“It is in facing the unknown that we find out what we know.” Morning pages, 6-3-08 Wi ld Hyacinth We are all afraid of the unknown. This is ...

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”--Emile Zola Azalea We are all ar...

When I passed the young redbud yesterday, the one that lives a short walk from my driveway and introduced me to the snail , I noticed that ...

"Pale as noonday cloudlets are, Floating in the blue, This little wildwood star Blooms in light and dew...." -- Ellen Mackay Hutch...

The Eastern Red Bud parade is in progress. One of our native flowering trees, it sprinkles shades of purple and pink and magenta all over t...

One decision at a time, a painting is formed. One decision at a time, a life is lived. The name of this painting is “Pink”. It began as a...

“When it is my time to create, and I fear that what I have to say will be worth nothing to anyone, I think of these artists who have moved m...

Stay present with the moment. Feel it, sense it, become it. Embrace it fully aware. In joy and in pain, this aliveness will never fail you....

“Many of us venture out into nature looking for signs of life with our cameras. We’re moved by something and we shoot, unaware that there’s ...

Of writing, Natalie Goldberg says , “…it is your friend. It will never desert you, though you may desert it many times. The writing process ...

I so enjoyed this yesterday. In only a few hours, everything had changed. Gone were the airy petals of the morning. The storm left the blos...

"No artist is ever pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine satisfaction, a blessed unrest...

Wildflowers are shy and illusive. They reach up from fallen leaves in demur silence. It would be easy to overlook them. But to stumble upon ...

Delicate, pale, delicious wildflower blooms and whispers come gently, come closer Lie down beside me on my damp bed Earth and behold her bl...

A harbinger “makes known the approach of another [or] heralds”, according Random House. I’ve heard this expression for years, tagged onto c...

The forest floor is coming to life on Tennesee’s Cumberland Plateau in Edgar Evans State Park and Wildlife Management area. At first glance...

“So you see, imagination needs moodling—long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.” --Brenda Ueland