Forced Into Humility, Vulnerability & Innocence in 2018 Mine are not the usual New Years Resolutions. Leading up to the New Year I have been brought to my knees by the necessity of being more humble, vulnerable and innocent … just in time for winter solstice, the turn to increasing light which...
Dear Painting Friends Worldwide, Scary images of monsters and half forgotten predators visit our paintings unannounced, like unexpected nightmares when we sleep. The brain activates our senses; it feels so real we want to get away. We want to rip up the painting and begin again. For many of us the...
If you have not attended a PFTS workshop and are curious to know what it is about, listen to this Interview of me by Royda Crouse on her radio program in Columbia MO, 2004, "Woman’s Issues, Woman’s Voices”. Royda was a psychologist and professor at Univ. of Missouri in Columbia, MO and had just...
Dear Painting Friends, I am so blessed and grateful. Just returned from Painting From The Source with an inspiring group in Esalen Institute, Big Sur CA. Please see our picture/video on Facebook and "Like".Taking my own good medicine: When I watch and listen to my painting, it unfailingly prompts...
Aviva with mysterious boulders on Oracle dream property. Join and Like the Friend / Fund Campaign on Face book.
Dear Painting Friends, I practice a healing technique based on the teachings of Bruno Groning (who surfaced in Germany after World War II). In group meetings (Circle of Friends) every three weeks and twice a day at home, I sit and ask for healing of mind, body, and soul plus I ask for others in...
Dear Painting Friends Worldwide, Lately, I often find myself saying the phrase, “You just never know” as in “you just never know what will happen”. I have big hopes that seem improbable to my small mind, like gathering community to buy a seven hundred thousand dollar property in Oracle AZ for a...
There is no word for art or artist in Bali; creating there is a form of devotional prayer in which every person daily participates, be it a solitary sculptor, gatherings for traditional music, theater or dance groups, or the daily fashioning of leaf and flower offerings in shop entryways. The word...
The short answer to this question is, “You already know.” The Source goes by countless names and has many faces and all are true. Native Americans call it Great Spirit. Mystics and seekers throughout the ages referred to it as the Divine. Yogis think of it as Prana,...