Caring for the Soul through Creative, Sacred, Healing Arts
December 2025 – Beauty Calls Us Beyond Ourselves
On a macro level, December has been a tough month. I don't need to give any of it energy. These monthly blog posts are my offering of respite from the madness. I hope you find some here. On the micro level, our SF Bay Area weather has been unusual: cold, [...]
November 2025 Maybe the Desire to Make Beauty
"Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us." - Mary Oliver. Reflecting on this quote, I wonder if it isn't just as meaningful to say, "Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the peace of God that is inside [...]
October 2025 The Core of Beauty
Words are hard to come by this month, as it has been so rich and rewarding visually from start to finish. And maybe that's just what we need during these heavy times, to simply pause and soak in the beauty that makes itself available when we have eyes to see. [...]
September 2025 Life is hard but so very Beautiful
Dear Friends, The world turns. Another month has passed. Here we are, barely if able, to keep up. Even if one doesn't read the news, the energy in the air is unavoidably oppressive. The willful abuse of power. Greed. Violence. Genocide. Cruelty. The trampling of our most basic human rights [...]
August 2025 Dwell on the Beauty of Life
Hi Friends, I just want to take a moment to say that I am right here with you, doom scrolling and waking up most mornings from nightmares. When the pandemic landed five years ago, I started focusing on Beauty as my medicine, inspired by the wisdom of Francis Weller, psychologist, [...]
July 2025 Walk on Earth with Respect, See Beauty All Around
When Guiding Lights Go Out I, like so many, are mourning the deaths of Colorado Poet Laureate, Andrea Gibson, on July 14; and EcoDharma Leader, Joanna Macy, on July 19. Andrea's Gibson's poetry first became known to me when Wild Writing teacher, Laurie Wagner, invited them to our zoom writing [...]
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