Singing Again

I didn’t sing for 20 plus years. I am a trained singer. My first degree was a Bachelor in Music and Special Ed with voice as my major instrument. But then I got married.
Why I put my voice and other creative talents virtually away in a box I may never know. All I know, and [...]

Nothing more to DO!

I am doing my art journal again. There is so much going on these days in the world, in my head, in my heart …  I find doing my art helps me work through emotions and get my thoughts clear.
Yesterday I sat at my journal, filled with anger at myself for staying in a [...]

“You Are the Chalice!”

During a visionary art workshop, I saw, in my mind’s eye, a healing image of a chalice being held up by two hands. I was struggling. My mind went to work, playing with line and color, trying to bring that image into form on the paper. The hands I drew were stiff, the chalice lifeless. [...]

Creative Expression – Avenue to God

It has been my life long passion to dance, draw, sing, move, play and be in the joy of the moment. But I didn’t know that for soooooo long.
I put my creativity away, behind a curtain, to fit in and be like all the other moms and wives in my corporate circles. When I participated [...]

Lightening up with improv

Last night I went to my improvisational acting class. The depth of stuff that gets revealed as my classmates and I tell our stories is pretty amazing.  Without much preparation, we allow solo pieces to emerge from our memories and sub-conscious. This can be quite surprising, even to ourselves.
That is the beauty of improv. It [...]

Art and Collective Creativity

January 2009 rolled around. It was a whole new year for me. A whole new life. I get to claim ME, not worrying about what anyone else thinks and hopefully not stopping myself anymore.
I feel like journaling, painting, pulling out all those supplies I have collected all these years. But wait… maybe I should get [...]

Soul Painting

Immersed in an intuitive painting class led by Julie Claire in El Rito, New Mexico, I stopped thinking and allowed my paint and paintbrush to take over. I was amazed and more than delighted to discover how  the paint came on the canvas like an explosion of fireworks, or how globs of paint that looked [...]