Dare 2 Feel

Birdsong is a world somewhere between
Sunlight and shadow whisper
memories of spring
swaying silently in air
New flight leaves sorrow in despair
as sun alights the small bird’s wing
kisses everywhere
and everything
Source: theinnercoach

I am painting a Spirit Painting for a child who I have not met. At this stage in the painting, I felt so compelled to do “ancient light”, the light of the world as it has given sunshine to the planet long before our understanding of time. This child has knowing as golden as the [...]

I like to make a single brush stroke and then see what comes to mind. These three are people created out of just playing around with some extra paint and having fun making quick strokes and dabs. Being creative is to play, feeling joy is to feel playful! I get into a real great place [...]

This is a Spirit Painting I was commissioned to do recently. Sabina Walton asked me to meditate on her and create a painting while entering this prayer state. I was honored and am blessed to have been asked to do this. I was, as always when regarding another in this spiritual way, very moved by [...]

I was in Boston bringing artwork to The Arsenal Center for the Arts for a group exhibition this month. I stayed with my friend Connie Henry who is a seriously wonderful, loving math educator/professional for the Boston Public Schools. I believe her official title is Elementary Mathematics Program Director, Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction. She [...]

The light that is moving energy, that is the wisdom of ancient knowing, that is love and is ever becoming more light. I began seeing orbs years ago, and asked my Cherokee mentor what were they? They feel as spiritually radiant as my idea of angels. She said, “Those are the babies.” I was surprised [...]

We carry a fruitful bough with us, where our heart is. All day it is there with us. We work, we focus on things, we eat, we talk, but always there is the heart, filled with memory and feeling, opening and protecting all at once, a delicately blooming tree. We are under that tree, in [...]

Light and shadows captivate me. The way buildings are illuminated by light, ever changing. Long, dramatic shadows reaching on a clear blue sky day had me besotted on Main Street yesterday.
People are more compelling, though. One woman casually strode around in black heels and a purple suit, no overcoat (it was finally warm enough). And [...]

I did this drawing one day when I was imagining being able to move like a cat. So I visualized shape-shifting into one. While I drew this, I was feeling a flexible catness, and then I realized that just thinking of a cat would send energy catword, and I decided a cat would know this. [...]

Too often drawing is another way to put yourself down. I’ve heard many people say, especially children, who are the best drawers in the world, “I can’t draw, I’m not good at it.” I want to say that drawing for me in school was a criminal offense. If you were caught drawing, that was IT. [...]