Go for the Gold!

Welcome to our first post in June! We’re on the art/life trail ride and the keyword each June is Illumination. Our challenge this moon/month is to be bright and radiant! Are you ready to shine? Here is a reminder of one gift we received in this year’s Lifecycle Forecast: “In 2016, dispose of the old. […]

Resist and Persist

This week we travel deep into the ‘Wisdom’ Moon cycle (May 6 – June 5, 2016). Change is afoot “A blueprint for our lives is as necessary as a blueprint for a house. It doesn’t serve us well to keep trying to build an igloo in the congo. Joanne Silver, artist Welcome to this week […]

Let Your Body Sing

Welcome to the art/life trail ride! It’s the third week in the Clarity cycle (April 7 – May 6) the element that kicks off this Natural Year is fire. ‘Homage’, Drozda, Acrylic/board, 20 x 16″ Be ignited and lit up! Find the idea and inspiration that has motivation and momentum…power and thrust! Cast your vision […]

Back in the Saddle

Hello and Welcome to the art/life trail ride … Happy New Moon in Aries! April 7 marks the start of our Natural New Year! This is an exciting time and we’re hopping back into the saddle! YeeHaa!! Here on the trail we align with Natural Time which nourishes instinctive and wild creative power. We’ve been […]

Into the Liminal

Welcome to our first week on the February art/life trail ride. This week we take a moment to be grateful for the space that we created during January’s Clearing. ‘Marsh Morning’: from ‘My Island Home’,  Drozda, Acrylic on canvas, 1989. 54 x 40″  Now, for February, we turn our attention toward breathing in Renewal. Renewing […]

Shake Your Wings

December Sky at my retreat farm, Drozda You knock at the door of reality. You shake your wings, loosen your shoulders, and open. Rumi Welcome to our weekly art/life trail ride…Like many of us I stepped back from routine last week to be with family. I’m deeply grateful to have a wonderful and funny clan […]

Do You Mind?

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and look at them long and long. Walt Whitman Welcome to our weekly art/life trail ride. Were you able to pause, ponder and piddle last week with a bit of putzing added? It was excellent to hear from […]

Howz’it Goin?

The trick is to Treat Welcome to the art/life trail ride…we are well into the fall segment of the path and the tricks and treats abound. For example…I had this post completely written and saved and as I hit the button to publish the entire post disappeared. I cannot find it.  TRICK!! The treat is […]

It took me 30 years and 6 months to write this blog…

I’ve been curious and wondering how I would get back onto the blogging horse after abruptly falling off several months ago. Painful. Not majorly painful…not like many losses in life can be…certainly not life altering…yet perhaps each of us in our own way can relate to the leaving of something and then not being able to pick […]