WE HAVE ENTERED THE SOUTH GATE and are moving through the 12 weeks of summer! Summer surrounds us with nature’s vitality, engagement, and creative growth. New life at my tree farm captured on the wildlife camera Into this expansive space, we discover the power of returning to the...
Voluntary Simplicity
Value the Wealth of Your Wellbeing
Welcome to June! As the sizzle of summer approaches it’s a natural time to check-in and check up on what we value. We do that with the … FREE 8-Day Wealth and Well-Being Challenge begins Monday, June 6 “Creativity is sacred, and it is not sacred. What we make...
Pink … The Lady Slipper
Be tenacious! Have courage! When everything that you recognize is stripped away know that as a creative being you can still blossom. Pink. The Lady Slipper Orchid emerging after surviving the timbering, April 2022 It was the holiday season of 2009. We simply took a drive. Heading west four...
Gratitude to Mother Earth Sailing Through Night and Day …
Happy Earth Day! Caught on the wildlife camera at the tree farm early this month And here, in honor of National Poetry Month is one of my all-time favs by Zen-poet, Gary Snyder: Prayer for the Great Family (after a Mohawk Prayer) Gratitude to Mother Earth, sailing through night and day–...
Love the Moment … Clear the Way Forward
If you are new here, welcome! Happy Newest Creative Year! If you are an Old Friend you may be mindful that on December 21 the North Gate opened to the twelve weeks of winter. The ninety days that make up this natural quarter of the year provide the time...
Great Inner Strength
Each December you and I are offered the opportunity to check-in and acknowledge the truth of our great Inner Strength. Interestingly our culture cranks up our distraction quotient to such a degree that in actuality many of us seem to lose ourselves in this swirl of doing and...
What Next? What Now? What Matters?
Much of what I see is now becoming repetitious and familiar to me. This is something to strive for because, without the attainment of familiarity, the significant remains invisible. Immersion in the familiar also brings me a feeling of tranquility and comfort, a sense that all is right with...
Growing Together
My thanks to Norfolk Academy, artist Rick Nickle and artist-curator Betsy DiJulio (who made it all happen 😉 for the exhibition ‘Growing Together’. In lieu of a public opening, canceled due to Covid, I have created a brief walk-through. Click on the image to take the 18-minute gallery tour:...
Trust the Process
It’s September and the new keyword is LOVE. This is a word that has so much baggage attached to it and yet when you narrow it all down it’s the power that drives every aspect of your creative connection. Ya better love it or there is no way to...
Am I Trustworthy?
The keyword for the month of August is Trust Who Then?, Drozda (C), Acrylic/paper, 12 x14″ The first of August is the halfway-through-summer mark. With six weeks remaining before the inward turn at Fall Equinox we might ask: ‘What would I like to have come of this? ‘What would...