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 […]
The Winner Is Zinnia
August 23rd, 2011As usual, I experienced plant lust when I visited the Missouri Botanical Garden last weekend. It was a new flower I had only seen in catalogs. A zinnia with the most beautiful dusty rose petals, bright pink purple center and a light lime green edge on the new emerging petals. It is called Queen Lime […]
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 […]
Artist Creates Light, With Thread
August 20th, 2011A few weeks ago I walked into a local St. Louis arts center and just about fell over when I turned the corner and saw one of the most beautiful and amazing art installations ever. Even more amazing was that a few weeks before someone sent me an internet connection to photographs of this international […]
Buddha Garden Art, Chain Saw Carving, Unlikely Pair
August 16th, 2011Usually chain saws and Buddha are not words you find together. At the home of a St. Louis yoga teacher and lawyer the 15 feet tall Buddha sculpture in the front yard is the work of a chain saw artist
Touching Infinity in A Garden For The Soul
August 13th, 2011“When I touch a flower… I am touching infinity”, is the George Washington Carver quote in my garden. Seeing and touching the infinite in the mandala shape of a flower is what draws me to the garden.
