Art & Joy
Things I did Today …
Created some lovely new pieces of jewelry for the Holidays.
After playing around with some new designs for bangle bracelets. I found some kyanite beads in my bead drawer and became completely mesmerized by their beauty. I layed out some freshwater pearl strands, two toned Czech glass beads and copper wire and let creativity flow through me like a river.
When creating, I find I become more centered in the process and more attentive to my inner voice as my work merges and changes from one thing into another. I admit some days are better than others regardless of the outcome, I always feel more alive, more joyful, more aware and more complete.
thought for the day; “The Artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place. From the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spiders web….” ~ Pablo Picasso
“Everyday Goddessing is about sharing magical techniques and sacred wisdom with other beautiful Goddess women. I believe that within every woman there is a goddess, a wise woman, beautiful, creative, powerful, with a deep soul, and that everything we need and are looking for is already inside each of us.” – Rose Arizmendi
Friends & Gratitude
Yesterday, a friend invited me out to lunch at our favorite cafe. When I arrived, she was already there and had created sacred space for our little get together. There was a lovely candle surrounded by a small crystal, a heart shaped stone, yummy homemade brownies and her beautiful Angel cards.
What a beautiful … thoughtful thing to do.
I am filled with gratitude to have such friends~ sharing stories ~ laughter and joy
Peace Makers: The 13 Grandmothers Council ~ a Visionary Painting by Minouche, 2008
My dear friend also gifted me with a wonderful photo of the ~ 13 Indigenous Grandmothers
I can’t wait to hang it in our home. ~ Absolutely beautiful!
For The Next 7 Generations Trailer ~by Laughing Willow
We the people of the world need to heal our relationship with our mother earth as well as one another. And we must also carry this message of love with an opened heart to the four corners of the earth. Blessings, Rose
“Those of us who consider ourselves to be somehow involved in the birthing of a new age, should discover Gaia as well. The idea of Gaia may facilitate the task of converting destructive human activities to constructive and cooperative behavior. It is an idea which deeply startles us, and in the process, may help us as a species to make the necessary jump to planetary awareness.”
– James Lovelock
“Everyday Goddessing is about sharing magical techniques and sacred wisdom with other beautiful Goddess women. I believe that within every woman there is a goddess, a wise woman, beautiful, creative, powerful, with a deep soul, and that everything we need and are looking for is already inside each of us.” – Rose Arizmendi
Gaia ~ Planet Earth
Something beautiful and uplifting for a chilly, cloudy Friday.
The Secret ~ Planet Earth
As each day passes my art work area gets messier. So today, I decided to clean and rearrange everything and now all of my acrylic paint tubes and brushes are in their proper places and everything is ready to go.
I have two paintings I need to finish so they can be hung in a local shop and I know I should be working on them, but there are other things that need to be done.
Meanwhile, outside my window clouds are gathering and the promise of rain is in the air.
Before I go I will leave you with this poem by David Whyte;
Sweet Darkness
When your eyes are tired
the world is tired also.
When your vision has gone
no part of the world can find you.
Time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes
to recognize its own.
There you can be sure
you are not beyond love.
The dark will be your womb
tonight.
The night will give you a horizon
further than you can see.
You must learn one thing:
the world was made to be free in.
Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn
anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.
“Everyday Goddessing is about sharing magical techniques and sacred wisdom with other beautiful Goddess women. I believe that within every woman there is a goddess, a wise woman, beautiful, creative, powerful, with a deep soul, and that everything we need and are looking for is already inside each of us.” – Rose Arizmendi
My Walk In The Woods
I love everything there is about the woods near our home ~ the sky, the trees, the bubbling creek nearby and the light falling through the branches.
Such beauty ~ magical ~ suspended all around me.
“Our life is a faint tracing
on the surface of mystery” . . .
~ Annie Dillard
Here are some photos I would like to share with you from my morning walk in the woods. The landscape so quiet and tranquil, with tree leaves vibrant with color like stained glass windows filtering the autumn light.
Precious moments ~ serene ~ my church in the woods.
Looking up into the clouds overhead immersing myself in the wonders of the natural world. The warmth of the sun penetrates me as I reach to embrace the sky. The earth is my mother, my home, my teacher
quote for the day;
“I, the song
I walk here.”
~ Indian Poem
“Everyday Goddessing is about sharing magical techniques and sacred wisdom with other beautiful Goddess women. I believe that within every woman there is a goddess, a wise woman, beautiful, creative, powerful, with a deep soul, and that everything we need and are looking for is already inside each of us.” – Rose Arizmendi
Happy Halloween
Happy Halloween everyone!
Today, I spent some time reflecting and remembering friends and family who have passed on.
Memories ~ Sweet as well as bitter sweet ~ Sadness and Joy ~ Mostly love & gratitude.
Later, I went for a walk and let the land, sky and water cleanse me.
Weaving ~ Connecting ~ Observing ~ Opening
The Faery Ride
Forget the hearth,
Forget the roof,
Set the wheel aside:
Leave your weaving,
Warp and woof,
Steal out to us this Samhain – Tide.
Steal out to us, out tossing hair
Sets sun and moon and stars a flare.
The racing winds are hounds beside
The cloud-maned horses that we ride.
Come ride with us, have heart to dare
The plunging steed; the steeps of air;
The swirling, high, tumultuous flight,
The aery hooves ~ this Samhain Night!
~ Ella Young
“Everyday Goddessing is about sharing magical techniques and sacred wisdom with other beautiful Goddess women. I believe that within every woman there is a goddess, a wise woman, beautiful, creative, powerful, with a deep soul, and that everything we need and are looking for is already inside each of us.” – Rose Arizmendi