Jester Joy

Jester Joy

Lifting spirits along the May Day Parade route, creative souls walked tall in the streets. How must it feel to move and wave and smile from inside one’s creative expression? Creative fire on stilts this time! No, our creativity isn’t always part of a...

Blank Canvas

Some feel daunted by a blank page or a clean canvas. I rather like it. A bit too comfortable, perhaps, with the possibility of what could be written or could be painted, I enjoy hanging around ready-to-go canvases and pristine new notebooks. Is the prepping stage...

Meeting Paths

Have you ever met someone in person that you’ve known and admired for some time? That’s what I got to do when I met Jennifer Lee, author of the Right-Brain Business Plan(R) and a genuinely amazing and creative human being. Out in the Bay Area of...

Social Tending

The wasps are alive!  That was my goal.  When I discovered water finding its way into the basement via an ill-fitting and leaf-clogged downspout, I borrowed my neighbor’s ladder.  Then, just in time, I saw the wasps, above my back door and two feet from the...

Listening

The smallest space on my studio table seems to be enough to tell a story.  A bunch of buttons, paint swatches and a new painting complete.  I wasn’t so sure about this painting just before the last layer.  Was it done?  Had I messed it up?  Had I lost faith? I...

Tune Up

So, on Sunday I came home after church and a quick unsuccessful search for free wood chips and I saw that my neighbor Eli was tending to his garage sale.  Eli is a bike wizard.  Just for fun, he and a buddy  have rounded up dozens of secondhand bikes, fixed them up...