IF I HAD WINGS – 21X36 – ACRYLIC ON BOARD My concept of “old” was much different when I was 12. I remember hearing about a college student who was killed in a car accident. He was 28 yrs. old. My thought, at that time, was at least he had lived a long time and it wasn’t …
Let’s Dance Tonight Honey There’s a fire burning in the hearth. I have been staring at the flames, feeling gratitude beyond my ability to articulate. Gratitude for this warmth. Gratitude for you. The thought comes to me often to be thankful for everything in my life which has led me to this moment. I am …
Conversation is at the top of my favorite things list. My Dad – and later my sister, Kit – taught me the joy and art of what a conversation is when in its best form. I love turning ideas over. I love being honest with another person. I love trusting another’s intellect and their heart …
STOP TALKING…LEARN TO JUST BE – acrylic on board – 40×30 Joanne Miller and I spoke at a conference this Thursday. Sixty people gathered for Dan Miller’s “Innovate” conference. We were offered 2 days of listening and participating in the search for a way to be more comfortable with our own creative voice. Dan and Joanne began …
As I am thinking of this question, a line from “Dr. Zhivago” comes to mind. Dr. Zhivago is a dreamer, a peaceful man who is being destroyed by the war around him. He says to Lara at one point: “I just want to live”. This desire has joined the “important” group in my list. It is in company with: …
When I was younger, I meditated without knowing that was what I was doing. I would look at a thought from all angles. My Dad taught me to do that. I started getting up with him at 5:30 am on school days when I was 11. I loved those morning hours with him because we had conversations …
“As a man thinks in his heart, so is he” There is a way to add Art to your daily life. Begin by listening to yourself when you wake up in the morning. Find a way to add Art into your relationships. Ways to be your Art: 1. Appearance- What you wear. 2. Time- (redeem …
This is a beginning……….again. You can look yourself in the eye and make a stand against all those obstacles. Or you can give up. Which is it going to be? Probably a mixture. Life is like that, always mixed up. One day you do really well and the next, not so much. But, if you …
Now. Tonight. I want to run away. I want to sell everything I own, and go as far as I can from this moment. From this time. I know that is melodramatic, but that is how I am feeling right now. It isn’t even that the everyday realities are so painful. Nor that they are …
It is morning. the sun is up. the birds outside my window are having a party. It is going to be a lovely day. My routine is to get up, go down the stairs. and drink a cup of chai on the little patio outside. Its a soft place to land while contemplating the …
