Creative **ART** Journal

These two items are very precious, and they have something in common. Vienna. The Venus of Willendorf is something I have admired for much o...

I have been listening to the very inspiring book, "We Need Your Art" by Amie McNee. It is a manifesto in how to get your creative ...

I first took a ceramics class at about age 9 at our Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Bethesda, Maryland. I was entranced with the eart...

First post of the year, and it's already one day past Mother's Day! Crazy politics in the land, and since my husband, one daughter, ...

 

What a year! I traveled to 5 states (Iowa, New Mexico, New Jersey, Oregon and New York) and 5 countries (France, Italy, Switzerland, San Mar...

Rumi said, "Feel yourself being quietly drawn by the deeper pull of what you truly love".

  Hi rare reader - although this blog is something like 15 years old, I know I rarely post and rarely (never?) seem to have readers. So if y...

"It would seem we have been admitted to the spheres of dreams and magic." -Goethe Another year. Another set of journal pages, blan...

Congrats. To me.  I wrote my first post here 15 years ago, October 2, 2007. I know this blog did not take off and light fires around the wor...

I just randomly grabbed a journal from my journal shelf (which has journals going back to 1984!) The year, 2009. This seems like yesterday, ...

 

Oh, to be rid of 2021. It started January 6 with crazies storming our capitol building trying to topple our democratic government. It ended ...

In these strange times, travel is hard to plan, difficult to execute, scary to embark upon. I always have used dreams of travel to alleviate...

 

 

My mom turns 92 tomorrow. I found this beautiful poem fragment  by our Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo about a friend's 70th birthday: So, my f...

 Let the beauty you love be what you do.   --Rumi

We did a thing. We went to hear Get the Led Out, and sat outside in Red Rocks Ampitheater with 6000 other people. Like most of us, it's ...