The chaos that I use to endure in my head has stopped because I have just started taking one step at a time.  It’s easy to get all wound up with all the things needed to be done as an artist and human being.  Once I let go of the chatter and the “gotta do…

When I look back on my early years as a child,  I am grateful that I don’t have to carry bitterness or unforgiveness.  I’m free of all that.  Whew!!!! Why carry all that muck around for years and years?  Even though my parents weren’t Christian, I had a picture of Christ on my wall knocking…

A couple of weeks ago, I could have been touchy when some people came into my studio/gallery and made fun and mocked my abstract art. I became an abstract artist when physically  I couldn’t do work on an easel anymore.  Without perspective of upright canvas and landscape work I moved to painting flat on a…

I’m one of these people that has had a hard time trusting and then letting go. Because of my childhood and also contracting polio and losing the use of my left arm, I had put up a barrier and not even really trusting myself. Because of this journey and growth I’ve experienced I have been…

Here are my classes for Oct, Oct 15th Sat 9-11:30 “Finding Your Creative Self”. Utilizing circles to help you creatively meditate and to play like a child. Cost $50.00 Materials included. Minimum 3 Maximum 8 October 29th Sat 9-11:30 Using Color in All Areas of Life”. This class will help you integrate color for Art,…

Here I am going through my e-mails, new advisements on how to make my website or blog better and confusion gets in my head.  Instead I choose to be content and have peace of mind by walking away until I’m truly ready to deal with that information.  I can let all the jabber and chaos…

The  month of August was a time to concentrate on painting and my husband’s health.  Now I’m gearing up for fall.  What is it that after a long hot summer you’re ready to  start moving and as the saying goes, grooving.  I guess, it’s when we were kids we were ready for school in September,…

No matter what circumstances that you come up against, you’ve got to keep the faith. Just having the right attitude and faith can help give you peace.  I know.  I used to be a person that would get frustrated at even the littlest things.  That’s because I learned in my childhood that chaos was normal…

It seems that most of us are rushing around doing lots of mundane things and thinking we are accomplishing so much.  I’ve done busy work. Now I’m connecting with being still and have a quiet knowing.  Listening to my heart instead of to my head provides a wider view and then the confidence of doing…