Articles to Inspire

This is a beautiful time of the year, turning season and shifting gears while Nature gives us a riot of colors and a cornucopia of Autumnal foods. Summer is definitely behind us as we look forward to more time indoors. Our homes get more attention and it’s a nice time to fluff our nest before

It’s hard wired in me, this need for observation, contemplation, and this acute perception of the world around me. It comes with awe, with glee, with reverence, increasingly with each passing year. Beauty, beauty everywhere… The simplest things in our daily life are holding so much beauty in them, it is astonishing for who wants

I have to tell you, I am a Blue Spot Hunter… In all there is, all that happens, all that becomes, exists a spark, a hope, a goodness of some kind, no matter what. In the darkest moments, a seed of pure light, embedded, awaits our seeking. This simple awareness can make the difference between

Independence Day…This is one of the most celebrated holidays in USA. People of all ages and all walks of life mingle in the streets all over the States to celebrate what started by becoming free from the British tutelage and has evolved in a popular day of drinking, barbecuing and boasting… I have to admit

Simplicity, clarity and mindfulness when applied deliberately in one’s daily life, make for a quality of presence in the moment that illuminates and deepens my experience of being in remarkable ways. I keep forgetting, and reminding myself this. Actually painting can not occur if I don’t remember to be fully present in a non-obstructive way…

Relationning: the position, association, connection, or status of one person or thing with regard to another or others While traveling abroad, I had an interesting conversation with a friend of mine, someone I always enjoy verbally jousting with and whose point of view I always appreciate. It was precisely about relationships. Our views differed. The

We are living in a world of sensory stimulation. One of the definitions of Art could be “an organized ensemble of sensory signals designed to express and evoke a particular emotional or/and intellectual response in the human psyche”… Aware of it or not, we live in societies were artistic creation is present everywhere. Art is

As I drove up Route One,  from Bolinas, I realized that in a week time, all the fields had grown a good layer of fuzzy young grass, making the whole landscape turn bright green. I mean GREEN!… Happy young cattle, black and shiny and unaware of their destiny, barely ever raise their heads from the