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This is the last week for this session of 100 Days for Mandalas, which started January 14th. Where did those 100 days go?
I have been drawn to using regular manila folders for creating art journaling mandalas. The are like mini-books.
In this beautiful, crazy springtime (deep snow one day, flowers the next) the joy of earth and sky seeps into our bones, body and being. Nature calls to us with its mystery and magic and leaves its imprint on our souls.
There is an artist in Poland named Nespoon, who creates what she calls “jewelry for public spaces.” She works with the mandala shape of doilies, those circular lace shapes that maybe your grandma or great grandmother made.
The spiral of life brings us back to a familiar place, which lets us see the old with new eyes and new inspirations. These are inspirations for new mandalas.
Let these heart mandalas and images remind you to keep your heart open every day of the year. As we leave February, bring the heart energy of this month into all the months and days of your year.
Today my only words are to share this beautiful quote by Buddhist Nun Pema Chodron about mandalas
Welcome to Day One of the 2nd session of 100 Days for Mandalas. This is a creativity retreat that will hopefully inspire the making of mandalas. It is a retreat in the quiet time, when the warmth of inner creativity burns as a fire in the center of the soul. There are many ways and reasons to make mandalas. Find your way and your reason, then join in.
My favorite mandala book for 2012 has not only some of the most beautiful simple mandalas I have ever seen, but the true story about how they are created and mysteriously discovered by a French poet in India over twenty-five years ago reads like a combination Indiana Jones and Spiritual Quest adventure story.
MANDALA INFORMATION, INSPIRATIONS & MEDITATION – The ending of 100 Days for Mandalas, Beginnings of a New (stay tuned), and In Between.
ENDINGS – This blog post has been hard to write. This week is the last blog for 100 Days for Mandalas. The official ending date is September 8th. It really isn’t an ending, [...]
MONDAY MANDALA INFORMATION, INSPIRATIONS & MEDITATION
We are in the last weeks of 100 Days for Mandalas. There will be two more blog posts after this one about our creative journey over the summer. The 100th day is September 8th, which is 100 days after the starting date of June 1st. Enjoy these last weeks [...]
MONDAY MANDALA INFORMATION, INSPIRATIONS & MEDITATION
MANDALA PROMPT – THE CALL TO CREATIVITY
We are all called to be givers of our own unique gifts to the world. Sometimes we don’t recognize we are co-creators of this world and this world calls to us to share our gifts. We are all [...]
MONDAY MANDALA INFORMATION, INSPIRATIONS & MEDITATION
This week’s theme – EARTH– is inspired by week seven’s mandala called “Sacred Elements of Life: Air, Earth, Water, Fire”. Earth is our mother. It is the soil that lets the plants germinate in its womb of darkness and reach for [...]
MONDAY MANDALA INFORMATION, INSPIRATIONS & MEDITATION
MANDALA PROMPT – AIR
This week’s theme – air – is inspired by week seven’s mandala called “Sacred Elements of Life: Air, Earth, Water, Fire”. Air is our atmosphere. It holds the oxygen that sustains our life as we and other animals breath. It [...]
MONDAY MANDALA INFORMATION, INSPIRATION & MEDITATIONRiverside Mandala by Christine Torlina at a river in Missouri
MANDALA PROMPT – WATER
This week’s theme – water – is inspired by last week’s mandala called “Sacred Elements of Life: Air, Earth, Water, Fire”. The balance of the four elements sustain life on earth. [...]
MONDAY (actually Tuesday) MANDALA INFORMATION, INSPIRATION & MEDITATION
Sacred Elements of Life: Air, Earth, Water, Fire mandala – by Sister Corlita Bonnarens
MANDALA PROMPT
This beautiful mandala by Corlita Bonnarens is the inspiration for this week’s mandala prompt. As we enter the middle of 100 Days for Mandalas (today is day [...]
MONDAY MANDALA INFORMATION, INSPIRATION & MEDITATION
Nature’s Inspiration & Making Marks
MANDALA PROMPT
Humankind has made marks of patterns and images upon many surfaces. Those that have survived the longest are on stone. Nature herself makes patterns and images in many forms of creation. Take time to see mandala patterns – [...]
MONDAY (actually Tuesday) MANDALA INFORMATION, INSPIRATIONS & MEDITATION
Images and Words
Calla Lily Mandala with words by Tina Sparks
MANDALA PROMPT
We experience life through our senses. We see, taste, smell, hear and feel through touch. Our imagination lets us experience through these senses. An image is what we see, [...]
MONDAY MANDALA INFORMATION, INSPIRATIONS & MEDITATION
Celebration of the days of long light
MANDALA PROMPT
Be inspired by the light of the long days and the sun that shines its white light down and illuminates our world. This white light holds all the colors of the rainbow. These colors are [...]
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