A Meaningful Life

Think about solitude and our culture for just a minute. Do you ever wish things were simpler? In general it seems life, these days, is always so full. Between jobs, appointments, errands, time with friends and family members, where do people find space to be totally alone? Most are bombarded every single day with millions […]

I am way too malleable. Among the many definitions of this are: Capable of being altered or controlled by outside forces; Easily influenced; Able to be hammered or pressed permanently out of shape without breaking or cracking. That would be me. Do any of you run into this? Just when I think I’m being true […]

I have come to this village to learn what it means to love. I see that clearly tonight, under the light of a full moon.

Something happened the other day and I don’t know, yet, what it was. Kathy and I did a road trip to Abiquiu and Ghost Ranch as a treat on her last day here. I’d never been to either, which is amazing because they’re only about an hour and a half away from my house. For […]

Kathy just left for Albuquerque and the airport and a return flight home to Massachusetts. What an amazing three days we’ve had. Our conversations were deep and challenging, our art stirring within us both. How to make artful lives is an enormous issue for most of us living in this culture, how to earn our […]

Kathy has just come to visit from Great Barrington, Massachusetts. I met her with her husband, Mike, in Anna and my gallery this past season when they bought one of my favorite paintings, Blue 2. We felt this amazing connection—all three of us. They stayed and talked for a couple of hours. I love that […]

I think one of the main reasons we come, as spirits, into this physical realm, is to feel love through our hearts.