You can’t control it all Honor it all Or feel it all Allow it to be It is a messy goodness Sometimes sharp and weakening And still you must rise Into your work and your soul. Find the sounds that bring you back. Call yourself daily like a long distance lover Until you are close And the ancestors dance in […]

I have seared the Napa cabbage and mushrooms. Brewed the green and nettle tea and laid the table for a feast. For the first time in a long time I hear you (or is it me) say- you have come back to me. To love. Because you know the truth that- Real love brings us deeper into life. Close to […]

This a little journal my hubby and oldest little got for me ….I was not sure how I was going to use it. Not using one side of the paper feels almost nutty but it helps with the whole messy transfer thing…which could be nixed with fixative but whose got time for that… I will confess that I feared that […]

The only way I know to deal with the sadness, the grief…the uncertainty is to keep moving. It sounds trite and maybe it’s not the textbook answer but it helps me keep one foot in front of the other and my heart softer. These days have been so thick and twisty but I try to solve the world…even my own […]

somehow it’s april. I did a little experiment in February of daily painting. As I rolled through February, I was pretty sure it was a done deal and I would be able to get around to painting every day…every spare moment and then I wasn’t. I think on some level. I was just tired on so many levels. I wanted […]

Trying to figure out how to simplify and even allow myself to make things I don’t love and not paint over them. Lol. This weekend , we got a art table for our front room. Don’t be jealous. It’s nothing fancy. Just a long folding table…that you can get anywhere but it proved to be magical around here. you see […]