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Love takes flight

Feel what’s going on within you.  What energy is moving through you.. where is this sitting in your body?   I am constantly amazed at how I can feel down, negative, irritable, fearful, worrisome… and another time, light.  Balanced. Open. Free. My awareness, focus, centered on love.

Two messages I received today caused me to stop and take a good look at this.  We are touched by someone’s wisdom, or a kindness and our hearts open wider.  I can now pass that beautiful energy on to another in however form that person needs… to my unawares that he or she may even be receiving it.

That’s how angels work in our lives.  All our relationships on this earth are to help us grow and transform.. sometimes through their difficulties and challenges and at other times through their example of love and generosity.  Blessings are found amongst us all, we just need to keep our eyes open or more importantly our hearts open and minds quiet.

Giving ourself some precious time of quiet.. listening.  What messages come from deep within your own Truth?

Envision yourself embraced by the comfort of angel wings.. softly encasing you in warmth and tenderness.  Wrapped in this light, welcome what needs to surface from deep within you and listen.  Listen to that Voice of Wisdom that we all hold but the external chatter of the world keeps at bay… let it out and sail on its endless, and limitless sea of possibilities…………. let it take flight, allowing your heart to soar far and wide, encompassing this magnificent universe of even more possibilities

ok, nice to look back and reminisce every once in a while, but it’s time to move forward… one step at a time.

nice to look into the future, but let’s face it… too much is unpredictable.  So where else is there to go?

Just be where you are. Now.  After all, that’s all there really is anyway. Whether you’re looking back or looking forward, you are still doing that from the “now” position.  And right now, I cannot upload a picture and not sure why…….

Hubby and I have a week off.  Our intention is to do some cleaning up, rearranging, releasing what we don’t need anymore… letting go of what we have outgrown.  Funny thing about this is that it brings one back in time.  I remember when…    And this picture did just that.  A few years back I was part of a yahoo group.. Gloria Page’s Holy Moly Mackaroly’s book inpired the group… and we did a flat self journal.  I met some wonderful people through that project.. even traveling to Peru with one!!!  Fun stuff.  Me and hubby would take flat people with us every where and would get the strangest looks, even in the city.

So this week I am sure I’ll come across stuff that I will hesitate to get rid of.  One closet holds all sorts of stuff and it’ll be like excavating the past.

It’s kind of fun to look back though to see where you have been and how far you’ve come, especially when it comes to one’s art.  I know “that closet” holds a lot of my paintings.

Let the journey begin!

Here is the finished version.  Taking the path of heart.. that is my “theme” for myself this year. Following the path of the Middle Way, the path of heart which lies between the Earth and Sky.  I received a lot of comments from this piece.

Tomorrow I take the show down and we’ve both decided to store it in the spare bedroom until we figure where to next…

This was such a great experience for me and John and we had so much fun with it. Pictures are on the other blog www.anartisticyear.blogspot.com/    So, go see and click on pictures for close- ups.

This is an older shrine that I did. Between the Earth and Sky lies the path of the Heart.  The middle way – one of balance.  It is found in the present moment.

Heart Path

It will be “altered” a bit for the show.  Adding and changing some things.

Funny how a piece grows and evolves.. or is it us

words to live by

Staying mindful, being present.  These are goals, ways of being that I intend to keep in my life.

Share talents with love.

Commune with Nature.

Live Simply.

Find the Sacred in everything.

Keep balance.

Love Deeply.

A happy Place

Going to our Happy Place to relax, rejuvenate and take in the energy of mountains and water.

Sacred Waters

This is where we will go to every day to refresh our souls… for me a sacred place, one that brings me back to balance.  See ya when we get back with some new pictures.  Namaste’

where to shop

Have you ever wanted to get out of the box you’ve enclosed yourself in?  Our outer appearances can be misleading to the world..  hiding behind blandness..   Are you moderate in your dress, blend into the background… or are you loud, screaming out to the world, “look at me??”

Most of the times, I blend. Casual dress, bordering on the sloppy at times.  I dress to work and for comfort.  Paint stains live on a  lot of my clothes and I get to the point where I need to go out and shop!  Buy something fresh, a bit edgy, different, artsy…. cause a head to turn.  There have been times (many times in my youth) I have “screamed” out loud with my clothing… it can be fun.    More often than not, I blend.

After I doodled this, I saw that there are two and possibly three critters off to shop.. and I wonder which clothing store they’ll choose.  Choose something different, create your own fashion statement… but don’t let it sit in your closet either

What is it with Internet Explorer anyway…. I know others out there have had a problem and it has been giving me grief.  I went in through netscape.. but lose my “favorites” this way.   I have the day off.. kind of… car is in the shop and I’m finally finishing up the chair for a client.

It’s a drizzly sort of day, so it helps to keep me in…  I think I’ll try “restore”.. and then firefox download.  Maybe it’s just the Universe forcing me to be open to new things… try something new. Change.  Explore.  Stretching beyond the predictable routine I find myself in.

This full moon was in my 5th house.. house of  creative expression.  With that in mind, I’ve decided to explore those possibilities.. move into another direction.  On that note.. I’m going into the art room

There are some advantages to my “summer job”.  It is the environment.  There are a few camps and long ago I decided to work at this location.  It’s in a park next to a lake.  When I first began teaching art at camp, the groups were small.  I had a small craft hut with some picnic tables right outside.  A small zoo right behind the craft hut.  Peacocks, rabbits, donkey, pigs…  One of the  guys that took care of the park would gift me with peacock feathers that would be shed. 

Zoo is long gone, as is the craft hut.  Now I’m under a large tent that sits besides the lake.  When the heat rises, the kids out of control.. I go to the swans.  Sometimes I spend some of my lunch just watching.  Last year I was focused on a catepillar that kept coming into the art tent.  This year it’s the swans.

We  chat.. I protect them from junk food and stuff thrown over the fence as best I can.  It is calming and I’ve collected a few of their feathers.  My mandala friend Sue created a beautiful mandala from some that I sent her… take a look… http://sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com/

and then the butterfly visited, sitting in the middle of the geese and swans, allowing me to take it’s picture as well………