Falling Leaves Art Retreat, You’re Invited!

Welcome to this Special Edition of the blog  celebrating September and the keyword of LOVE.  LOVE is the glue. LOVE is the magnetic field that holds everything together. To celebrate I invite you to wrap a gift of LOVE about yourself and sign-up for the OBX Falling Leaves Art Retreat the weekend of October 7-9. […]

It’s the Nature of Nature to GROW!

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 root of the matter … we […]

FREE 8-Day Wealth and Well-Being Challenge

“Creativity is sacred, and it is not sacred. What we make matters enormously, and it doesn’t matter at all. We toil alone, and we are accompanied by spirits. We are terrified, and we are brave. Art is a crushing chore and a wonderful privilege. Only when we are at our most playful can divinity finally […]

Not Ready for the Real World

  Every act rewards itself, or in other words, integrates itself, in a twofold manner; first in the thing, or in real nature; and secondly in the circumstance, or in apparent nature. Men call the circumstance the retribution. Compensation | Ralph Waldo Emerson   The world ‘out there’ is a foreign place. I’m confined to […]

Dreams Come True

There’s nothing more delicious than inspiration leading to action Welcome to the art/life trail and to the third Wednesday installment where BD and I take turns sharing our tree farm adventure…today we go inside to see the space that welcomes us once we dream of moving from this to the next step… After 2.5 years […]

Adding Grace to Your Pace

Welcome to the art/life trail! How exciting it is to begin our yearly journey through The Mystery. Each Natural/Circadian year, between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox, offers us the time to reconnect to the power of the Unknown and the Not-to-be-known. What would life be without the opportunity to be curious and open-minded? What intrigue […]

Are You Scurrying?

Welcome to the art/life trail! In October something wonderful emerges. A shift happens. You can look over your shoulder (as you step further into the autumn) and see what’s happened since spring. Time to reflect upon where you’ve been, how you’ve been With whom you’ve been engaged.   Take a Moment and Pause Create a […]

Cross Quarter and the Six Weeks Ahead…

Welcome to the art/life trail! It’s Imbolc/Candlemas the cross-quarter day midpoint between solstice and equinox. A deeply quiet time when our culture checks to see if the groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, foretells more winter. However you tap in it’s apparent that this is a point of shift in the energy in which we live and move and […]

The Mystery Explored

Welcome to the art/life trail! This week we pause and ponder The Mystery as we also engage a renewed relationship with Natural Time…join us for the free 8-Day Challenge… Register Here Taking command for the highest creative connection…a most wondrous part of the path in each Natural Year. Hail!, Drozda, Acrylic/canvas, 24 x 36″ Creative […]

Whatayathinkin’?

Welcome to this week on the trail! It’s the Growth moon cycle and time to push into the area of your art/life where you sense expansion happening. How does your Creative Garden Grow?   Wren House Garden, Drozda, 2016 The wind, too, scattered seeds. As the water reappeared, so there reappeared willows, rushes, meadows, gardens, […]