Monthly Archives: August 2011

Autumn Splendor

As autumn approaches, I notice leaves. I pick them up, see who lives there.  Leaves are nature’s confetti, filling the sky with celebratory cheer for all we’ve learned in the last cycle and for all the good that awaits us … Continue reading

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Illuminara Intuitive Journal with Cards (and my dog)

Plantagenet picks an Illuminara Card I like to start the day by choosing a card, asking for guidance, I trust the right one will come to me.  Along with this I often close my eyes and pick something out of … Continue reading

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Being Playful Strengthens Intuitive Knowing

One of my illustrations for 42 MILES by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer/Clarion Books Being playful, creating for fun and switching off the internal voice which seeks to judge and criticize, we open to our childlike nature where creative energy and intuitive … Continue reading

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Hurricane Irene Dreams

This is a dream entry in my sketchbook from about a year ago (also posted on Illuminara). I had a few dreams of being at Compo Beach and water lapping up at the windows of the house I was in. … Continue reading

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When Bad Things Happen, Go Into Your Creative Self

Detail from an accordion book I made/1996 In this piece of art, I was reflecting on how life inevitably brings us difficulty, and we can’t avoid suffering.  It’s part of the human experience, but I always hope for the least … Continue reading

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Hurricane Irene Heads to Westport….

From Westport Sketchbook, my sketch of Winslow Park after the last serious wind storm in our area/2009 There is an ominous feel in the air. Hurricane Irene is on the way, and I just read Jacob Meisel’s excellent report in … Continue reading

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Barrel Racing Along

From my picture book A BLUE RIBBON FOR SUGAR Developing our dreams (mine still is to be a cowgirl again, as I was born and raised to be on our ponies in Texas until about the age of 10) through … Continue reading

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Carrying the Worries of the World

This is a drawing I did in the early 1990′s.  I was thinking of how easy it is to carry the worries of the world on our own shoulders, like a heavy robe.  If you have empathy and are a … Continue reading

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Chief Sitting Bull

One of my illustration’s for GIRL COMING IN FOR A LANDING, a novel told in poems by April Halprin Wayland “The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love. He put … Continue reading

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UFO Invasion (or visitation?) Dream

My sketchbook journal/dream journal entry for August 19, 2011 I’ve had lots of UFO dreams lately.  In this latest one, I was with some others under a blue-sky, marvelous day when out of nowhere came super-flying white air ships. They … Continue reading

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