True steadfast balance
The rituals of a home
Each day IS your life.
Art Prescription: The way we live each day is the way we live our life!
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Summer’s Hurrah September 13, 2013
Summer’s last hurrah
Big bold pink petunias
Color out to play!
Art Prescription: Play…
Haiku September 8, 2013 Alone, but not Lonely
Glad the birds don’t leave
As summer’s heat fades, my friends
With wings stay around!
Art Prescription: If you follow my blog, you know I’m having trouble letting summer go…the sun, the blooms, the abundance of flowers! I will adjust. I also love fall and the rainbow of color that explodes on trees! Does the season change invoke the explorer in you?
Haiku September 3, 2013 Open to Receive
Open to receive
The river ripples, churns, flows
As creek spills over.
Art Prescription: Are you open to the flow of life? I’m learning too!!
Haiku September 2, 2013 Sounds of Home
Hum of the dryer
Washer gyrates clothes, morning
Cats stretched-out in sun.
Art Prescription: Sounds of a home…daily chores…gratitude.
Haiku September 1, 2013 Art Gift
Garden art fairy
Sketches and paints for shear bliss
A gift to stranger.
Art Prescription: I went to the North Carolina Botanical Gardens today to field sketch. Using pen and ink and watercolor pencils, I worked on 3 x 5 index cards. And as I finished one I gave it to the first person who came by.
Haiku August 31, 2013 Fly
The freedom to fly
Sail above earth and water
Flap your wings, take-off!!
Art Prescription: Do you ever dream you are flying? Soaring above all…
Haiku August 30, 2013 Courage To Change
Dog barks in distance
Low August sun warms shoulders
Pull rock from my shoe.
Art Prescription: How long have I walked with that rock in my shoe? Feeling one-sided, out of balance, slightly annoyed. I heard the constant click as my foot hit the path, but didn’t really stop to see what was there. Like most of life, we have to make a conscious decision to pay attention.
Ah, the decision cascade: If this, then that, and what if? And we limp along.
What if it was really as simple as taking the rock from your shoe and moving on one step at a time!!
ps. the rock will be fine, rocks have their place, that’s how they became rocks…you my friend have become water, dynamic and flowing!
Beautiful Morning August 25,2013
I wish I could put
A morning like this in a
Box, save forever!
Art Prescription: A perfect morning and day…the reason people move to NC. Cool to walk and comfortable to work in garden. I actually did some very productive puttering. I’ve had my years of Bon Appetite magazines in the garage to go through and get my favorite recipes. I know it’s irrational as everything is online, but somehow those actual magazines represent a part of my life. I’m trying to practice letting-go…
Time is a Thief August 23, 2013
Evaporation
Into thin air! Where’s summer?
Time, she is a thief!
Art Prescription: Anyone else feeling like you blinked your eyes and time has moved on? Perhaps this is one of the healing effects of art. You make a mark, there you have left evidence of your precious life! Art moves us…
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