Over the weekend I got to spend three hours doing something I love–facilitating a labyrinth workshop. Outdoors, on a cliff above the Puget Sound, in a labyrinth shaded by beautiful madrona trees. It was at Indralaya, a Theosophical retreat center on Orcas, one of the San Juan islands in the Puget sound. It’s a beautiful property… Continue Reading
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog Let’s go back to the lazy dog, afternoon sun lingering on his tail, the warmth of that disturbed by a fox shadow. Quick, the fox, and brown, a showoff too by all reports. What’s so great about a leap over–not moon, not line of fourteen… Continue Reading
Whole Life Creativity: The Art of Noticing
How do you feel when you face a blank page? Some days it’s not a big deal for me, some days it’s difficult. When it’s good, writing and creating is like something fresh and vivid pouring itself onto the paper. Then there’s the not-good times. The block shows up first in my body–as heat, as… Continue Reading
Whole Life Creativity: Rituals and Doors
I was reading a book on creativity the other day and one of the artists being interviewed for the book stated that, while she didn’t have any creative rituals, she did like to start each day’s work with a hot cup of tea. Nice ritual! Rituals are a huge part of my creative process, I… Continue Reading
Whole Life Creativity: Blue Thing
I used to live in the bush just outside of Sydney. Our house backed onto National Park and one day as I headed out for a bush walk I spotted a Bower Bird nest just a few metres away from our back fence.The male bower bird builds a bower and then goes off searching for… Continue Reading
New Art: Blue Jizo
Jizo Boddhisattva is a Buddhist saint and protector of children and travelers through physical and spiritual worlds. Jizo is often depicted sitting in the hell realms as he has taken a vow to not enter into full enlightenment until hell is empty, so he sits there saving all the trapped beings. One of the ways… Continue Reading