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April 26, 2025 by Jeane George Weigel

An Uncomfortable But Compelling Push-Pull

… it was with some incredible hubris, if not utter disrespect, that I’d made these plans. I knew nothing about Truchas–its rich and complicated history, its heritage, its people, its simple AGE (the village was founded in 1754).

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April 25, 2025 by Jeane George Weigel

The Art of Becoming

Apparent or not, these pieces were all born of the land. They illustrate a period of intense soul searching and growth that could only take place in the embrace of this place I had come to trust.

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April 24, 2025 by Jeane George Weigel

A World of Blue

I was living in a pale blue world. Snow covered the ground and the shadows cast on its surface offered up just about every shade imaginable—the sunlit sky of day with its blue and white clouds… pale blue everywhere.

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April 22, 2025 by Jeane George Weigel

The Dark Horse Series

There was also a small herd of horses pastured on the four acres in front of my house. They were rather skittish at first but, slowly, we got to know each other. Then, in the middle of what could only be called a blizzard, a little one was born. I saw her with her mama just after the sun came up. This wasn’t good.

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April 2, 2025 by Jeane George Weigel

What Robert Motherwell Said…

I set out walking. There is no other way of putting it. I walked and walked, taking in this new place I called home. It was a need, a sort of walking meditation, that soothed something deep inside me.

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March 23, 2025 by Jeane George Weigel

Trusting the Process of Life

I wish for all of us the pursuit of our dreams and the blessing of parents who grant them; to BE the parents who grant them, and the friends who support them. May we all live within our greatest possibilities and trust the process of life.

Filed Under: A Meaningful Life Tagged With: a meaningful life, an artful life, an examined life, art, artful living, artist, being an artist, inspiration, inspirational

March 17, 2025 by Jeane George Weigel

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

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