Love needs Nurturing Every Day Valentine’s Day, grammar school, the only ‘rule’ was to give one to everybody. If we gave cards, put each kid’s name on one. Cookies, and even the mothers of the boys often made them bring a box to school, had to be carried by the bringer as he walked around…… Continue Reading
The Mental World is a Sticky Business It sucks you in. It’s like a Carnival side show that holds your undivided attention. A scary movie that keeps you glued to the screen. Monkey Mind obsesses, as outlandish thoughts keep the masses hypnotized, astounded, and limited. Chemicals course through our bodies with every emotion, playing havoc…… Continue Reading
Happy Imbolc! An Ancient Holiday of Destiny and Fertility As the days start to get a little longer, and winter loosens its tight hold on the land, the Celts honored the natural order with major celebrations to move the energy of the Seasons forward. The Great Festival of Imbolc, beginning at sundown of Jan. 31,…… Continue Reading
Earth Mother is the Goddess Herself, and She Has Knowledge to Share Ancients have known Her as Gaia, Danu, Tara, Mut, Shikena, Ninsun, Asherah, Pachamama, Hathor, Durga, Shakti, and Rhea. Thousands of Earth Mother fertility figures have been found worldwide, dating back 35,000 years. Her songs are of love, abundance, and beauty, as well as…… Continue Reading
The Land Holds a Memory of All the Energies that have Come Before. Emotionally charged gatherings, whenever people have come together to remember, chant, light fires, dance, sing, and tell their stories of life, love, and death, leave their mark on the Earth Mother. The Earth remembers and these sites become Sacred Ground. Our histories,…… Continue Reading
How do You Find Your Inspiration? The Turquoise Cliffs above have been in my mind’s eye for a few days. They were so vivid, I thought I had painted them before. Searching through my ‘archives’ produced nothing. So I made some samples and then a video demo of the making of this painting for YouTube.…… Continue Reading
Prequels Link All You Have Been, To All You Are Becoming Prequels are everywhere. Look at the excellent ‘Rogue One’ prequel to the entire Star Wars Saga, with its amazing representation of Grand Moff Tarkin and cruisers, pilots, and robots we have all learned to love with each movie. It beautifully shows us all…… Continue Reading
Winter Solstice Longest Night of the Year “Nothing can cure the soul but the senses just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul” Oscar Wilde Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year, is a time of Dreaming. There’s a place I go, a cave within the heart. Fox leaps & dances in…… Continue Reading
Keeping Balance in my Personal Patriarchal Overload The Microcosm reflects the Macrocosm! Surrounded by workers installing new cathedral windows before winter ‘really’ hits, and nursing a husband who has returned from a trip with bronchitis that hopefully is not pneumonia, I had to take stock of my situation and find ways to express my creativity.…… Continue Reading
Being Needed is a Virtue, Being Needy is Not… We’ve all heard of the unhealthiness of a relationship based on neediness. When you do anything to keep a situation going even to the point of losing yourself, your identity, your goals and dreams just to please or save another person, it leaves you empty, drained,…… Continue Reading
