Energies of Creation

Stepping on a rattlesnake is an experience that burns into memory with laser like intensity. I only did it once, but I have total recall of feeling the sudden squish underfoot while hearing the rattle and then finding myself standing 20 feet away looking where I had been.
That moment gave me a […]

About thirty years ago I was told I might have lymph cancer. My mother had lymph cancer so I already owned a most unpleasant knowledge of the disease. I sat on top of a small mountain near my home and considered my choices. I was not afraid of dying, but I decided I was not […]

This painting is the visible apex of a multifaceted creative adventure. I painted it at a time my gardens were undergoing rapid expansion, particularly with thousands of my favorite poppies, those amazing Shirley poppies. These gardening projects were propelled by the energy processes I use on a daily basis. Both Reiki and the Perelandra nature […]

The Five Rules of Successful Growth
What could we possibly learn from puppies about success? They are adorable, no question about that, but what qualities intrinsic to successful growth do they possess?

1. Puppies are openhearted to the world. Puppies invoke a positive response in almost everyone they meet. This is indisputably a quality worth emulating. An approach […]

I live in a difficult cold climate with a short growing season so luscious vine ripened tomatoes are hard to find here. Outdoors the tomato plants resent the cool nights of our summers and rarely ripen fruit. Since I love tomatoes right off the vine, I grow my plants in a large hoop house.
Over time […]

As an artist I am discovering there indeed is life after writing a book. Months of intense immersion in paints and words have created their own compelling rhythm from which I slowly extricate myself.
In an unexpected career opportunity, over a year ago, Quarto in London contacted me. They had discovered my work on the internet […]

When I saw the blog carnival title, “Carnival of Struggling Bumbling Newbies” I knew I had found my natural home. I have gone through great upheaval launching my embryonic blog due to a serious lack of knowledge of PHP and MySql, among a long list of other things.
Have any of you read the recent research […]

Art, like anything else, has its highs and lows and learning to manage them is essential to developing as an artist. Otherwise the creative process suffers.
The other day I received a distressed phone call from a woman who had become utterly discouraged with her oil painting. An accomplished artist in other media, she began […]

I have had some interesting responses to my post on Love, Fear, and Minorities. Some have agreed and some have disagreed, which is rather to be expected. Areas of disagreement are often where the most potential for new understanding lies, so I do not object to disagreement in itself.
I do object to people disagreeing, not […]

I constantly use Crystalline Consciousness Technique™, also called CCT, on a daily basis for both personal and group healing and evolution. This new modality is a specific energy process designed to rapidly propel intentions into manifestation. While CCT works well on the personal level, it has its fullest expression in group matters. These groups […]