My fifth Sunday practice is to take the day off from my usual mandala making to reflect on the practice and whatever life has happened along the way. Indeed, life happened. Lots of it. My usual habits and routines were completely disrupted over the past three months, with May being a time of celebration and life transitions.
Read MoreOn the 27th day of May in the year 2017, at nearly fifty-two years old, I became a bride. My beloved and I met in 2004, but neither of us were ready for what love required. In spite of a deep connection and affection for one another, we couldn't make it work. After a couple of years our paths diverged in seeming opposite directions.
Read MoreAmy Lyles Wilson lives just over a half hour drive away from my home in Middle Tennessee. Our paths never crossed until we arrived at Kanuga Lake in Hendersonville, North Carolina as new students in the Haden Institute Spiritual Direction program. We were assigned to different cohort groups, but when she introduced herself during our first gathering as one whose call is to "work at the intersection of creativity and spirituality" I knew I needed to get to know her better.
Read MoreThis being the fifth Sunday of the month, I'm taking a break from my weekly mandala making to reflect on the season and my practice. Instead of gathering natural elements on my morning walk, I took my camera with me to capture some of the beauty that may not be available for my mandala making next week.
Read MoreOne spectacular Autumn morning in 2003, I went out for my daily walk and was so captivated by the light and color that I could not resist going back to the house to retrieve my little point and shoot digital camera. Hours passed as if mere minutes, and it wasn’t until fatigue and sore feet became an issue that I reluctantly trudged home.
Read MoreWhen I met Carmen Joyce last year while training together as SoulCollage® facitators , I was immediately impressed by her drive and vision help others heal through creativity. She exemplifies what it means to live creativity daily, and always has something wonderful going on with her personal art projects and with the people she serves through the non-profit arts healing organization she founded.
Read MoreOne of the best parts of the various workshops, courses, and training programs I am drawn to are the unique and talented individuals that I meet. Shannon Fitzgerald, a fellow SoulCollage® facilitator, is one such person. As you can tell by her work featured here today, she is a supremely gifted and versatile artist. She generously ferried me, a total stranger, around Charlotte, NC during our facilitator training--saving me from having to rent a car for the week. In that time, we shared many wonderful conversations about creativity, spirituality and our future plans over evening meals and our short commute to Catherine Anderson's studio.
Read MoreThe Creative Contemplative invites seekers to explore creativity as spiritual practice; nurturing our relationship to divine mystery through the arts.
