The Gift

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It is almost Sunday(my favorite day) and today I found an artist who I fell in love with right away. I love her art and I love her spirit. I thought I would give you all a gift and share her with you. Her name is Swoon.

Here is a quote from Swoon:“You start to build something like these boats, and you can’t believe it yourself, but enthusiasm has a way of sparking other people,” she says. “What this project has shown me is that there is no place for pessimistic disbelief in the world; it’s just not useful. Once you’ve decided to be on the side of audacious wonder, beauty, and joy, you can’t go back.”

Read more: HERE

Plus, Happy Birthday Renee! Wherever you are.

Happy Sunday! XOXO

Renee is Free

Our wonderful Renee is now free of her pain. She is dancing and singing and I know having the time of her life. We here left behind will miss her and mourn. Renee was a special, loving, kind woman. Any words I would say cannot match the feelings behind them. I love you dear, raven sister, heart sister, until we meet again...XOXOXOXO
"Death is not extinguishing the light;
it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come."
Rabindranath Tagore
"We are on earth a little spell to bear the beams of love"
William Blake

ALICE!

I have been waiting for months for Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland", in 3D no less.

First, it looks luscious and yummy and second, the mad hatter is played by Johnny Depp.

It opens tomorrow and I already have my tickets. A friend and I will be the first there.

I will give you my review this weekend. FUN!

In more serious, not so fun news, please continue saying prayers and thinking good thoughts for Renee, who continues to battle cancer.

Also my dear mom is doing well as far as healing and such, but she is having a lot of pain, so prayers and good thoughts for her would be much appreciated too.

Happy Thursday. XOXOXO

Being Alive

This week has been one of waiting. Waiting to hear what is happening with our dear friend, Renee. But it has also been a week of living. If Renee, has taught me anything (she has taught me many, many things), it is that today is all we have, this moment, this now. I may be healthy, but a million things can happen in a life, my life could go at any second. It is true for all of us.
I don't know about you, but I want my life to count for something, I want it to be full of friends (it is), joy(most times) and I want my now to be alive. I want to experience all the life and light and nectar of each and every moment. I don't want to waste anymore time on: unhappiness, anger, bitterness, resentment, judgement or pain. My goal (it has been a goal for a long, long time, but Renee has made it seem more urgent than ever) is to love my life, no matter what.
To find the medicine in suffering and to embrace every experience that comes my way. Some good, some bad, happens in each life, what counts is how we deal with it. Some days I am full of self pity, then I think of our wonderful Renee and I am ashamed. No matter what the difficulty's, life is magic, it is a dream and I want to row my boat down stream and nod to every being, and creature and fairy. Love you. XOXO
P.S. When ever I get stressed I sing that wonderful song, Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream, merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily life is but a dream. There is a world of wisdom in those words if you stop to think about it :-).

Snow Day.

My trip to Santa Fe was to be today, but this is what I woke up to. Santa Fe is an hour and a half away and to get there from Taos you have to drive through the mountains or through a canyon and snow makes it dangerous and no fun.

The last two weeks I have been working 12 hour days between work and getting my photos ready, so today I get to do NOTHING! I am looking forward to eating, and reading and blogging and not much else besides taking my dog for a snow walk.

I hope you all have a wonderful day and please keep dear Renee in your thoughts and prayers.

xoxoxo

Our Beautiful Renee

She is leaving us. I am filled with sadness, but also I want her suffering to end.
Many of you know and love Renee as much as I do, I share my sadness with you and send you love as I know you are in pain too. Many of you don't know Renee, I am sorry for you as I cannot imagine not knowing Renee. Renee is one of the bravest, dearest angels that ever walked on the earth, that is why we all love her so much. The next few days will be dark indeed. I do believe that death is an illusion and that Renee is just needed elsewhere, but dammit I will miss her so much! XOXO

New painting in progress

Just to prove that I am actually working on a painting, I took photos so you could see some of the detail so far. I will show you the whole painting when it is finished (which could be a few months from now). (Click on the image to enlarge).

I know I have been posting mostly photos lately, but sometimes I have things to say and sometimes I am brooding :-). Right now I am in brooding mode.

I also have a prayer, good thoughts request: My dear, darling Renee is in real pain and her mother is dying, please keep her in your thoughts and send her some love.

Have a happy week. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo ♥

Collagraphs

This is my very first collagraph I learned how to do from Sukipoet. I don't think it is very good, but okay for a first time. The last photo is the plate I made with file folder paper and cardboard and glue. It was very fun and I am looking forward to doing more (better ones).

In other news mom is going home today, she still cannot walk, but she can get in and out of her wheel chair and move around a bit, her spirits are better now that she is leaving the assisted living.

Sending many prayers out for Haiti and for my dear sweet Renee and family.

Happy Thursday. XOXO ♥