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My stomach rolled with anxiousness and excitement, like a little girl getting to pick her first pony. Stacey lead me to the barn where half a dozen stunning rescue horses awaited their call to duty. I wanted to work with all of the horses; each seemed to share something unique and deeply appealing. However, it was Halo that captured me and drew me in. Her crisp, sea-blue eyes, braided mane and black and white prints were breathtaking. Her beauty was…
When I was about 15 years old, I had just moved from Montana to the Tempe area and I was doing some deep soul searching. I was finding ways of connecting to a place of peace within myself and learning how tame the monsters in my complicated, teenage mind. One day while walking around Kiwanis park, I stumbled, literally, upon a beautiful, antique looking, gold leafed Buddhist meditation book….which, years later, I intentionally left at the same park, hoping it…
Recently my boys and I decided to create art from nature found objects. We made little paintbrushes from dried, stripped and frayed yucca leaves, paste from ground mesquite beans, and textures from leaves, fibers and dirt. We smashed up and grinded flower petals, seeds, cacti and pomegranate fruit to make rich colors and we painted on flat stones and the soft under belly of bark from our Eucalyptus tree. Our hands and feet were stained with earth colors and it…
How often do you preface your statements with, “I really should”, or “I shouldn’t”? Well, if you are like me, it’s often enough that it has become an annoying habit. I have been vigilantly observing my language and choice of semantics in my self-study and I realized that ‘should’ is a distasteful word that doesn’t serve me. It lends to obligation, criticism, expectation (yours and that of others), guilt, shame and projection to future outcome. It is a word of…
