This article has been very meaningful to me over the years and I’m just realizing, now, that I have begun to live and create in this way, more fully than I’ve ever been able to do before. The First Stone by Jeanne Marie Laskas Mack, the builder of walls, is out in the front yard […]
Belief and Forgiveness
Holy Week, the week before Good Friday and Easter Sunday, is very meaningful here in northern New Mexico. I spoke with Isabro Ortega about it today (see previous post Isabro Ortega: Master Carver). Isabro grew up very religious, very Catholic. He says, “It’s always been a tradition, as long as I can remember, walking to […]
Marco Oviedo: Keeping Art Alive
Marco Oviedo has been making art since he was six years old. “Longer than I want to admit,” he says with a grin. He belongs to one of very few families that have carried on the exact same traditions for over 500 years. With noticeable pride, he showed me a photograph of a sculpture created […]
Bring You Alive : David Whyte
I absolutely love the poet, David Whyte. His poems have been sustenance to me in times of trouble and joyous exclamations when I celebrate. This is one of my favorites: Sweet Darkness When your eyes are tired the world is tired also. When your vision has gone, no part of the world can find you. […]
Rescue Dog’s Happy Success Story: Finn Thrives
This coming Wednesday Finn will have been with me for two weeks–see previous post, Rescue Dog: Meet Finn (Survivor). It fills my heart with joy all the ways this sweet, sweet dog has come around. He is putting on weight faster than I’d hoped was possible. He sleeps, something he really couldn’t do very well […]
Artist Materials From the Land
As most of you know I’ve begun a new series of paintings I’m calling The Micaceous Series. A reader of the blog, Grace Kane, calls them my earth paintings and she is so right. I am making them with earth and straw, the recipe for adobe. The longer I live here on this land, the […]
Don’t Get Over It!
I have had this article, originally published in a small northwest magazine called Common Ground, and written by Melissa West, since sometime in the early 80’s. It spoke to me then and it still does now. Its subject is in keeping with our conversations over the last couple of weeks, so I wanted to share […]