I’m very happy to be sending out […]
The Joy & Depth of Teaching – Art & Soul Retreat
December 9th, 2018Some of my most joyful and deepest creativity has been teaching at the Art & Soul Retreat*at Kanuga in North Carolina. It is a feeling of stepping into a stream so strong and deep that it takes me to a place where my soul feels at home, really at home.
A Drawing, Design or Doodle a Day – Week 3
July 30th, 2018The sharing and checking in brought up my bee hive in the nearby garden and a poem by Emily Dickinson titled To Make A Prairie.
A Month of Drawing, Design or Doddle A day
July 13th, 2018A Month of Drawing, Design or Doodling a Day. I’m very excited about my Kanuga 5 day spiritual art workshop. This is an online preparation.
Drawing: A Dance with the Divine
February 2nd, 2018As I prepare for teaching my August five-day art workshop in North Carolina at Kanuga*, I am spending time in the dance of drawing, revisiting its joy and terror. Drawing is a dance that unites the essence of what is being drawn with the eyes, heart and hand of the person drawing. That dance takes place when a person sees, truly sees.
To Be or Not To Be – A Garden
July 27th, 2017I am working on a new practice, like the practice of yoga, meditation or prayer. It is the practice of becoming bilingual in the language of animacy.
Poems 2016: Poem-Lack, Truth, Tree-Speak, Friendship, Darkness & Hope
December 29th, 2016I am so fortunate to be in a book group that shares the breadth and depth of shared books and our soul’s truths. Our last gathering of the year is a sharing of one poem each.
Creating Sacred Space – Planting Prayers – Teacher Inspirations
October 18th, 2016The joy of leading and teaching spiritual art workshops is mainly seeing the opening up and blossoming of each participant’s creative expression. This was especially true in August at Kanuga during the Faith, Art & Creative Expression Conference workshop.
