The first step in awakening to your inner life and to the depth and promise of your solitude would be to consider yourself for a little while as a stranger to your own deepest depths. To decide to view yourself as a complete stranger, someone who has just stepped ashore in your life is a …
Dali!
When The Muse takes over. It is on Her terms for sure. Needed to do a portrait for Creative Arts Art Show. Who better than Dali!? Didn\’t anticipate staying up until midnight to get this painted. It\’s acrylic on canvas, 9 x 12. I haven\’t painted for years. And yet…here he is. For me, Dali …
Look Ma! I\’m Famous!
Just published in a Chicago Magazine! Cool beans. Meet Janet Balboa in North West Chicago VOYAGECHICAGO STAFF Today we’d like to introduce you to Janet Balboa. Janet, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today? When I was seven, I watched my mom wallpaper my room. She …
Look Ma! I\’m Famous!
Just published in a Chicago Magazine! Cool beans. Meet Janet Balboa in North West Chicago VOYAGECHICAGO STAFF Today we’d like to introduce you to Janet Balboa. Janet, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today? When I was seven, I watched my mom wallpaper my room. She …
Mary: work in progress
Art and Eternity
My friend Linda tells me that there is a palpable feeling that exists around the works of the old masters. She says standing in front of a Caravaggio she felt a presence, a feeling. Another friend gets the shivers from Gustav Klimt\’s, The Kiss. How is this possible? Is it the recognition of a perfect composition? …
Monet refuses the operation
Doctor, you say there are no halos around the streetlights in Paris and what I see is an aberration caused by old age, an affliction. I tell you it has taken me all my life to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels, to soften and blur and finally banish the edges you regret …
We are them.
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The Moon Cycle. A gentler way of being
Here\’s my contribution to the New Moon. I wanted something simple I could follow to help get back into a circular conception of time, balancing the usual linear timeline with something more organic. I couldn\’t find anything – so I created it. Feel free to copy and print it- that\’s what I\’m doing with it. …
When Life happens – and a nod to Pope Joan.
The worst sin is ingratitude, which is a forgetting of the greatness, beauty, truth and goodness of the Source that is constantly creating us – in other terms, a forsaking of Being, and the Good. My favorite Leloup quote today, from The Gospel of Mary Magdalene. Today I had my day all planned out, my …