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The main reason for the recent road trip to New Mexico was to experience The Mandala Center in Des Moines, New Mexico. What would it be like stay in this beautiful retreat center dedicated to personal and spiritual growth? Would it be as wonderful as the website photos and descriptions? My friend [...]
ROAD TRIP – I am soon off to New Mexico for a Heart Journey Road Trip with a dear friend. It is a heart journey in more ways than one. It’s off to cities, high deserts and mountain lands. Santa Fe, The Mandala Center in Des Moines, Taos and Abiquiu here we come.
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I’ve been busy having lazy art days. These are days when I feel wrapped up in the present, in a flow of creativity that guides me along like a river.
I call these days lazy in that I sometimes work all day in my pajamas, don’t answer the phone, leave the [...]
Monday was the new moon. A new moon is the time to plant intentions and wishes. Like seeds in the ground, or babies in the womb, they germinate and grow during this time of darkness.
My monthly mandala making get together took place on Sunday, the eve before the new [...]
Mandalas are circular images that bring us to our center and open our awareness to the cycles and wholeness of life.
The round mandala shape seen in nature, from the smallest cell to the eternal cosmos is all around us. Let these mandala images from the wonderful artists who have opened up [...]
I was away from this blog for a few weeks, too much to do. Two art shows (one I was in charge of and it poured rain all day), my garden on a garden tour, a mandala art workshop, garden designs and installs, and other commitments all added up to three weeks and weekends of [...]
One of my mandala students and a friend, brings the most wonderful short quotes to our monthly Mandala Making get togethers. One day she wrote “Send My Roots Rain” in her art making.
This quote has sustained me as a prayer, as I am sure the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins felt when he [...]
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