Allow your Passion to be your Guiding Force throughout the day! Each day, I make time for Play. Creative Play. Daydreaming time touched by some insight that seems to float into my awareness. When I listen to what I’m inspired to do, it’s touched with passion, originality, and the inner creative force. If I sat…… Continue Reading
Freedom to me was escaping from an 8-4:00 ‘job’. I loved teaching high school, but I was locked into an established schedule. Be there, parked, mailbox checked, classroom doors opened by 7:45 for that first 8:00 class. Five classes of 28 students each every day, a 45 min lunch break, a homeroom, possibly study hall…… Continue Reading
Schedule Down time to increase pleasure, recharge, and dream! Get away from ‘busyness’, and relish the moment. Whenever you tremember to SAVOR the moment, the meal, the glass of wine or piece of chocolate, the body immediately slows down. Savoring must be done ‘off the clock’, away from technology, and can be a nurtured feeling.…… Continue Reading
Flameless candles, iphone cameras, deep dark web, driverless cars! It sure feels like we’re living in a multi-dimensional world! Not that long ago, many people didn’t have a camera, coffee had to be brewed by the pot, items had to be plugged into wall sockets, people read newspapers for the latest info, and food had…… Continue Reading
I was up at 5:00 am today, capturing my gems of inspiration. Inspiration has been on my mind a lot lately. It’s as fleeting as wisps of a dream upon awakening. It’s like delicate clouds of puff that dissipate quickly. I remember hearing an Elizabeth Gilbert tape where she spoke of a poet who would…… Continue Reading
Rainy Summer Days are Perfect Movie Days! Tomorrowland, here I come. Yesterday I was transported back to my 12 yr old self. The dark movie theater, fresh popcorn, a Walt Disney movie, and me….all the alchemy needed to immerse myself into non-thinking mode, and be carried back in time. “Tomorrowland” sounded like fun, but I…… Continue Reading
Learning to Cope with Stress Changes your Baseline brain imagery. Resilience, learning to deal with traumatic, stressful conditions, big and small, is a true life-saver. A fascinating article in the May 16, issue of Time magazine, tells of 20 yr research by two psychiatrists who have found a way to image the brain before resilient…… Continue Reading
In art, the best results often happen with least materials. Just using red, yellow, and white, with the right technique, can lead to amazing, satisfying results. It’s an interesting way art works. Once we learn the ‘secret’ technique to doing it, it becomes so easy, fast, and fun. Layers of color build up just as…… Continue Reading
Shifting gears, leaving jobs, used to be such a big deal! Heart wrenching, sleepless nights, grieving over what was left behind, used to be the way change happened in my life. Now, it just feels like I’m playing a different game. Not going in the old direction, keeping up with the old crowd of doing,…… Continue Reading
It’s so interesting to me how this process works! I let thinking get the better of me yesterday. Working with oil pastels on a new Wabi Sabi project for the soon to be offered online classes, had me including way too much info, working on far too large of a format, and developing just plain…… Continue Reading
