Waves beat against rocks.
Erosion changes shape, form.
Solid becomes sand.
Art Prescription: How do you feel about this haiku?
Time equals change, but do you see it as a loss, the rock is gone, or as something new and beautiful, The Grand Canyon!! Life, as with art, is all a matter of perspective.
Pure lavender buds
Essential oil, good for stress
Breath in, ah, breath out.
Art Prescription: Blooming now! beautiful tall stalks of lavender. Take a bunch and rub it in your hands to release the fragrance. Cut several stems and tie them up in cheesecloth, run hot water over it, for a delightful bath. I’m percolating a few new ideas…really like the idea of combining pen and ink with watercolor!!
Metamorphosis
Can we measure hope, dreams, wants?
Really steal a kiss?
Art Prescription: Some of the most poignant parts of life are immeasurable. Things we cannot fill a bucket with and say, okay I’m done. Like the breeze drifting through an open window, life can be difficult to constrain, put it all in nice order. The breeze has no motive. There is no way to measure the luxurious feeling of a cool evening breeze across your face…it just is. We live in a world full of comparisons and judgement…what if the most important things of all are the things we cannot measure or see. What if we could be fluid and flexible, like water, change effortlessly?
Crystal clear wine glass
Ah, what gets poured, happiness
Fill up on your choice.
Art Prescription: Today, my birthday, I meditate on choice. I believe how you choose to live, how you choose to think, what you fill your life with… a glass half-empty or half full…is very well what you end up with. You can spend your days waiting for the “perfect” thing to come along and “make” you happy, or you can choose to fill your life with contentment and gratitude. For me, working towards my goal to touch people’s lives with art feeds my spirit everyday. I can claim to be swept along by any old current in life, or choose!! Choose the direction I want to swim to save my very own life!! This one very precious life….go ahead now, jump in!!
Red spiky bee balm
Sweet nectar for hummingbirds
Buzz in, hover, drink.
Art Prescription: I have two patches of bee balm in my garden, and the one nearest the house blooms first. I can look out my kitchen window and see dazzling hummers coming to and fro, their iridescent color reflecting in the sunlight. As in life, you can attract what you need and what makes you hum in various ways. My point of view is that of having something real, something that goes beyond the external (the glossy pages of a magazine), life in the here and now…inner peace comes from the inside out.
Sumptuous green grass
I dance with my mower, weave
A freshly cut path.
Art Prescription: Mowing the grass is Zen…enough said.
Rain pitter patters
Tree frogs lull, solitude reins
Peace, quiet, steady.
Art Prescription: A good steady rain on my studio roof makes for the perfect solitude. While I wait for my paint to dry, I stretch out on the floor and just listen. I’m most peaceful when I have time and space to create…to let my muse wander. It’s important to know oneself – to know what makes you tick – to know what you crave, what you must have to live fully. Know thyself – do you?
Splash of chlorine wafts
Smell of coconut lotion
Hot, it’s poolside time.
Art Prescription: My neighborhood pool is open for business. People are out of their winter hide-away and into swim-suits by the pool. Kids splash about with floats while mothers and fathers tend to their youngest swimmer. Happy memories for these kids, summer at the pool. As a kid, summer lasted a lifetime, and the pool was the center of our universe…swim for fun, swim practice, swim meet, swim all day long. Course their were Popsicles involved, especially during the break each hour for “rest” time. Each season brings about a new set of memories old and new…it’s summer time!
Calm quiet stillness
Run like crazy up to then
Now move forward, choose.
Art Prescription: Months of planning for Surtex…and now time for follow-up. The calm and quiet of my garden calls.
The horn is culture
Gray and brick and neon flash
Land in sea of green.
Art Prescription: Home from New York City; YEA! Surtex was a blast and I’ve got lots and lots of following up to do; YEA!
I’m thrilled with the contacts I made and I need to vent…be patient…I’ll get back to the positive.
Top Ten Reasons I Don’t Like To Travel
1. sitting, which to me means wasting time
2. taxis, buses, trains, airplanes
3. lugging too much stuff and going through security
4. packing
5. miss my cats
6. eating out
7. waiting in lines
8. noise overload
9. not my routine a.k.a. OCD
10. definitely don’t have my stuff – a.k.a. really like home!!
Okay – now let’s be positive!!
Top Ten Reasons Surtex Was Worth It!!
1. lots of clean white towels
2. room-service and/or take-out and eating in bed
3. meeting other artists
4. walking the National Stationery Show
5. walking Surtex
6. meeting art directors and creative directors
7. talking with people about my art and the story of my art
8. Spending time with my one and only husband, best-friend, and business partner Sam Dyer
9.Feeling proud that 6 months of planning all came together
10. The total excitement about the future and new product!!!
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