First Impressions

footsteps on squeaky floorboards
magpies chatting beside coyote fences
church bells singing through aspens
hollyhocks dancing on a painted breeze
and skies that suggest divine secrets
sensing a tribal connection
with soft, scattered voices,
with pencils scratching paper,
with fingers lightly tapping out the treasures
of writers exploring their souls
gently exploring words as they coalesce from chaos
beginning to make out the faint whispers of [...]

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Here There Be Angels

I’m here – drove into Taos around noon today and was very surprised to find myself in the middle of a traffic jam! It’s a little bitty town, but it is just packed to the gills with tourists and art-seekers. I drove straight to the lodge and parked – figuring explorations on foot would be [...]

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Clear to Tucumcari!

When I was little, my grandpa would describe any long distance drive as being “clear to Tucumcari” – as in “he lives clear to Tucumcari!”  Until tonight, I thought it was a made-up word – not so!!  I am sitting in a Hampton Inn in Tucumcari, New Mexico.
It’s a very small Route 66 town – [...]

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Intentional Tuesday: Soul Coaching

I picked up a new book by Denise Linn called Soul Coaching.  This is another one of those books that seemed to jump off the shelf and into my arms (course, they all do that to one extreme or another – pesky books).  When I got it home, I realized I already have the Oracle [...]

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Sacred Sunshine

“A certain day became a presence to me;
there it was, confronting me – a sky, air, light:
a being. And before it started to descend
from the height of noon, it leaned over
and struck my shoulder as if with
the flat of a sword, granting me
honor and a task. The day’s blow
rang out, metallic – or it was [...]

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Trusting the Moon

“We are unafraid to the same degree that we experience the presence of the universe in our body. Every time we open ourselves up to more power, more of the old fear gets flushed to the surface and released… The more light we allow within us, the brighter the world we live in [...]

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New YouTube Artist

I found another fun and talented YouTube artist with a message (he’s all about the journey)…

I love that he’s a little quirky and I especially love all the layers he creates and his use of stencils (his own stencils) and his philosophy of “it’s done when it feels done.”  Plus how [...]

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Sisterhood

Hubby and I went to see Journey to the Center of the Earth (with Brenden Fraser) tonight.  Frankly, I wouldn’t suggest wasting money on it.  It was entertaining in an action-packed, slapsticky humor, been-there-done-that sort of way, but wait for it to come out on cable.
All was not lost, however, becuase this preview set my heart [...]

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Intentional Tuesday: Acceptance

One of the things I struggle most with is acceptance – primarily of myself and my many perceived flaws.  The truth that the Universe and my teachers keep putting in front of me is that I am divine, but there’s a little voice inside of me that is always ready to step up and say, “yeah, [...]

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Sacred Inches

In this month’s issue of Somerset Studio, there was a little layout on inchies – 1 inch by 1 inch art cards that people trade or combine to make larger art projects (like this one by Suze Perrott of Pink Crayon Studio).  They’ve sort of been floating at the back of my mind since I read [...]

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