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Life is too precious to rush.
Making art teaches me– that life is too precious to rush. I don’t want to miss any miracles. And there are always miracles unfolding. It takes time to truly become conscious of how art opens the doors of perception and reveals the deeper parts of the soul. Drawing, painting demands that I slow down. Hand […]
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Remember to look at the sky.
Sometimes I get scared. Overwhelmed Shut down. Oh– these endless yammering clamouring thoughts. Inner turmoil. Craziness. What’s wrong with me? It’s just the old wounds weeping. Just the old anguish re-instating itself. It’s just the ancient inherited sorrow of my ancestors– Mourning their loved ones. Grieving their losses. It’s just the old trauma, My trauma, […]
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Accepting uncertainty and living the questions in life and art.
“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Live in the question.” Rainer Maria Rilke I love these words. I try to call them up when I face uncertainty I am in the middle of developing an idea that is slowly forming in my mind. I don’t know if it is […]
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Full Moon coming July 3rd. Get your wishes ready
Getting ready for making wishes on the full moon, July 3rd. I used to have tea parties with my friend Rachel once a month before she moved to Boston. She taught me the different names of the full moons, as they appear through the wheel of the year. The last one was the strawberry moon […]
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What are you longing for?
“What you seek is seeking you.” ― Rumi Today I am sharing an intuitive painting. Just for fun I added a little digital magic to the painting this evening. Click on the picture below and see if you notice a little bit of extra magic. Not everyone can see it. This painting emerged when my […]
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Preparation and effort–Ideas as tools.
“Creativity is not a gift from the Gods bestowed by some divine and mystical spark. It is the product of preparation and effort and it’s within reach of everyone who wants to achieve it.” Twyla Tharp. I love this quote and I believe it– I am perhaps a little more of the mind that magic […]
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On Moths and purpose and creative process and such
Metamorphosis is a profound change, from one stage to the next, in the life of an organism, as from the caterpillar to the pupa and from the pupa to the moth. I think I am in my moth stage right now. After months as a pupa, I am emerging from my cocoon and ready for something, […]
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Life Lessons
Another post from my journal a few years ago. Sometimes I think that the lessons of my life have been delivered in a series of disasters and catastrophes. It is as if I somehow needed to go sailing in a little paper boat, during a raging storm, in order to learn about the need for […]
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Some work in progress–The beginning of a story-reposting to inspire myself to finish it.
This is the beginning of a story that I scribbled down in the coffee shop. It showed up in my notebook today like this. My grandmother was quiet and mysterious and knew mysterious things. She was part gypsy, at least that is what I grew up believing. She could heal wounds, and cure sickness, and […]
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Creativity, Anxiety, Fearlessness
Fear can be transformed to courage. It can. It really can– but only when you face it. If I can face it you can. Last year at this time I decided to be fearless–and do something that I had wanted to do, for a very long time. Deciding to be fearless, actually increased my fear. […]
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The morning ramble.
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. Ursula Le Guin I think that creative people struggle with the idea of recognition. There is something about feeling like a show off and being made to feel […]
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