Bats in the Belfry

Last summer we had a mouse that built a nest in our BBQ several times. One time I opened the cabinet doors on the BBQ and found a toad sitting inside the doorframe. We’ve even found a toad clinging to the inside of the patio table umbrella.
But a bat was the last animal [...]

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Gardening: A Practice in Acceptance

Within 72 hours or so of posting about gardening as a spiritual practice, I learned that gardening is also a practice in acceptance when Eric commented “Someone has been eating our hostas.”
Sure enough, a young female deer had foraged through the garden bed closest to the house and did serious damage to the once large [...]

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Power Objects

A recent passage in Shakti Gawain’s book Awakening described power objects.  Power objects are those items that we are drawn to while we walk.  You know what happens.  You’re out walking, looking around, and something on the ground catches your eye.  It could be a stone, a leaf, a stick, a pinecone.  Sometimes you pick it [...]

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Flylady

Ah March, when thoughts turn to daffodils and tulips; when the herons return to the rookery and raise their babies; when you look at the pile of magazines you’ve collected over the winter, the dust bunnies breeding under the furniture, and the stack of winter clothes ready for donation and you think:
TIME FOR SPRING CLEANING!
Okay, [...]

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Sustaining Our Environment Postcard Exhibit

Earlier this month I submitted my postcards for the Women’s Art Caucus (WCA) Sustaining Our Environment Postcard exhibit.  All the postcards submitted for this exhibit are now on their way to Dallas, TX for the WCA national convention where they will be displayed and auctioned.
The WCA has an international committee which is an NGO to [...]

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Full Wolf Moon

The Full Wolf Moon is so named because of the wolf packs that howled outside the Native American villages.  This moon is also referred to as the Old Moon or the Moon after Yule.
Have you ever howled at the full moon?
Give it a try.  It made me laugh.  And laughter is always good.

Photo by Bryan Harry

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Hope to Atone (What the Snow Melt Revealed) Postcard

For my second postcard for the WCA exhibit, I planned to collect some items found during a walk in the neighborhood and was going to title the postcard “What the Snow Melt Revealed.”
I collected bits of trash, including a crumpled newspaper page, candy wrappers, a straw and a crushed can.  It wasn’t until I started to wrap [...]

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My Sweet World Postcard

Here is one postcard I plan to send for submission in the WCA’s Sustaining Our Environment Postcard exhibit.  This postcard is made from an old Christmas card, candy wrappers, and images and letters from old magazines.

My Sweet World (January 200
The submission deadline for this exhibit has been extended to February 18.  You can read more about [...]

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Art Date: New Art Center-icons & altars 2007

On Friday I visited the icons & altars 2007 show at the New Art Center in Newton.  icons & altars is the New Art Center’s 14th Annual Benefit Exhibition that features the work of 98 regional artists who were invited to create an ‘icon’ or ‘altar’ that was social, personal, spiritual, or cultural.
Some of the [...]

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First Snow

We had our first measureable snow fall today.  I love the first snow fall of the season.  I love the way the snow sticks to the trees and plants, covering them in a protective blanket, embracing nature in the wrap of winter. 
There is something peaceful about the first snow fall.  It is as if winter [...]

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