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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 [...]
I meant to blog during my recent week long road trip through New Mexico, but the trip was so beautiful and powerful it kept me outside and within myself in a state of awe and enchantment.
It began on the road from Albuquerque to Santa Fe where the most time was spent on [...]
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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Today I am very sad, as I have been since Monday when I learned that my cousin’s daughter had suddenly lost her life. Alesondra was a beautiful young woman who touched many lives and is one of the threads in the cloth of a close-knit family that reaches far and wide.
A friend of [...]
A recent visit to my son’s new home in California included a trip to Bean Hollow Beach.
Bean Hollow Beach is a California State Beach on the Pacific, south of Pescadero.
It is known for its unusual rock formations called Tafoni.
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 [...]
My security blanket for travel is the bag of art supplies I take along to not only work with, but to give me comfort. Inside are papers, markers, colored pencils, writing pens, watercolors and a small chinese brush.
If for some reason when I travel, if I can’t take art supplies with [...]
Some days I need the beauty and quiet of holy places. One of the places that calms my soul is the St. Louis Cathedral Basilica.
The air is rich with the light of the magnificent mosaics. I look for the mandala patterns.
Slow Art Day officially takes place this year on April 28th. But perhaps it should be held on Valentine’s Day each year, because Slow Art is really about loving art in a way we often share with loved ones.
Spending slow time gazing into a loved one’s face, seeing all the detail [...]
I met Christine’s husband at Shaw Nature Reserve years ago. We went to a ceremonial prairie planting with Native American drums that sang to the seeds as they drifted to the receiving earth. Christine and her family used to live inside this magical place, and now have a country [...]
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 [...]
Happy Holidays. The artist is Hawley Wright. The postcards are from the greeting card company I created called Wild Rice Cards, based in Minneapolis in the 1980s. The twelve days of Christmas start on Christmas Day or Boxing Day, depending. Whatever your celebration this time of year, have a wonderful holiday.
Personal snail mail is a joy to send and receive, especially if there is a colorful handmade envelope made from paper that would normally be thrown in the recycling bin. This week I got to make envelopes for thank you notes for my very special book group friends. We exchanged gifts last weekend. [...]
Each holiday season I make these cookies from a recipe I created that was part of a greeting card illustrated by my friend Hawley Wright.
I visited Monet’s garden at Giverny in the fall. I also visited the large waterlily pond paintings in the Paris museum designed by Monet to display them. Seeing both was the most powerful art and garden experience I ever had.
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