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Wrapping Up 2024
As has been the case for the past 2-3 years, I was inspired again this year to pull a 12 x 12″ sheet of Dixie All Purpose Food Wrap from my seemingly endless stash so I could create hand-painted wrapping paper to provide visual pizzazz to two money gifts. Satisfying last-minute venture partway through Christmas… Continue reading
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Bookmarking Joy in December, 7
Way back in the day, year after year, I baked cookies, cookies, cookies for sharing during the Christmas season. Now, it seems, I “bake” bookmarks, bookmarks, bookmarks. Back in the day, a new friend was likely to receive a plate of cookies in December. Now, a new friend just might receive a bookmark instead. Bookmark… Continue reading
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Bookmarking Joy in December, 6
from a place in my heart, a signal to my hands:putter joyfully! Continue reading
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Bookmarking Joy in December, 5
My daughter Meg informed me many years ago that the image she carries of me in her mind is of my head’s moving through space of its own volition, trailing my body behind it and my toes’ dragging along barely touching the ground. Enter qigong! I practice it both in a wonderful class on Monday… Continue reading
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Bookmarking Joy in December, 4
It is my great grand good fortune to participate in a yoga class that nourishes me week after week, a class I bumped into in the unlikeliest of ways. That story: had a mammogram a few years back. Results not definitive. Had to have a repeat done at a different facility. Met afterwards with ‘my’… Continue reading
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Bookmarking Joy in December, 3
I give free rein tomy inner horse—gallop! go!wherever you choose! Continue reading
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Bookmarking Joy in December, 2
cell after cell flowsto apical meristemto become a leaf. Continue reading
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Bookmarking Joy in December, 1
We are now reduced to one significant choice. We can take our stand either on the side of life or on the side of death. This will never be presented to us as one large and final choice, but only as a succession of small choices, continuing to the seventh and the seven-hundredth generation. Because… Continue reading
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Deep Inside
walk deep inside the ordinary sacred paint decisions with me Continue reading
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The Invitation
I received a Llewellyn Skye online downloadable workshop as a gift in 2023. Thank you, Sylvia! That workshop and this resulting painting were such invitations into the gifts of process, a process in this case that turned out to span leisurely months and months, with long pauses en route. Some of the gifts: the delicious… Continue reading
My Story
In 2014, I grab an unexpected opportunity to paint.
To make art.
I get hooked.
In 2015 I start a blog—a diary of my life as an artist.
I post my paintings and their stories. The good, the bad, the ugly.
My compass points: bust through fear, be playful, get messy, trust my gut.
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