The Silver Lining: We See What’s on Paper, but We Don’t See Anybody’s Pain.
I can see people for who they are, past their bad decisions and horrible mistakes. And even after all this pain, I don’t want it any other way.
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The Artist as a Shaman: Keeping the Great Story of the Human Experience Alive.
As long as the effort is applied from a place of compassion and service, the cultivated skills of an artist can be a gateway to a higher understanding.
Liquid Alchemy: The Importance of the Artist’s Process.
The path of creation can become a path back home. The artist's process of creation can have the power of alchemy -- the power of magical transformation.
Tents and Pretense: Being Mutually Malicious in Our Omissions.
How much of our regard hides contempt for their radius because of their recrudescence? How often do we seek surrogates to support our need to connect with something more humane? How ably do artists embrace this task, however restricted their role?
She Is a Living Mandala of Light and Shadow: How to Love a Tortured Artist.
She is a living mandala of light and shadow, and she owes you nothing; she is the cocooned Creatrix unfurling wings so fragile they would crumble in sunlight.
Fear no Art, for You Are the Maker of Worlds.
As an artist with many other non-artistic things to do, I have often found it difficult to switch gears. Then I changed my mindset on the whole coming-home-from-work thing. I'm an artist when I take out the trash. I'm an artist who just happens to answering phones. I'm an artist who is writing ...
Divine Weavers: Honoring Our Mothers As Artists.
Deeply disheartened in her marriage, yet pregnant with her second child, my mother had put all of her winter hope into her garden. When her flower beds were destroyed that spring, she got down on all fours, her round belly caressing the earth, and ran her fingers through the soil, desperately ...
When The Story Changes.
Sometimes we have to let people go, even when we don’t want to, even if we never imagined a future without them. Sometimes we have no choice, so we have to make peace with that, as hard as it is. We can struggle against it, we can resist. Or we can set the other person free, and set ourselves ...
Why Your Creative Business Has Left You A Starving Artist.
When I looked at people who were still in love with their artwork and their creative expression, I saw that they gave it a certain space to truly expand and evolve. They treated it with the reverence it deserved, and because of that, they stayed utterly enthralled with their work.
10 Things I’ve Learned As I Attempt To Catch Up With My Soul.
This explains why, in the past, I’ve played the parental figure in most of my relationships, or why I enjoy shooting the shit with the elderly patrons that frequent my neighborhood café.