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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Dancing with the Universe

A friend of mine forwarded this video to me and I couldn’t help but want to share it by putting it on my blog. The lyrics to the song that goes with it was adapted by the following poem by Rabindranath Tagore. For an in depth look at how and why this video was made, [...]

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Garden Stakes

I got the idea of making garden stakes from my fellow blogging friend, kt. She is so creative and makes such beautiful things, it’s hard not to get inspired when visiting her site. I decided to go with inspirational words for my stakes such as “Grow”, “Hope” and “Peace”, instead of calling out specific [...]

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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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Joy

I don’t think any sensitive person can be satisfied with having fun, no matter how much of it we may cram into our lives. Our need is not for pleasure but for joy – a deep sense of fulfillment that not only never leaves us but increases with the passage of time. Fun is living [...]

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A New View

Despite the famous saying, familiarity is not always such a bad thing. Neighbors sometimes ask me how I can walk the same route down the beach each day, but what they don’t understand is that the beach changes with every tide. “To find new things, take the path you took yesterday,” wrote John Burroughs. While [...]

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Abundance

The source of all abundance is not outside you. It is part of who you are. However, start by acknowledging and recognizing abundance without. See the fullness of life all around you. The warmth of the sun on your skin, the display of magnificent flowers outside the florist’s shop, biting into succulent fruit, or getting [...]

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The Blessedness of Winter

This is a photo of a tree in our backyard, along with one of my favorite passages that follows. I pull out and read these words every year about this time, when winter is in full swing and seems as though it will never end. We’ve had snow on the ground since before Christmas and [...]

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Outside the Box

Creativity is the mother of all our energies, nurturer of your most alive self. It charges up every part of you. When you’re plugged in, a spontaneous combustion occurs that “artists” don’t have the monopoly on. This energy arises from your own life force and from the larger spiritual flow. It’s a sublime feeling that [...]

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A Lump of Clay

One day about a year ago, I picked up a small lump of clay while talking on the phone with a friend, and absentmindedly sculpted this little figure (it’s only 2 1/2 inches tall). After I hung up the phone, I was both shocked and surprised to look down and see what my hands had [...]

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