Join me for a little conversation now and then, as I explore my own authenticity while also helping you discover yours. I will share my own life path of not knowing I was an artist to the very surprising discovery that indeed, I must be one. Though not the usual kind. This, plus my behind-the-scenes career in fabric fashion retailing gives me a unique perspective I want to share with you. The journey through my mind can be quite entertaining! Hang on, it may be a wild ride through nature, heritage, popular culture, and all things tactile….. A high point for me would be that I inspire artistry in you and together we create an awesome community to explore our similar passions.
Doodles & Oodles of Leaves…keeping pace with my imagination
My eyes are always wide open to the beauty in nature all around me but last Friday was overload after my eye exam and dilated eyes! Oh my, even with sunglasses, the bright sunshine & colors brightened my spirits and made me squint. Talk about eyes wide open. In...
Warm Wisdom
The recent freeze across the country brings to mind a timely story I have been waiting to post. Also, today is the one-year anniversary of my self-commitment to write and share my thoughts regularly on this site with you. Thank you for joining me and supporting my...
Love & Light and Thank You
Wishing you the light and love of the season, ... that it may lighten our path toward a brighter 2021. Thank you for your kind support of my inner impulse to connect during a most difficult year for mankind, our country, ourselves, and our families. I treasure our...
Harvesting Gratitude
I wrote the following little story 5 years ago. It still warms true in my heart each Thanksgiving so I am sharing it once more. I have updated the words and photos to help you enjoy it with more delightful detail. (Previous post: Grateful Harvest 2015) Traditionally,...
Coping and Hoping
You are going to have to wait for my prose When Not Enough is Enough and Fairy Fashion Mountain Camp for now. I'm wrestling with the value of timing and whether it matters. For now, I think it does. I have been trying to post/communicate with you since mid-August. My...
Garden Tapestry
The word Garden, itself, brings solace. It speaks known pleasure from fullness, sensuous dollops of color, flitting birds, busy butterflies & bees, movement in a breeze, perhaps a welcoming pathway or water sound, earth, grounding, thirsty land or moist...
Mask-querade
I have been royally fooled, teased and tormented by Time, dressed in the guise of the Pandemic. Or the Pandemic, dressed in the guise of Time. For me, the Pandemic Shelter in Place (SiP) experience has been a masquerade dance with Masks (the very symbol of the...
Pandemic Pause
I am not going to make my self imposed 2020 goal to post a new essay on April month end, but Business is NOT As Usual, so I forgive myself. In fact, it even seems appropriate. I feel many emotions and burdens from the 2020 Pandemic public health and economic crisis...
Sheltering in Place
This phrase is now lodged in our consciousness. Here we are. Put in our place. I wrote the little piece that follows, Finding my Place, a long while back (and didn't post it for reasons explained in my previous Phento post ;/ Timing???....) I remembered it this week...
Phento Overwhelm, An Artist’s Digress
(or as my family calls it, my "Di-gress," as in Dianne's Di-lemmas) I learned at a national conference, oh-so-long-ago in 2014.... that Nano second, was, even then, considered SLOW at a billionth of a second, and, even then, being replaced by Phento which is a...