Creatively Thinking

  Featured image:   Gifts from God If we allow  ourselves to think  others are lacking … lacking        essential …… whatever’s….        …truths…        aren’t we boxing ourselves in?

  Featured image:   White Feather I am always waiting for what gives me that deep deep interval breaths.  Today this surprise happened when I saw a beautiful white feather fall.  Moving --- through pink sky and finally becoming part of Whiteness.

  Featured image:  Feel'n Fortunate   I listen I think       She is saying      what she personally thinks. How she  thinks….       Is not what I think       I feel she is saying       listening personally       thinking personally

  Featured image:  As the Wind Blows drifting       southerly eagles wings        slowly        tilt currents of air       moving       invisible

  Featured image:  Seasons the gift of tears        frozen on skin sadness NO powerful joy       tears…       burdens released she weeps

  Featured image:  Raven's Spirit I tell and create stories for all the works I create. They are personal stories about my life. I believe that stories are our wealth. No money, diamonds, gold, silver or what have you, but stories. Our history. The stories we create become our history. I love hearing stories from others about their lives, and the lives of others who are important to them. Recently I traveled to the southwest, Tubac, Phoenix, Santa Fe, Sedona and Taos. I gallery hopped in all those towns, asking about the stories the artists were telling in their work, both 3 dimensional and 2 dimensional. At first I tried to visually read the artists’ stories but then I found that I really needed to do some research. I started asking questions about the artists’ visual languages. I researched and bought books on the visual symbolism in their works. I am still researching – their pictographs, the symbols they put on their clothing, drums, shields, decorations. I was especially ...

  Featured image:   Ravens in the Backyard Imagine sitting near a snow drift that covers over your head. Blending with pearls falling from the sky. Two ravens at the end of the path.