In this moment, now
I feel peace, content, and safe
A mantra for all.
Index card:

In this moment, now
I feel peace, content, and safe
A mantra for all.
Index card:

Doors beckon us in
Whether real or in our minds
What’s on other side?
Art Prescription: Is there a lock? Are we afraid? Are we brave? Are we curious? Do we want change? Well…
Index card with watercolor:

The power of choice
To live without the reruns
Move forward in joy!
Art Prescription: Every day we are offered choices on how we want to live our days…and how we live our days is how we live our lives. One day at a time I choose to move forward in joy! Wanna come?
Index card with watercolor:

A July heat wave
No amount of sweet iced-tea
Cools rumpled feathers!
Art Prescription: Does everyone’s feathers seem rumpled? Or is it just HAWT out there?
Index card with watercolor and pen and ink:

From red kayak bow
The lake stretches out deep blue
Big clouds float above.
Art Prescription: Just me and my first mate went “boating” today…kayaking. It was so fun and beautiful and peaceful. Nothing but us, blue skies, and a lake that went on forever. Bliss!
Index card with watercolor:

Surest way to hear
The soft strains of harmony
Is in the silence.
Art Prescription: My way to refuel from life’s demands is to go sit in a field with horses in pure silence. I listen to birds, cicadas, squirrels foraging, the horses snorting and chomping on grass. And in that big expanse, I realize how precious life is, how important it is to feed your soul. Everyone is different. For me quiet gifts fill me up, and I’m am so grateful for the simple.
Index card with watercolor:

Alone in the field
I feel small and listen for
Wisdom of horses.
Art Prescription: “Take it to the horses,” she said. Take it to the horses, and take a shower, and then think about life. Thank you Deborah!
I spent a couple of hours sketching en plein air today. Ink on index cards:

Perfect summer fruit
Just needs salt, pepper and bread!
Sandwich masterpiece.
Art Prescription: Nothing compares to a good tomato sandwich!
Index card with colored pencil:

Living is easy
Summertime and sweet nectar
Things with wings gather.
Art Prescription: Index card with colored pencil and watercolor…

Hunter wanna be
Slips out the door routinely
Inside panther cat.
Art Prescription: My two cats are content as they can be, inside lazing around. But not my third cat
Matisse!! Matisse howls incessantly to go outside, and he slips under my feet like a bolt of lightening when I go out the door, escaping into the big outdoors. He usually stops short of the driveway and dives into the grass. It’s a dilemma! I know I love outdoors, but safety comes first. I allow him to explore sometimes with me chasing behind him as if he were a toddler.
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