A Mindful Life

Seashore / 2″ x 4″ ink on card stock The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless [...]

This is for Claire, who said when she saw it, “It looks like Christmas!”

Kandinsky-Inspired Circles in Squares / 16″ x 20″ acrylic paint on canvas I live my life in growing orbits which move out over this wondrous world. I am circling around God, around ancient towers, and I have been circling for a thousand years. And I still don’t know if I am an eagle or a [...]

Abstract Landscape / 2.5″ x 3.5″ ink on smooth Bristol paper The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where [...]

Red Giant / 8.5″ x 11″ foam mosaic on black card stock Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us — there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries. [...]

“I’m afraid I can’t be counted among those who’ve latched onto the Goddess as a politically correct alternative to God the Father. The Transcendent Principle–the Divine, if you will–is no more wholly female than it is wholly male. “To be sure, the Divine has feminine aspects and masculine aspects, but its cumulative aspects transcend gender [...]

Offering / 5″ x 6″ color pencil on card stock In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. -Rumi

Kandinsky-Inspired Abstract / 11″ x 17″ marker on watercolor paper …lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and … stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to “walk about” into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want? -Wassily Kandinsky

Blue Moon Love / 6″ x 8″ oil pastel, ink, and marker on card stock The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight. -William C. Bryant

Swirly Kitty / 8.5″ x 11″ marker on paper Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the ‘creative bug’ is just a [...]