This past autumn, I had the honor of being asked, by one of my long ago wedding clients, to create a new piece of art to celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary. I was asked to make it the same size as the original one, follow roughly the same layout with an arch of lettering at [...]
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Sunday evening I had the communal pleasure of being enveloped in the magic that is a Revels performance. This has come to be the crowning activity of the holiday season for our family, always much anticipated. The Revels are tradition bearers who bring the past to life to cast a light in the joyful present. [...]
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As we enter into the dark half of the year in the northern hemisphere, the night sky takes on extra luminosity and mystery. The vast cosmos whirls overhead as we contemplate our small place in the great universe. Here at the autumn equinox, we contemplate the balance of light and dark, in the length of [...]
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How can I tell you about the beauty of my creek? How can I tell you about the magic that is happening there every minute of the day and night? The mandalas that appear before my eyes, the patterns made of light and wind, water and tree? How, when two circles of ripples meet, diamond [...]
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I like to mark the turning of the year in my art journal, but never know just what form it will take. This was a little scrap of gilding on black paper that was left over from another use, and it resembled the brilliance of the horizon when the sun is rising, oh so early [...]
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The gibbous moon in June, waxing as the year is waxing. So bright, even alongside the setting sun’s bright highlights on the treetops, in the early evening. My companion the moon, day and night. A bit lunatic, in the domain of dreams and cycles, reflections and musings.
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I rose before both the sun and the moon on this shortest day, early enough to catch sight of the balsamic moon rising through the trees. With the sky quickly lightening around her, she soon disappeared into the lighter blue of day. But here was indigo dawn magic, in the predawn chill. The incubating darkness [...]
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I’m making the last remaining Mandala Prayer Wheels available to readers of this journal or followers of Prose and Letters on Facebook, and they will be at Kaleid Gallery for the rest of December. These are made from my Five Sacred Elements card and my Wheel of the Year card, mounted on black-core board and [...]
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A journey through central California offered this lovely respite from driving, on a cloudy and cool Thanksgiving afternoon. We visited San Miguel Archangel, one of the California missions established by the Franciscans in the eighteenth century, each mission a day’s horse ride apart. For us, it was just off Highway 101, and we have stopped [...]
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Cerro Pedernal in northern New Mexico is one of the world’s many mystical and legendary mountains. My favorite moment with it was a summer sunset under a bright gibbous moon. This distinctive flat-topped mountain, part of the Jemez range near Abiquiu, is visible from the Taos road, and all around that country, and most famously [...]
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