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March 17, 2025 by Jeane George Weigel 2 Comments

Day Trip

The trip was filled with ghosts and they or the land, or both, gripped my soul on this sunny New Mexico day when Kim and I journeyed back in time and experienced the conceived utopia of another era and a sense of the lives lived within it, in old houses and on ancient land.

Filed Under: A Meaningful Life, Beautiful New Mexico, Southwest History, Southwest Living Tagged With: a meaningful life, an artful life, art, artful living, artist, beautiful New Mexico, being an artist, D. H. Lawrence, D. H. Lawrence in Taos, inspiration, simple living, simplifying, writer

June 26, 2019 by Jeane George Weigel Leave a Comment

Dennis Hopper in Taos

“In the late 1960s at the height of his career, Dennis Hopper left Hollywood for artistic bohemia in New Mexico. His daughter looks back on a man in search of free expression and a more contemplative way of life.” This from the NYT tmagazine blog.

Filed Under: A Meaningful Life, Artist Profiles, Beautiful New Mexico, Southwest History, Southwest Living Tagged With: Dennis Hopper in Taos

June 23, 2019 by Jeane George Weigel Leave a Comment

Georgia O’Keeffe’s Introduction to New Mexico

I can imagine the two very strong-willed people, each staking their creative claim to New Mexico’s high desert, feeling competitive with each other, each trying to make her mark.

Filed Under: A Meaningful Life, Beautiful New Mexico, Southwest History, Southwest Living Tagged With: D. H. Lawrence in Taos, Georgia O'Keefe in Taos, Georgia O'Keeffe, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Mabel Dodge Luhan House, Mabel Dodge Luhan in Taos, Taos history, Taos Moderns

June 18, 2019 by Jeane George Weigel Leave a Comment

Georgia O’Keeffe’s White Place

I did not set out seeking Georgia as so many seem to do. I just went on a hike with friends. It didn’t occur to me until days later that we were in Georgia O’Keeffe’s White Place.

Filed Under: Beautiful New Mexico, Southwest History, Southwest Living Tagged With: Georgia O'Keeffe, Georgia O'Keeffe's White Place, New Mexico art, New Mexico beauty, new mexico history, Plaza Blanca

April 13, 2019 by Jeane George Weigel Leave a Comment

Retreat!

… turn that long, painful look inside to the feelings generated within us by what we see–because those feelings we can do something about. Those we can heal. But we don’t get to heal things that are outside of us.

Filed Under: A Meaningful Life, Beautiful New Mexico, Southwest Living Tagged With: artful life, continuing, healing journey, life lessons, life resiliency, recovery, we continue

May 23, 2018 by Jeane George Weigel 8 Comments

The Sugar Nymphs Bistro, Peñasco, NM

They always begin every meal, every cake, every dish, with the very best ingredients available. They never scrimp because of costs, and this is just one of the many ways the Sugar Nymphs shine above so many others.

Filed Under: Southwest Living Tagged With: an artful life, artful living, bistro, breakfast, Cooking, country living, great food, High Road to Taos, living well, small pleasures

June 12, 2016 by Jeane George Weigel 2 Comments

We Thought We Knew

Although Mabel was a wealthy New York heiress born in 1879, we do share this: We both came to New Mexico with rather cavalier attitudes about it.

Filed Under: Beautiful New Mexico, Southwest History, Southwest Living Tagged With: a soulful life, an artful life, art, artful living, being an artist, history, Mabel Dodge Luhan, writer

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About High Road Artist IMG 9461 150x150I am Jeane George Weigel, a working artist living in the mountains of northern New Mexico, and I do not think you and I are so different.

Every single one of us longs to know what we ache for, to “follow our bliss” as Joseph Campbell famously put it. You may find yours as an artist, a writer, or a teacher. But I am convinced we all yearn to live what is in our hearts. Some of us spend a lifetime discovering what that is. Some never find it.

This blog is about a journey of self-discovery, yours and mine. I write about the experience of living an artist’s life and share musings and photos as this living experiment unfolds. It is my hope you’ll join in the conversation by writing to me about your lives and I dearly hope something, here, will inspire you.

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