Do You Know What You’re Doing?
I’ve started several new personal projects in the last year, from writing blog posts and (gasp) sharing them to painting on my own rather than in a class with a teacher. From the outside this looks …
Celebrating the Summer Solstice
The summer solstice is happening tomorrow. I’ve been wanting create my own sense of reverence and gratitude for these larger seasonal movements, so I made some notes about what this one means and ways …
Improve Your Intuition In the Woods
The five senses are easy. We’ve been using them since we were born and everybody agrees that we have them. The sixth sense – the intuition – takes some effort to develop, so it’s helpful to have a …
Poppy
I’m of the opinion that an image isn’t finished until I’m decently happy with the printed version. This poppy started out yellow and ended up black and white because the colors simply wouldn’t print …
Irises
I de-petaled these irises before I photographed them. I like to think of this as floral sculpting, but I wonder if the flowers agree. They’re already cut, so probably. It seems possible though that …
Celebrating the Equinox
It’s spring, and I made a photo to mark the occasion. The spring equinox happened this week. As I understand it, that means that for one day the Earth rotated into a mostly parallel alignment with the …
What Nature Says
They will tell you, Look to nature and feel that you are small. But Nature will tell you, Look to the sky and know that You are vast. Look to the ocean and know that You are deep. Look to the …
Invoking Gratitude the Haudenosaunee Way
I’ve been deep into reading books by Native American authors and recently discovered the Thanksgiving Address, also translated as Greetings and Thanks to the Natural World. It brought tears to my eyes …
Gratitude and Oranges
Years ago I tried keeping a gratitude journal. Oprah told me to, and I hoped it would help me through a particularly rough year. I’m a good list maker so I started writing out these long lists of …
Left Brain v. Right Brain
If you have spent any time meditating, you have surely noted that your brain is talking to you all of the time. What you may not have realized is that this verbal activity comes from only one side of …