Set the Tone, Set the Stage, Set the Scene

  Welcome to 2024!   Click here or on the photo to watch the introduction to the Creative Energy Levels vlog: Let’s set the tone for this year from a Creative Energy standpoint. If we consider the options available everything comes down to how we talk to ourselves and the feelings that result. I’m well […]

The Opening of the North Gate

Our keyword for December is Strength May resilience be radiant within all living beings. That even in the darkest of times, a light shines forth from the heart.” Winter Again, Drozda, Acrylic/pastel/Arches paper, 5×7″ As the North Gate opens at Winter Solstice, on December 21, we enter the twelve weeks of our deepest yearly journey […]

When an Idea Rises Up to Meet the Light

Fawn at the Tree Farm, wildlife camera capture There are four more weeks of summer. There is a ripe opportunity to be fully engaged! What are you choosing as your most joyful growth for this season? Oftentimes what brings us joy and uplift gets lost in the shuffle of the day-to-day. We all arrive into […]

Grow Your Capacity to Share

In this post, I emphasize one of our favorite tenets for the art/life which is that we grow together. Summer is the season to truly expand on this concept in your experience.                                          click here: watch […]

Summer Solstice and the Opening of the South Gate

Circadian Circle Floor Cloth, Drozda, mixed media, 6×6′, in use since 1990 It’s exciting and energizing to recognize the shift in focus that takes place as each of the four gates of the natural year opens. Here, at Summer Solstice, we enter the most active quarter. Observe nature to witness the burgeoning activity, growth, and […]

Be a True Fool

stock photo While walking the dogs last week I looked up to see a pair of Bald Eagles circle high overhead and then, flying toward one another, they join, clasping talons! From that amazement, they begin a free fall including a triple somersault! It happens fast yet it feels like slow motion … they release […]

Cross Quarter You

It’s amazing what you can do by just telling and owning your own story. I shared stories in the first two posts of this still-new year. Post one. Post two. I’ve been demonstrating, in my own imperfect fashion, story-telling power. I couldn’t share either of those stories immediately. I had to give myself time and […]

Breath of the Blind Sea Turtle

Remembering that 2023 is our global Vision Quest year I remind us of the inquiries made in the previous blog post : Consider your inner strength. Consider the simple things that sustain you. Consider the brilliance of your current fondest dream. And Breathe.   Breathe as if your life depends on it! This past year […]