My breath was taken away by the words of Arlene Goldbard! She clearly identifies the power of the arts to develop awareness, imagination and empathy.
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Category Archives: spirituality Initiate powerful patterns in your life!….Have you recognized and then recreated patterns in your own life? When you recognize patterns in your life, are they constructive or destructive to thinking outside of the box? How do you provide fertile ground for being creative? show 5 comments 
Well let’s see if this time my comment works. Last one I typed did not fly. So patterns are essential to building ones life. Early morning is generally when I say my prayers setting up the focus of being of service to my self and other s for the day. My prayers open me up sprititually, mentally and creatively to go forward in the best way possible. Night time is when I try to reflect on what was successful and what was not. Then I try to reevaluate so that I can change what did not work. This applies to family friends and students and my own art work.
I too love the early morning. That is when I say my prayers. They are my key to unlocking my better side both spritiually and mentally. the creative of course comes right after that. Other wise I am not as patterned or organized as I would like to be. Each day though I am more practiced at striving to do it and I find that I have been much more productive this year than other years. I just finished two small paintings that I began last year. I am not any closer to getting my studio set up. This has been a harsh winter on many levels but I have not stopped the planning or the organizing for the studio. So patterns and habits are essential as long as we continue to assess their validity to our current life situations. 
Nina, it is amazing that this phenomena happens just like this on a daily basis, and it never gets old ! Any ideas about organizing your life , especially in a new environmwnt? Any discoveries, lately? 
YES! Thank you! I love the vigils from the dark to light! Thank you!
YES! Thank you! I love the vigils from the dark to light! Thank you!  Here we sit , on the precipice of a new year…. I choose to spend the day in reflection of last year and preparing to embrace 2011. I reflect on seven chosen areas of my life , look at my journey last year and where I could go with them this year. … show 3 comments 
I love that photo of you, Beth. And as always your words give me alot to think about. Thanks, Mom 
greetings I fully agree. Creating art creates energy. That’s a secret most people don’t realize. I gain energy. I gain purpose.
I clean, contemplate and consider the last moments of my ending year doing exactly what I want:: dreaming, digesting my dreams and directing degrees of movement large and small into the gratefulness that I AM and that we share together. All kinds of Blessings for 2011 — With Great Love, ng show 4 comments
That quote from Hebrews has been a favorite of mine for a long time. I find it to be thought-provoking. I am enjoying all your paintings. Mom 
David Brooks, columnist for the New York Times, spelled out something during an interview with Charlie Rose which sounded so familiar to me, yet, was giving it a new frame to understand. For years, I practiced the process of intensely working on a painting, and then step away to create some space, often, letting it sit over night. It is our unconscious that gets to work when we relax after an intense, conscious effort. David Brooks said: “You have to feed the unconscious”. It is this wonderful interplay between conscious effort and the unconscious that creates art. Sounds old, yet new.
Slow down and observe the process, is right! 
This reminded me to slow down this morning. That is quite an accomplishment considering the tenor of the last 4 weeks. thank you.  What I did rediscover, as I reflected, is that I must create! It is as necessary to me as eating and sleeping. It is my way of sharing what is not not seen: of digging away at what is not understood; of researching using visual tools and gut level intuition. Why is this so important to me?… show 2 comments
Well said…onward
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Nina - Well. More fuel for the fire. Now we have to ALL in our own everyday ways take this preaching to the choir and spread the Word to those outside the choir. Mindful that is our own Artistic Motions and beliefs that “spread the Word”. Thanks, Beth.