Bird’s Wing, Bird’s Song of Spring
Posted on 9 March 2010 | 4 responses
Birdsong is a world somewhere between
Sunlight and shadow whisper
memories of spring
swaying silently in air
New flight leaves sorrow in despair
as sun alights the small bird’s wing
kisses everywhere
and everything
A Child’s Light (Spirit Painting in the making)
Posted on 7 March 2010 | 3 responses
I am painting a Spirit Painting for a child who I have not met. At this stage in the painting, I felt so compelled to do “ancient light”, the light of the world as it has given sunshine to the planet long before our understanding of time. This child has knowing as golden as the sun and as ancient as wisdom itself. I can’t keep painting, have to stop and just “be” with the love in this child which found it’s way into the art at an early stage. I might have to start another for her, and see where it takes us. I started to communicate with Derrick Hayes on FB, and he had no idea that I was basking in the thought of light, of golden rays from a prayer/meditation about a child, and he did this little poem with my name, “Elaine”, which I took as a sign (kiss from God):
“Every Light Assures Individuals New Excellence”
Derrick was tapping in to exactly what I was feeling. How a child’s light, inner glow, brings out the best in us if we are seeking enlightenment, there it is. To read more about Derricks life of poetic wisdom, go to: http://www.derrickhayes.com
Meet the Greens (brush stroke people)
Posted on 4 March 2010 | 5 responses
I like to make a single brush stroke and then see what comes to mind. These three are people created out of just playing around with some extra paint and having fun making quick strokes and dabs. Being creative is to play, feeling joy is to feel playful! I get into a real great place when I’m playful and doing something I love, without inhibition or self criticism. Playing like this makes the art come to life, like real people, real friends.
These are my three friends, The Greens. One is elegant, one is shivering, one is stepping out.
Spirit Painting
Posted on 2 March 2010 | 5 responses
This is a Spirit Painting I was commissioned to do recently. Sabina Walton asked me to meditate on her and create a painting while entering this prayer state. I was honored and am blessed to have been asked to do this. I was, as always when regarding another in this spiritual way, very moved by the beauty and importance of this individual who was born to be on the earth to live, love and learn as we all are. I was excited by what came! Many images of spiritual blessings came to mind in the form of nature and angels. I sensed new experiences abounding, and the kind of wondrous mystery of life which enhances and urges us, ever revealing itself to us through gentle synchronicity and surprising anecdotes. All of this was beneath a really exciting feeling of healing and newness, depth and future happiness. Life is good!
Ying-Yang Math
Posted on 1 March 2010 | 7 responses
I was in Boston bringing artwork to The Arsenal Center for the Arts for a group exhibition this month. I stayed with my friend who is a seriously wonderful, loving math educator/professional for the Boston Public Schools. I believe her official title is Elementary Mathematics Program Director. She is a superb artist as well, and I had this unique experience because of her. She puts the word LOVE into math. I was traumatized as a child in a violent episode during math class so, even though I enjoy working out basic algebra problems when I’m alone, when I’m with a teacher who may ask questions, that signals real danger. I instantly revert into a terrified 10 year old. So when my friend began to do some basic algebra with me (I asked!), this of course happened and I froze up. But then later in my sleep that night, I had fantastic math cartoon dreams. I was successfully working on the problems my friend gave me during this dream (I was lucid and aware of this), and I saw a most fascinating thing happen.
I was working with a number line, colorfully existing on a yellow background. As I began to work on a problem, half of the Ying Yang symbol appeared over the negative numbers on the number line. “Negative is Ying”, a voice said, and then Yang appeared over the positive number line. “And positive is Yang” the voice said. Then below, a happy number line appeared where zero became the complete Ying-Yang symbol. This all felt exhilarating! I was having so much fun with this math dream.
When I woke up, I reflected on what the dream meant, and I realized that if zero is Ying-Yang, and the definition of zero can be seen as the potential for having positive and negative in equal amounts at all times, then zero isn’t really just “nothing”. And if zero is “absolute value” and if the absolute value is Ying-Yang as in my dream, then zero really is the place or moment where anything is possible, negative or positive. Zero is potential for everything, not just nothing. I read on www.purplemath.com that if you “take the negative of an absolute value, you will get a negative number for your answer”. To me this means that if you think a negative thought, you will get a negative answer. If you think a positive thought, you will get a positive answer. It isn’t news, but it means a lot if you apply it to your daily life and attitude.
I suppose the best thought about this dream is that if we perceive ourselves as lacking, and having a big zero, or nothing, we are in a point of stasis. Yet, Ying-Yang cannot ever be in a point of stasis or “absolute stasis” because it is the energy of negative and positive in constant motion. Therefore, if we feel very empty, very without, and instead we change our thought to “I have the potential for everything” at that moment, my question is, will we end our feeling of stasis by arriving at a point of experiencing abundance sooner than we might if we continued to feel we were experiencing ZERO or nothingness? Is this dream mathematical proof for having and keeping positive thoughts in order to live abundantly and with happiness? If life gives you Ying, can you get yourself back to Yang by thinking positive thoughts? If you have nothing, are you really at your most spiritually powerful point of emergence into everything you ever dreamed of experiencing or having?
One last thing: I learned that the idea of zero is known as Wuji. It basically seems to translate as ultimate nothingness, “without polar opposites”, no Ying, no Yang. But the dream showed that the point of absolute value (zero) IS Ying-Yang, the potential for EVERYTHING.
Orbs and Angels (and babies!)
Posted on 26 February 2010 | 5 responses
The light that is moving energy, that is the wisdom of ancient knowing, that is love and is ever becoming more light. I began seeing orbs years ago, and asked my Cherokee mentor what were they? They feel as spiritually radiant as my idea of angels. She said, “Those are the babies.” I was surprised to hear this. I had no idea what she meant. She said the orbs I saw were very new life forms, and they traveled with me on my earth walk as well as in the astral realm, so they could begin to learn from us on earth, in our struggles and in our adventures. I do not know if all orbs are “babies” in spirit, and feel certain that there are legions and legions of angels in many forms, as was written. But I love the idea of innocent, gentle and loving souls newly born of the power of the Source of Life, appearing as orbs; light that is moving energy, that is of ancient knowing, that is love and is ever becoming more light.
The Heart (of shadows and light)
Posted on 24 February 2010 | 4 responses
We carry a fruitful bough with us, where our heart is. All day it is there with us. We work, we focus on things, we eat, we talk, but always there is the heart, filled with memory and feeling, opening and protecting all at once, a delicately blooming tree. We are under that tree, in both the sunlight and shadows of our emotions. We are the keeper of emotions. Our own. What we feel and have felt is there. What we long for and experience is there. Anything we desire is first conceived of as a thought, right there. It is never too late to heal wounds that may be there in the shadows, and never too late to reach up toward the light and begin anew. A new dream, a new desire, a new life entirely. Each moment the heart is providing emotional energy for anything we wish.
Westport Sketchbook: Sunny Sunday
Posted on 22 February 2010 | 4 responses
Light and shadows captivate me. The way buildings are illuminated by light, ever changing. Long, dramatic shadows reaching on a clear blue sky day had me besotted on Main Street yesterday.
People are more compelling, though. One woman casually strode around in black heels and a purple suit, no overcoat (it was finally warm enough). And she had her hair in a french braid, her hand in her suit pocket. I wondered, had she just come out of church, or was she on a break from working in one of the shops on Main?
And the babies! They were able to have some fresh air, too. One baby was being toted in a car-seat carrier by his dad. (Go to www.westportnow.com)
Flower People
Posted on 21 February 2010 | 6 responses
We had sunshine today, and I noticed a different language coming from nature. It was not the voice of winter, but a whispering little song of spring. Soon, it will fade and we’ll have more snow, sleet and rain. But it was interesting to adjust to a new attitude in response to nature today. I thought of how our own personal climates of emotion fluctuate, but an overall human conditioning prescribed by nature’s presentation gives us a framework and reference for our attitudes, and we are subject to it. My own personal springtime may not be the spring time outside, and my own inner winter may not be during the months of December through February. Still, no matter what, nature lays over us a condition to deal with, and we respond one way or another. Today I let the sun warm me up, and thought of how good it felt. Like a flower opening up.
Negative Vibes! Primitive Fears…
Posted on 19 February 2010 | 5 responses
Negative vibes. When you get a bad feeling. When, instead of feeling a sense of well-being, comfort and/or joy and elation with life, you get gripped up in the stomach, feel unsure, and are likely to stop breathing deeply. This can happen in a blink. What is happening to give you this awful, uncomfortable feeling? It is there to guide you back to your sense of well-being. Get away from what makes you feel negative and contemplate what is going on. Becoming conscious is the route to freedom. So much of what we experience in a day is undertones of feeling: unconscious responses to interactions and situations. Human fear causes us to be subject (when we are not conscious of it) to needing to feel superior over others. Mankind in his primitive impulses has done this as a rule over time: conquered others in the name of superiority. People and nations have destroyed others because this impulse to vanquish in order to feel worthy and victorious is so strong. In our small interactions, we do this as well if we do not become conscious of this feature of being human. With fear comes the notion that we must be a “winner” or a “loser” and we design each interaction each day to help us feel like a “winner”. What a hellish way to spend time! Life is so much better knowing there are no losers, we’re all “winners” together, living and learning with the will to choose. Be in your peace and in the bright knowledge that you are love and perfection. And get your good feeling vibes back!
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