Category: Art

  •     You know that you must be busy when you are surprised by the crescent moon in the evening sky.   Where did that week go? It feels like someone is bending time and it's impossible to keep up.   Breathe.   Being busy is a good thing, as long as you can punctuate…

  •     St. Augustine Music Festival, at the Cathedral Basilica, the last night, Mozart and more Mozart!   Sublime. The sound of the strings in this church is so wonderful, it transports you to another time and place. Oboe and horn are also just as wonderful! Piano too.   Thank you to SAMF Chamber Orchestra,…

  •     Have you ever listened to someone's life story and thought, this can't be true? How could she have done all of those things in 55 years?   Well, wait until you are 60, you realize that – yes – it was all possible and true!   The butterfly lives for a very short…

  •     Pain. Physical pain.   Whenever it happens to me, I know it is going to kill me. Then I remember the little tricks I have in my bag to relieve it – and cure it.   Some tapping. (EFT) Checking in with Louise Hay's book, You Can Heal Your Life. Sleep. Ice. Dit…

  •     The very best advice that I have given myself lately has been to be open and loving, and honest about my own needs and desires. Like the new fronds of the Sago Palm, open to the light and air and love all around.          

  •     The other side of the screen- the painted fern.   Happy Summer Solstice! Enjoy the long day.            

  •     Is it any wonder that humans took to painting and drawing? Here the sun paints the fern onto the screen.      

  •     When we are young, it is more difficult not to have regrets. We like to think that there are none, but usually there is something niggling in our hearts that we wish we had done better, or been stronger or kinder.   These will pass into oblivion once we see that the story…

  •     No egrets. Oh, one egret.   No regrets.   (Mostly.)       Great Egret at sunset. Borrowed from LainesBlog, June, 2013.  

  •     There is a charming young person who is painting our house, whose smile is so sunny that its effect stays with you for hours, and you find yourself smiling to yourself just remembering it!   Don't forget that your smile can do that for someone. It can even brighten up an already bright…