Gardens of Remembrance for 9/11
September 12th, 2011Art Hill in St. Louis holds many memories for most of the region’s citizens. The sloping six acres of graceful lawn ends at the bottom of the hill where it meets the formal fountains of the grand basin at the foot of the St. Louis Art Museum. It is the perfect spot for a picnic […]
Organizing Marketing for Creatives
September 7th, 2011On Thursday my class Marketing for Creatives takes place at Niche in downtown St. Louis, from 7 – 9 pm. I have to organize before I organize my thoughts and get into the flow of putting the class together. Some people think that organizing and straightening up before settling down to get work done is […]
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 […]
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.
