Risk Boosts Creativity

Blank canvas, piles of colored cloth, stacks of brightly colored thread, a beautiful piece of 22×30 200 pound Arches paper—even a delectable pile of fresh

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Life & Spirituality

Right Brain Left Brain

Sometimes events are so simple that they become complicated.  It is the second day of the New Year. After a respite from all computer work,

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Mind & Personal Development

Mending

The tasks in my life at this moment are multiple, disparate and immediate.  “Now! Now!! Me first!!!”  they all clamor. Last night I stepped over

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Plan:Antiplan

Plan/Antiplan/unplan/Time I find myself, in this preholiday stillness, with large piles of unrelated projects.  Bills to pay, digital files, website planning, new workshops planned for

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Figuring stuff out is Weird

So you might wonder why there’s a shovel here. Imagine if you had all this snow and you didn’t have a shovel. What if there

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Life & Spirituality

First day of November

First day of November — may seem as though it’s a time of ending as we see the leaves falling and the grass turning brown

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New Beginnings

Sometimes you just have to step back and start small. Inch by inch, color changes are laid out on a grid. Precision stitching allows meditative

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Solstice

Every year, I celebrate the winter Solstice by lighting a fire just before sunset and keeping it going throughout the long winters night until just

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Inspiration

Creative Color

I have not written for quite a while.  At the beginning of 2021, I was publishing on Medium.  I still plan to keep that up. 

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Artist Struggles- Ken LeBaron

  This journal entry from my father is such a personal story of an artist’s discouragement; it is from the artist journal of my late

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Watermelon video

I love molten aluminum, ever since I watched the aluminum pours at RISD as a graduate student.  So when I came across this video, I

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Turtle Shell Symbolism

I  found this turtle shell sitting right on the tip of the hill waiting for me on a summer walk. Upon researching,  found turtle shells

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Oh!!!

It is very interesting.  I have found, over the years, that I often find the most difficult way to do something, and then I do

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