Wonder-is the awakening of the heart, bringing heart and mind into a new threshold of the soul. This is our invitation- to find the beauty and joy each day. I have found the practice of simply paying attention, to see, draw and watercolor gives me this presence. The result is gratitude, and delight.
What are you grateful for today?
- Elizabeth
Love, Blessings and Celebration
As we form our honorable closure for 2020 with our gratitudes, recognition of positive impacts and challenges let us each take responsibility to close this year honorable to make way for a new year. Let us each celebrate our harvests, put to rest our regrets and prepare out soil/ soul, for cultivating our creativity with the seeds of our dreams for a world that supports the good, true and beautiful for all beings.
What love are you holding in your heart today?
- Elizabeth
Thanksgiving Blessings
I am thankful for the friendships, love and nature in my life. I am thankful for all that is good, true and beautiful. I pray for the well being of all of life as I celebrate Thanksgiving in a new way.
What are you grateful for today?
Blessings…
- Elizabeth
Home is our Sanctuary…
Home is our sanctuary, our place of refuge, rest, and rejuvenation. For many now it is also a work space, school, studio, and a place to cook, organize, decorate, and garden around. Having a home and being an artist were two things I desired so much for so long I used to cry at the thought. Now I realize both are in my heart no matter where I am or what I am doing in my life - it is a way of being.
I invite you in very small personal retreats to come home to your own inner artist to create and reconnect to what has heart and meaning in this time of change. I am offering very small in person gatherings in my garden and studio, live workshops online and one-on-one sessions. To create joyfully and to count our blessings is a transformative practice.
What are you grateful for today?
-Elizabeth
Celebration of Spring
My Dear Friends,
This is the time to celebrate the fertility of the earth and our own awakening to our life dreams. We have been in an extended dream time as we cocoon and imagine a new way of being in the world when we fully emerge. We are each on our own vision quest as well as for the entire world community.
Creative play in nature are essential for my spirit, painting, gardening, writing, and singing are transformational. I made this little video to inspire you to make a flower crown to wear or gift someone you love. A flower crown is the symbol of our hallo - Kings and Queens wanted more germinate versions so they had their crowns made of gold and jewels replaced the flowers, but we get to make the real ones that celebrate our love of nature.
Tell me about what you are grateful for - what is bringing you joy right now?
- Elizabeth
Picking Joy!
Growing flowers is one of the great joys of life. As gardeners we are in direct collaboration with the natural world growing beauty. A bouquet brings joy, delight & healing.
Tell me about a beautiful bouquet you created or received as a gift - how did it make you feel?
- Elizabeth
Cultivating Love
The gardener is an artist who tends the soil with love. The sky is her canvas and the flowers are her paint.
The creation of this Beauty is art that makes the world bloom.
Each day we are invited to cultivate some goodness into bloom - what is it for you this week?
- Elizabeth
Thank You
For the nourishment of the Earth
and the blessings of this Day
May my offering be
Love, Beauty & Joy
that I cultivate
each day.
Happy Thanksgiving
- Elizabeth
Autumn is such a full, rich season…
Autumn is such a full, rich season, its beauty comes from its ripeness and maturity. It is the time of harvest, feasting, celebration, and gratitude for all the abundance. Yet in the midst of bushels of apples and gorgeous leaves - there is the deep realization that at the height of fruition we are also nearing winter. Autumn is the season of letting go, as once again there will be dormancy.
What harvest are you celebrating and what are you releasing in your inner or outer garden?
- Elizabeth
Tree Cathedral
Trees create sacred space - no wonder they are the gathering place for spiritual and indigenous communities from Druids to Keepers of the Forest in the Amazon. Trees communicate and support one another through their root systems and Mycorrhizae in the soil, as they clean the air. Today we are all invited to plant more trees, support international reforestation, buy only sustainable wood and paper products.
What can you let fall away as easily as a leaf in autumn to enrich your soul and deepen your roots?
- Elizabeth
Playing in Nature - Tree Swing
There are moments even in difficult times when we can still play and rediscover our childhood joy and freedom. This is the place of creativity, renewal and non-judgement.
Go there, laugh, and discover your true heart again and again.
When was the last time you climbed some rocks, swung up high, or made art with abandon?
-Elizabeth
Blessings all around you…
When we kneel to touch the ground as humble gardeners - weeding, planting, harvesting-we are in reverence for the Earth. Every action we take can be of love & nurture of all living beings. This is the moment & our great calling to be of service for our Earth & all of life now & in future generations.
What connects you to the blessings all around you?
-Elizabeth
Living Life in Full Bloom
Successful eye operation
Astonishment!
Each blossom seen for the first time!
We celebrate living this moment in Full Bloom!
Tell me about what beauty has astonished you?
-Elizabeth
Living Joyfully
When our inner compass is set for joy and gratitude, challenges can be perceived as temporary and appreciation can be experienced each day.
It is my creative and spiritual practice to hold joy and grief or joy and fear equally so I can move through the challenge - maintaining authenticity and vulnerability. Today I celebrate keeping my compass set on joy and creativity.
What is inner your compass set for?
-Elizabeth