Self Portrait #2

Like the other self portrait I posted a while back, this one was done using the camera embedded in my computer and filters in Photoshop. I don’t know what it is about the self portrait and why so many artists choose to try their hand at it. As with any art form, I suppose the [...]

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A Healing Crisis

Another journal entry since I’ve been too busy lately preparing for the 5 shows I signed up for this month to post anything current. There is merit in going back into these entries though – always a sign that my state of health has vastly improved. If someone today asked me how I managed to [...]

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Oregon

We’re making the trip to Oregon in July to see my family which reminded me of the following journal entry that I wrote 4 years ago while we were visiting out there. I haven’t posted a journal entry for some time and this one is quite long, but if you’re interested in reading more, they [...]

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The Cure Inside

I’ve been reading over my old journals again, looking particularly at where I was in August 2002…still very much involved in figuring out how to be well, I see. Whenever I look back, it is always encouraging to note the changes in my health and personal growth since then. However, there are still some issues [...]

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Wheat Harvest

Having grown up in a small farming town in Oregon, the middle of July means harvest time to me. Wheat harvest has always been a communal affair in my family. As soon as I turned 13, I was in the fields driving one of the trucks alongside the combines, keeping my pace steady while bushels [...]

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Raspberry Fields Forever

I’ve been looking back again, prompted by a question my friend, Frank DeMarco asked on my last post as to how often I work with clay. I surprised myself when I answered, “pretty much every day”. It has occurred to me that pottery-making has become a main contributor to my current sense of well-being. [...]

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Spiders in the Night

I’ve been studying Shamanism since the Fall of 2005 with a group of dedicated students led by Ann Drake, a psychotherapist, shamanic practitioner and author of “Healing of the Soul: Shamanism and Psyche”. Ann describes a shaman as “a healer who has the ability to travel to other realms of reality, communicate and work with [...]

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The Healing Art of Writing

I’ve started a new category on my blog called “Looking Back” that will include an occasional entry from my journals that date back to 2002 when I first began writing about living with and healing from IC. In general I try to keep my eyes on the road ahead and hesitate to look back too [...]

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Weeding

I went for a walk today and saw my first crocuses of the season; bright purple and white upward turned blossoms that had stubbornly pushed their way through the ground, breaking free at last from their long winter’s rest. It made me think of a poem I wrote many years ago while sitting on my [...]

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