Energies of Creation

Aaron Potts over at Today is That Day posted about an interesting topic being used for a group blogging project, “The Ultimate Guide to Productivity, What’s Your Secret?” The project was originated by Ben at the Instigator Blog. This gave me pause as I thought about my own productivity strengths and weaknesses.
In my business as […]

Plato, our 9 ½ year old Aussie mix, was one of a litter of 9 puppies abandoned in the fall on my friend’s patio in Missouri. I arrived the next spring and Plato was the only one left. She was 8 months old, pregnant, and had been hit by a car and lost half her […]

Special notice, please check out this link and also this link and do research of your own. Just found out about this quiet maneuvering and I do not appreciate it one bit! I definitely do not want the FDA regulating everything from raw juices to massage stones to energy work out of existence […]

My husband, Bern, went on a hunting trip with Dan, who hunts in a completely masochistic manner. They hiked in rough wooded terrain almost straight up from around 5000 feet of altitude to about 9000 feet altitude. As they crested the top, an icy blast of wind hit them.
Bern’s heart went wildly out of rhythm. […]

Three days ago I sprained my left knee trying not to trample our puppy who had gotten tangled underfoot. The knee was screaming inside at the least pressure or wrong movement. After working hard on several projects all week I was also quite tired. In short, I was not a person at that time that […]

Integrating our little border collie and spaniel mix puppy into a studio/gallery environment is challenging, to say the least. The first concern was that Cosmo not chew up the artwork on display. A second concern quickly developed, which was that he not chew up the gallery itself.
I find it disconcerting to be sketching on a […]

Welcome to the Carnival of Creative Growth #2! We have a wide variety of topics in this collection. I thank all of you who submitted your articles to the carnival and ask you each to post a link back to this page. This will help more readers find these articles, which is, after all, the […]

I feel the paint blowing through me
Bearing feathers and flower petals.
An inexorable softness
Shapes the universe
In songs of color.
Note about Lexi Sundell’s painting: “Poppy Dancer” is acrylic on canvas. Other original paintings and prints available at RiverStone Gallery.
 
 
Copyright © Lexi Sundell 2007. All Rights Reserved.

Chiseling holes in the dike with words,
ancient barrier looming invisible,
so long unseen it rises in the fog a mighty surprise.
The unnoticed walls enclose most powerfully,
even if made of crumbling mortar and loose stones.
Unnoticed walls seal the beyond from thought, hope, and desire,
a void does not beckon with enticing possibilities.
One hides from the void, building barriers
and […]

How many of us have been taught stick-to-itiveness is such a wonderful virtue? My father went a trifle overboard on that one.
I once as a child thought I would count to a million. My grasp of anything over a thousand was fairly vague, so I celebrated reaching a million when I got to ten thousand.
My […]