Dragonfly Visit
As I step away from busy days in the studio, I often go outside to recharge in the garden or by the creek. Today I stayed close to the house to monitor a sprinkler and practice my daily qigong by the...
View ArticleThe New Year’s New Moon
A new moon on new year’s day! I can’t remember such synchronicity but then, I haven’t always followed the moon as closely as I do now. The merging of these two calendars, the lunar and the solar, seems...
View ArticleFull Moon Auguring
January’s full moon was just setting in the predawn light this morning. Even before morning tea, for this happens quickly, I nabbed my camera and was outside to capture this brilliance still hanging in...
View ArticleSwelling Summer Moon
The long indigo evenings of summer bring lingering moon views. This gibbous August moon reveals her details while the sky is still light enough for the camera to capture light and shadow invisible to...
View ArticleAnd Glory Shone Around
Who doesn’t love a beautiful sunset? I am one who becomes rather ecstatic when I behold one, and I often attempt to capture the glory in my camera. How the light changes as you watch, the threshold...
View ArticleTo the Waters and the Wild
I have been away. Turning inward after the holiday rush, slowing the pace, seeking silence to hear myself think. During a cold spell in early January, a flash of inspiration led me to look up northern...
View ArticleFull Moon at Summer’s End
Praise to the moon, bright queen of the skies, Jewel of the black night, the light of our eyes, Brighter than starlight, whiter than snow, Look down on us in the darkness below. If well you should find...
View ArticleRiver Dance – The Coyote Creek Flood
It is raining in California. And some of us are nervous about it. Only occasionally do we experience the river dance; this year the Coyote was a trickster. The waters have receded from the great flood...
View ArticleLoving the Body Temple – A New Book
I am absurdly pleased to have been asked by my friend Byron Ballard to write a blurb for her new book, Embracing Willendorf. It has arrived in my mailbox and said blurb is indeed included. I truly...
View ArticleWhat falls away is always. And is near.
In this season of high summer the year is quietly turning toward the dark , and loss is heavy on my heart. In mid-July, my companion Soot left us. He was twelve years old. Lap cat, fur slippers,...
View ArticleWater Mountain
A few days after May Day, I bundled my bumped self into my car to drive north to Mount Shasta. I went to McCloud to teach a short class in drawing Celtic knotwork, as part of their first annual Celtic...
View ArticleA Desert Journey
Today is the summer solstice, and I am glad of the peaking energy of the bright sun here in the northern hemisphere, while still feeling the shadow of what we begin turning to at the moment of greatest...
View ArticleSwelling Summer Moon
The long indigo evenings of summer bring lingering moon views. This gibbous August moon reveals her details while the sky is still light enough for the camera to capture light and shadow invisible to...
View ArticleAnd Glory Shone Around
Who doesn’t love a beautiful sunset? I am one who becomes rather ecstatic when I behold one, and I often attempt to capture the glory in my camera. How the light changes as you watch, the threshold...
View ArticleTo the Waters and the Wild
I have been away. Turning inward after the holiday rush, slowing the pace, seeking silence to hear myself think. During a cold spell in early January, a flash of inspiration led me to look up northern...
View ArticleFull Moon at Summer’s End
Praise to the moon, bright queen of the skies, Jewel of the black night, the light of our eyes, Brighter than starlight, whiter than snow, Look down on us in the darkness below. If well you should find...
View ArticleRiver Dance – The Coyote Creek Flood
It is raining in California. And some of us are nervous about it. Only occasionally do we experience the river dance; this year the Coyote was a trickster. The waters have receded from the great flood...
View ArticleLoving the Body Temple – A New Book
I am absurdly pleased to have been asked by my friend Byron Ballard to write a blurb for her new book, Embracing Willendorf. It has arrived in my mailbox and said blurb is indeed included. I truly...
View ArticleWhat falls away is always. And is near.
In this season of high summer the year is quietly turning toward the dark , and loss is heavy on my heart. In mid-July, my companion Soot left us. He was twelve years old. Lap cat, fur slippers,...
View ArticleWater Mountain
A few days after May Day, I bundled my bumped self into my car to drive north to Mount Shasta. I went to McCloud to teach a short class in drawing Celtic knotwork, as part of their first annual Celtic...
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