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Is it possible to have two homes or three?


I once wrote across a painting of flowing water: The river was part of my being-my tears joined with the flow and gradually, silently merged with my other heart.


I suppose I must continue going to Colorado until it becomes my "other heart."


Namaste-

INTUITION

Intuition-insight


Or is it=in sight.  As in within my vision.  Or is it sight inside=looking inward.  Ah, that feels better.


Perhaps it has to do with seeing. 


Perhaps it is what we were born with but quickly forget.


I shall continue my investigation of intuition.


I have missed you.
Namaste

BIG EASEL

The Big Easel Art Show has been rescheduled to June 10th 2014.


I have tried to redirect my energy aimed at that day when we got rained out, but it is very difficult.  For me to put myself "out there" so soon after my Vault show took some prepping, preparing.  Now that I have had a couple of weeks of solitude I believe I can psych myself up again!


Namaste-

Biig Easel

I am working on set-up for an upcoming art show in River Ranch=May 10th
If pictures do not show up you can catch up on my facebook page.


BIG love
Mom/Gram/Ros/Lyn

HIGHER SELF

"Express yourself through creative activities."
GODDESS GUIDANCE ORACLE CARDS
Doreen Virtue, Ph.D


I will be in the Schoeffler's garden Saturday for the Southern Garden Festival.  I will have art for sale along with many other artists.  There is also music, high tea, bayou rides and lots of fun.


I was asked to decorate a pair of white overalls for a fashion show and I had a grand time playing with my art attached to fabric.


(If my pics of it don't show up here I will try to add them to my facebook page.)


I hope you go play outside today as well.


Namaste-

GRADITUDES

The well of love refills itself.  The more one gives of love, the more one has to give."
HOPE FOR TODAY-Al-Anon


Namaste-

GRATITUDES

"This is why we need more women officers.  For us it's enough to win.  For you, the other gut needs to know he's lost."
Major Susan Turner, Lee Childs character in NEVER GO BACK-


I  have found and read 3 "new" Jack Reacher novels and it's been the perfect mesmerizer for me with lots of art appearances, for this confirmed homebody!


Yesterdays Southern Garden Festival was soft and gentle.  The crowds we sparse and the sales were small but the visiting with patrons and artists alike were very rewarding.



Now it's back in my studio for me with a clean table and new ideas.


Search out what's new for you today.  Soon?


Namaste-

HIGHER SELVES

"Whose body, mind and soul am I nourishing today?"
HOPE FOR TODAY/Al-anon daily reader


MINE!


HOW ABOUT YOU?


Namaste-

HIGHER SELVES

Recently I have been having nosebleeds.  I have researched it and I believe it might come down to, for me, anxiety.  Now what could I be anxious about, here in the middle of three wonderful art shows, a time I have been waiting for all my life? DUH.


Each Monday I reserve one-half hour to commune, pray and do reiki along with my master teacher, LeeAnn Wehr and many of our fellow light workers. I light candles and think and open myself up to celestial answers.  Today I was guided to my Caroline Myss' Healing Cards.


Choosing a card, I read, "To heal the body, first heal the mind."


Oh is that how it goes.


As per the cards instructions I wrote this question, "Where does my mind go to heal itself?" I  waited for my unconscious, my higher self, to answer, and wrote,  "I let go of any angst I am feeling, and fill myself with the healing light of my angels and guides.   I ask you to visit me often and straighten my crooked thinking.


Perhaps you might wish to try this too
Namaste-

BIG GRATITUDES

"Art is a journey to the center of one's being."
ANGEL WISDOM
Terry Lynn Taylor & Mary Beth Crain


I have asked for and received some of my greatest wishes in life.  Creating art and also selling it!!
I have a sign above my work table with some of my favorite words, by Julia Cameron="Great Creator, I'll take care of the quantity, if You'll take care of the quality."


Until recently I have worked alone in my studio creating many, many works of art.  I am driven by thoughts in my head of images and words I wish to share.  Three years ago I quit working at my National Park Service job in order to create on a full time basis, (before it is "too late")!  That year I came home from Colorado and cleaned the slate.  I gathered and gave away many pieces of art. I felt their time had come to leave me.  I called and emailed my kiddoes and said if you want presents for your friends for giving as Christmas gifts, come and get them!  It was a wonderful sight to see my art pieces to go to loving homes.


I learned many years ago from my first spiritual mentors, Pat and Sid Fuselier, that for abundance to come to me, I had to make room for it.  I still have trouble believing how fast that emptiness was filled.  I have been creating new and different art ever since.  Art coming from a place of mystery and wonder!


I now have a solo show at The Acadiana Center for the Arts.  It is in the vault of what was originally a bank building, and from which the art center was repurposed.  The opening was a couple of weeks ago and I had a huge crowd, many of which really looked at my work and talked about it to me.  What a concept.  I love that.  The exhibit of 28 pieces will hang for two months and I will have another open house at Lafayette's next monthly Artwalk on March 12th.


I also have been accepted in the BIG EASEL, a yearly show in the town square at River Ranch.  Last night was a preview night at the Lounge gallery which is connected to the restaurant Tsunami, also in downtown Lafayette.  My work was accepted well there as well. 


I feel so filled with love and gratitude for all of my family and friends who have supported me in this "believable" adventure.


I hope you, too, clean your slate and fill it with your own most wished for adventure!
Since this blog is not allowing me to upload photos at this time, you can see my favorite work on the ACA website, under exhibits.)


Namaste-

GRATITUDES AND PLATITUDES (could't resist)

Not much makes me happier than coming home from the library with a new James Lee Burke novel.  A lot of people tell me he is too dark for them and I must admit when I first began reading them I felt the same way.  Then a few years back, my husband and I began a marathon reading from his first to his most recent.  I was caught up in his beautiful words that so describe South Louisiana, my adopted homeland.


The last book I read was by John Grisham and as I read I recalled just how jam packed with words his novels are. While reading him I am exhausted trying to keep up. The totally opposite of Ernest Hemingway's economy of words, which totally wrap around my heart and enrich me.


Now with Dave Robicheau in hand, I see that Burke's writing is a perfect fusion of the two.  For me.  I keep a dictionary at hand to look up words I have never before heard, yet when I read the definition,  I find they perfectly describe what he is depicting for me.


The first word that comes to mind is recidivist: a person who has "fallen back into prior criminal habits." Webster's Mew Collegiate Dictionary"/1959


Lots  of those in Dave's books.  But also much deep description of characters that I can recognize and identify with.


On a March Saturday that can become a lazy day if I choose to let it,  I am grateful for such luscious reading material.


Namaste-

GRACE & GRATITUDE

"As we cling to our conscious optimism, finding footholds of faith despite opposition, our lives become rooted in the soil of grace."
BLESSINGS -Julia Cameron


For our frostiest winter in my memory, I am happy just looking outside at crystalline branches.  Fortunately I have a stock of good books nearby.


I am presently reading DUST one of Patricia Cornwell's latest.  Kay Scarpetta brings back to me the artful words of James Lee Burke that kept me entranced from the first book to his latest.


Cornwell wraps her poetic words around my body and comforts me like none in the "real" world can manage.  Thank God.  That kind of intense life would be exhausting. 


Yet here in the warm confines of my bedclothes, with frost edging the windows as if it were Christmas morning, I can relax into the writing of yet another genius who shares herself with the world.


I am grateful.
I am butterfly woman.


"If I let you, you'll knock the color off my wings.  I'll be a trophy you no longer want.  Be my friend.  Why isn't that enough?" Kay Scarpetta--


Namaste-

FEBRUARY DREAMING

"An angel reminder: Dreams have little to do with logic and everything to do with inner happiness."




"Ask the angels to continually send you ideas to help expand and renew your dream.  If you have a dream you have not yet realized, be open to angelic suggestion and inspiration and know that if your desire is strong enough, you will attain your dream."
ANGEL WISDOM-Terry Lynn Taylor and Mary Beth Crain




My dreams are getting stronger. How about yours?


Namaste-

FEBRUARY DREAMING

"Spirit's first love offering to each of us was the breath of life."
Sarah Ban Breathnach-Romancing the Ordinary


To me dreaming and breathing are very similar.  I do it and often I don't notice that I am doing it.


I have to ask my inner self to help me to remember my dreams.  I have to record them upon rising or usually I forget them.  Sometimes I write down fragments of dreams in the  middle of the night and wake up surprised to see my scribble in the morning.  Often I use dream dictionaries to help me to interpret certain words.  Sometimes I just focus on what the words really mean to me and I get surprising awakenings.  I find that journaling about dreams helps me to navigate things that are going on in my life.


Breathing for me is similar.  I have to consciously ask myself to breathe  deeply.  this means stop and think about my breath.  Notice.  Pay attention.  Breathe.  When I look back on most of my life, it seems I was constantly holding my breath, waiting for the next shoe to fall.


The place I choose to be in today is to move slowly through life asking for what I need and accepting myself as doing and being what I am "supposed" to do and be.  By my own standards.  On my own terms.  And I am grateful.


Namaste-

FEBRUARY DREAMING

"I kept forgetting my dream of living as a writer, creative person, and continued doing things that were not nourishing at all! I believe we need to remember our dreams, and keep them very close to our hearts."

• SARK-Living Juicy

Golly gosh oh gee, I thought I had written those words!
Namaste-

FEBRUARY DREAMING

" Ask  a question before you sleep and let your dreams answer."
"It's an entry into a word of symbols and meanings that is not immediately about the physical world."


SARK- Living Juicy


Namaste-

FEBRUARY DREAMING

"Love and joy within each seam brings me only happy dreams; Shell Woman, shine through the night; keep me safe till dawn's first  light."
  -from 365 Goddesses by Patricia Telesco.


Namaste-

FEBRUARY DREAMING

"When we have engaged the creator within to heal us, many changes and shifts in our attitudes begin to occur. "
"Your dreams will become stronger and clearer, both by night and by day."
Julia Cameron


Reading Julia's books make me be better, do better and create better.  I wish the same for you, my sisters and brothers of the heart.


Namaste-

FEBRUARY DREAMING

"The dream state is a state of complete openness to information that cannot be processed through the intellect.  It is a magical, mystical, miraculous state in which thoughts may become ideas and ideas solutions."
ANGEL WISDOM-Terry Lynn Taylor and Mary Beth Crain




I first started dream analysis in the early eighties as a newly single mother of four. It was a time when I was feeling particularly lost, alone and helpless.  One of the first things that helped me was asking higher myself, my unconscious, a question before going to sleep at night.  Often some strange and wonderful insights occurred by morning.


Lately I have been asking those same questions again.  I suppose desperately seeking answers is a motivating force.  My biggest dilemma is why my art is not selling.  And why, as happened before Christmas, I sell a ''good" piece only to have it returned in January.


In examining this occurrence and asking for nocturnal help, my answers came as the following:
      1- I really loved the piece and hated to see it go (###!!!?)
      2- It was part of a "set" that should really hang together in my upcoming art show at the CAC our large art center in downtown Lafayette.  Surely some New York art collector will see my large body of work and ask me to show in the city of my latest enamor-ment. (!!?###) Never mind that my work will hang in the small dark room, formerly a bank vault in it's original incarnation, It is still an honor of which I am desperately proud!


Now back to you and me and finding the answers to our most probing questions.  Nighty-night!
Namaste-

FEBRUARY DREAMING

Dreams are like the best viewing available!  Last night I dreamed I was helping a client select a new home which we were going to decorate together.  Never mind that I had done that in my previous life, I was loving it right now!


The house was a curvy blend of rock organically leading us from room to room, from theme to theme.  No hard edges.  No corners.  We entered into a large and welcoming light filled area for entertaining.  The colors were earthy and soft just waiting for the pop we could give them with dynamic art and fabric.  There were lighted candles that invited us from space to space. 


A large bedroom had a wading pool for a bathtub and skylights of stars. A landscape for nocturnal dreams.


After I awoke, try as I might, I could not put an image to the rest of the wonder.  But it left  me with hope and possibility.  And healing light.  Merci.


I wish you your own magic dreams.
Namaste-

JANUARY AWAKENINGS

"Serious work demands serious play. "INSPIRATIONS-Meditations from the Artist's Way-Julia
Cameron.


When I first started The Artist's Way, in the early 90's,I was astounded by the authors request of me to take an artist's date every week, but soon, I must say, I really got into it.  It has been some time since I even heard these words much less gone on such an adventure.


I intend to do this for myself and my creativity again very soon!  I will walk alone in the rain or peruse a new art gallery or maybe even investigate a bead shop. (Dangerous territory there!) I will again take a solitary wandering to receive inspiration from who knows where.  Maybe today!


(By the way my photo-download has disappeared again.  I do so like to add photos to my writing.)


Namaste-

JANUARY AWAKENINGS

Last year we were gifted a most remarkable book.  I have tried to refrain from using quotes from it but this is too beautiful not to share.


"....that slowness remembers and hurry forgets;  that softness remembers and hardness forgets;  that surrender remembers and fear forgets."
Mark Nepo from The Book of Awakening


This past year I discovered that both my husband and my pets are helping me to slow down.  He decidedly walks slowly and thoughtfully.  When I am behind him trying to get somewhere in a hurry, I do go  more slowly. And both our cat and our dog always seem to be in the path I have chosen to walk.


I now recall that my resolution for 2013 was to learn to slow down.  And I did pretty well.  Consequently, I have not sprained an ankle or bumped a shinbone.  I have also given up my beloved 25 year old Birkenstocks with the shiny, slippery soles!


I am now trying to make a new resolution and it's a bit scary, because I am pretty sure I will get what I ask for!


Namaste-

JANUARY AWAKENINGS

"And now let us welcome the New Year
Full of things that have never been.
-Rainer Maris Rilke

JANUARY JOY

"I am present, here and now, and put aside past pain and fear.  I let in the beauty that surrounds me, from moment to moment." DAILY AFFIRMATIONA-For Adult Children of Alcoholics.

JANUARY AWAKENINGS

"Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to all alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs." Step 12 form the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous-


I began my 12 step journey in 1991 in Estes Park Colorado. A woman I worked with at a downtown pottery shop ask me if I would like to go with her to a meeting of compulsive over eaters.  I went and I was amazed.  The people in the meeting shared about experiences with food, and until then I thought I was the only one who had such thought and feelings.


Since that time I have begun to study the twelve steps in a variety of meetings:
-I began to realize that I ate to comfort myself when nothing else could numb that hurt.
-I behaved controlling and was an over achiever because in my childhood alcoholic  home there was no organization, no cleanliness, no perfection!!
-I realized  I was trying to fix everyone around me, but not myself!


It was not until yesterday's meeting, a meeting of all addictions for women only, that I finally "received" the twelfth step.  It's like I had read and studied all the other steps but never really got to the last one.  Duh!


I read that I should not waste time trying to persuade an alcoholic, over-eater, or whatever to stop.  I heard that if he wants to quit for good he will go to any extreme to do so.  I read that the family should not hysterically plead with him to do so. Double duh!


The best words I heard, yesterday, were from another member with whom I have much in common.  She said,"Let God be in charge and I will show up differently!" Amen and namaste'.

JOY

Back atcha Lukas!
Gram sure loves you!
Namaste'-

JANUARY JOY

"Affirmations are a way to wake us up-to make us fully conscious and aware of the daily choices we make." Rokelle Lerner/DAILY AFFIRMATIONS-For Adult Children of Alcoholics.

For me, one of the best things about January is beginning my little daily books, again, starting from day one.  It's not so much a New Year's resolution as much as it is a New Year's gift.

We began the new year cleaning deer skins and attaching them to old chairs that needed a seat.  The large one belonged to Ern's great-grandfather.  It was his fiddling chair.  Now isn't that appropriate.

We also worked on a small one for the little ones of the family.

 

While Mo worked a puzzle.

 

 

Bon jour & LOVE

Namaste'-

JANUARY JOY-back to solitude

"The minutes ticked past.  As they did, the work drew her into it's comforting womb.  The place where the world beyond her and her art ceased to exist."
Jane Westbrook/SEE JANE DIE/Erica Spindler-

I am happy to say, I gave myself to Christmas joy and played and played.  And played.  And since Christmas I have painted each day.

 

I am reworking a piece I had done years ago and had left most of the wood showing, thinking I was desecrating its precious surface.  No more!  It looks like a birdhouse from this view but do not be fooled.  It is not.

 

 

I am trying to decide if the colors work.  I think I  will add more white and less green and we'll see.

It is fun giving you a peek of my work in progress.  I'd appreciate your opinion.

Namaste'-

JOY-We are one.

I am so grateful for the people in my life.  We are so different and yet we are really all the same.
Bonne Annee and bonne sante'-