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Words have power

et us hold each other in love and look for ways to simply just have fun.
We are, after all, just walking each other home.

Doubling Down

As often is the case in challenging times in our lives—we are growing roots and strength in the dark passages. We just can’t see it. The other night as I lay, trying to let my mind unwind from a loss in my life, I shifted gears to focus on something that made me happy, something…

Does 2020 feel like the longest year in recorded history??

I’m laughing at myself because I just looked at something I did way back in SEPTEMBER.
I scarcely remember doing it. 
(It feels like September was about 3 years ago—can I get an amen?!)

Do One Thing (that you really want to do!)

Make sure in all of your doing today, to do something delightful for you. It’s easy to forget that we have the power to do this. Busy with real life stuff we forget to do the simple things that help lift our spirits in all the right places.

I was a guest on the ‘Learn to Paint’ podcast and here’s what happened…

I did a Learn to Paint podcast that has some talking points I thought you might find helpful/inspiring/downright funny…

In the interview, I talk about: How I got into art, What I need from reference photos, Being conscious of what I want to paint, Biggest challenges I see students facing with color, Getting and avoiding mud, Palette strategy vs painting strategy and more!!

Fresh cool breezes from the Mediterranean…

Feel the cool blue breeze like a breath of fresh air coming in from the Mediterranean, all for you in this letter

A place where sea and sky and soul meet for refreshment.
 Bring your drink, a favorite book and maybe your journal. 
Let yourself breathe into this space.

Beauty in the Dance

There is beauty in your creating

Not in how it’s presented
Not in the place it’s shown
Not in the praise or lack thereof bestowed

But simply in the creating

Never Just Another Day

It is never ’just another day’. If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years how would men believe and adore and preserve for many generations the remembrance…

Just Add Lemons and Rain

A week of small things that resulted in peace and contentment
Lemons in my water and daybeds in my paintings

In gratitude for the creators

How lucky we are to see these moments. Big magic, indeed.

The ‘Super Pink Moon’ of April 2020 was the biggest one for the year. I caught it heading into dusk, so large I could do nothing but let it fill up my soul.