And here I go...

If nothing else, 2020, the year of pause, gave me clarity about what is important and what I want to focus on creatively and personally. I posted my first picture for 2021 on instagram today. It kind of feels like a send off as I enter into the new year with clear intention and three passions:

Art

Mixed media artist Kelly Rae said recently on her blog:

“When I create, I’m at peace. I feel brave. I feel healing on all levels. I feel connected with Spirit, and to my own light. From that place, so much is born. Joy! Abundance! Community! Purpose!”

Yes.

I have been on a creative journey that began a decade ago when I gingerly stepped into visual self expression with art mediums I’d never used before. This interest soon flared into this full blown passion for color and line and form—and all things art supplies. And then before I knew it I had an art studio where I taught art journaling and mixed media.. and then this passon again transformed into a drawing obsession—art that will take the rest of my life to explore.

Earth

I am most fortunate to live and spend time in mountains and beaches. I have done so all my life. As I witness the growing effects of the climate crisis both in my own California and around the globe, and study the science of what’s to come if we don’t alter our disconnected, industrial war on the planet, I commit to change.

I step into my deep love for nature, our planet and all living beings and I will share what I love and learn about what we can all do to protect this most sacred world.

Spirit

When I talk about nature and art, I can’t help but refer to spirit. Because, of course, they are all connected. In nature and in our own creative impulse, we get closer to understanding and connecting to the mysteries of the universe. To the love and connection that binds us in innumerable ways to the earth, to each other—and to ourselves.

More and more I try to be conscious and present to not just the material forms, but the spiritual web inside and out, within, between and among us. This is also my work—our work. The work of our lifetimes.

And so I step into the portal.

Let’s hold hands and go together.