brush painting

Finding “It” January 11, 2015

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Makes you feel alive

Your senses on edge, it’s real

Spend a day…a life.

Art Prescription:  What makes you feel alive? When you wake in the morning and put two feet on the ground, what gives you that feeling of “Yes!” Okay…well do that more.

Wildflower Meadow 8 1/2 x 11 watercolor

Wildflower Meadow

Outside Looking In January 8, 2015

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Warm glow from windows

Folks settle, evening time

January chill.

Art Prescription:  As I walk in the dusk and see all the warmly lit homes, it reminds me of how fortunate we all are. I’m so grateful that at the flip of a switch I can get warmer. Simple daily pleasures. Wish all mankind and creatures warmth…

Art Journal

art journal january

In Spirit January 3, 2015

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Farm sanctuary

Fresh air, a religion

Horses my teachers.

Art Prescription:  I’ve spent much of my holiday time out at the farm. It occurs to me that I’m learning patience, tolerance, and that throwing bales of hay to horses is extremely therapeutic!! Lovely views…

Art Journal Collage.

art journal farm

Per Thoreau December 30, 2014

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Direction of dreams

Success in common hours

A life imagined.

Art Prescription:  2014 is rolling out…2015 is rolling in. What successes in unexpected common hours do you desire? What endeavors and dreams do you have?

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of dreams, and endeavors to live the life imagined, she/he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

-Henry David Thoreau

8 1/2 x 11 watercolor

marsala gown 3

Thick Fog December 23, 2014

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A deep thick grey fog

Settles across open field

A flock of geese graze.

Art Prescription:  There is something soothing about fog. The way it just lazily lingers…making everything a bit out of focus. To stand in tree pose in yoga I find a soft gaze most beneficial. When I try too hard…my balance gets all out of whack. Perhaps we don’t always need to see so clearly!! A little bit softer now…

.index card fog

Colored pencil on index card.

Spirit of Christmas Past December 22, 2014

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Christmas tangerines

In a pretty box with nuts

Under grandma’s tree.

Art Prescription:  The holidays can be rough. Seems family dynamics are amplified. The world is spinning too fast. And most of us just want it to be over so our lives can get back to normal. Did our grandparents feel this way? I have some pretty super memories of simple gifts of fruit and nuts under my grandmother’s multi-colored light tree. I think we expect way too much out of ourselves!! Go easy…

Index card

index card christmas past