Welcome to the Art/Life Trail. 

Summer is the natural time of the year to gain a fresh new perspective on possibility as well as a time to explore your capacity to extend and expand your creativity.

All through the Summer months there is the natural urge to want to do more. Rather than getting mired in a state of do, do, do and as a result burning out or becoming frazzled…why not become more tapped into what the energy of the day is offering and turn in the direction of growing, trusting and actually loving who we’re meant to be…right now, today, in this moment. 

I find Summer to be a very practical time in the creative year.

I borrow a term for this natural urge to create and extend our reach during the Summer months. I respectfully refer to this tug-of-the-heart as The Greening Force.  Inspired by:

“O most honored Greening Force,

You who roots in the Sun;
You who lights up, in shining serenity, within a wheel
that earthly excellence fails to comprehend.

You are enfolded
in the weaving of divine mysteries.

You redden like the dawn
and you burn: flame of the Sun.”

–  Hildegard von Bingen

The Greening Force here on the art/life trail is defined as a natural and organic inclination.

It’s the inclination to grow, to give birth, to metaphorically midwife a part that we may have yearned and dreamed to experience and express.

                                                            Being Present, Drozda, Acrylic/canvas, private collection

Think of the Greening Force as a practical creative tool. Learn to use it consciously throughout the fast paced summer months. Make a bold decision to connect with a project or  relationship in a new fresh way.

Find what is in you that yearns

to be deepened (or released).

Perhaps there is a skill

that you feel drawn to develop,

an adventure you’re ready to take.