Gallery owner, Michelle Gaugy, introduced novel ideas in her lecture about the evolution of the artist; points that I have personally experienced. She said that a craftsman is invested in the finished product, the object, but an artist is not. The artist creates inspired, unexplained, purposeless art that has become “art for art’s sake”. This… Read more »
My son, daughter-in-law, and two toddler grandchildren came to visit me for a few days. I was so excited for them to come. I prepared food, books, bubbles, and researched museums and activities that were child-friendly. I moved all of my breakable sculptures to a high shelf and bought fruit so we could make apple-plum… Read more »
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of “Eat, Pray, Love”, was interviewed on Oprah yesterday. Authentic and forthright, she shared much of her learned wisdom. She has been open about her miserably failed first marriage. She couldn’t continue to live the life of marriage and motherhood that her mother and community had expected of her. Her broken and… Read more »
What I like about Santa Fe is that it is not adversarial. The pervasive attitude seems to be one of being helpful. In the three months that I have been here, I have heard a car horn twice, and one of those times was me warning a car that was about to back into mine… Read more »
Yesterday I had a healing session with a Master Qigong teacher. Master Liu began her training at the age of four by her grandfather, a Qigong Master and Chinese medical doctor who treated the last emperor of China. By age 14, Master Liu was given permission to teach and to perform healing techniques on others…. Read more »
Visiting with my 87-year-old mother was more healing than I had expected. I was excited to show her my new home and all of the things that I have come to love in Santa Fe. I was looking forward to having fun together, but in casual moments we both found healing and gifts that were… Read more »
Over the weekend, I attended a lecture by Dr.Garland Landrith, a specialist in Tapping (also known as EFT) who heals past wounds and reframes memories to diminish the effect our triggers have on us. He brought up some points that rang true in their simplicity and importance. We all know that feelings of major traumas… Read more »
Did anyone see the Global Citizen Festival in New York yesterday? I caught the end of it on tv. The organization has a remarkable goal to end extreme poverty worldwide by 2030. We have the resources to do it. Artists, world leaders and common people coming together to bring attention to the condition of… Read more »
I’m at the Santa Fe airport on my way to visit my grandchildren in Michigan. What a hoot! There is one gate with a little conveyer belt next to it that they call Baggage Claim. Someone asked me where Baggage Claim was, and I told her that she just walked past it. And the zones… Read more »
When I first came up with the idea to move, people asked me what I hoped to find in Santa Fe. I answered that I wanted to be part of a community and to be closer to the land. I didn’t really know what that meant or what it would look like. Last night when… Read more »