Imagining a New World
Remember the nursery song about old MacDonald and his farm? For some reason every time I watch the news or read a headline, that song comes to mind. Here a crisis, there a crisis, everywhere a crisis,...
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Blue Moon Dreaming by Claire Perkinsaka ArtfulAlchemist on Polyvorehttp://www.polyvore.com/blue_moon_dreaming/set?id=57730421 There are various takes on exactly what constitutes a Blue Moon. Some say...
View ArticleSeptember!
I love September! It makes me feel giddy inside, open to possibilities, ready for something new. It’s that childlike anticipation of a new school year: brand new clothes, fresh notebooks and pencils,...
View ArticleTo Weep For the World
To Weep For the World, digital collage by Claire Perkins aka ArtfulAlchemist on Polyvore. There are days when my heart weeps for the world, and today is one of them. It began with my thoughts about...
View ArticleFalling Apart is Never the End
It’s only the beginning . . . Good Friday. It’s the day that it all falls apart. The day that everything you believed in, understood, counted on, loved dies. The day after which NOTHING will ever be...
View ArticleMay Your SOUL Burn Through Your SHOULDS
My wonderful friend and awakening coach, Aliza Bloom Robinson, triggered this vision in my mind during a guided meditation last week. As I drew the image in my journal, it occurred to me that the...
View Articlegenesis
Art: “Nesting” created by Claire Perkins, aka Artful Alchemist, on Polyvore.com (I lay no claim to the original images used to compose this digital collage) genesis by Claire M. Perkins behold! dawn’s...
View ArticleWhere’s Your Web Anchored?
“Web of Love” created by Claire Perkins, aka ArtfulAlchemist on Polyvore.com On my morning walk, I noticed a spider had built its web from the back bumper of a parked pickup truck to the asphalt of the...
View ArticleHow to Walk the Plank
Aaaaar Matey, it be International Talk Like a Pirate Day today. How will YOU celebrate? I celebrated by singing a few silly verses of “What Would You Do with a Drunken Sailor”, a cappella, in front of...
View ArticlePeace in the Eye of the Storm
Art: Transcending the Storm created by Claire Perkins aka Artful Alchemist on Polyvore. As I pulled on my “Be Peace” T-shirt this morning in celebration of the International Day of Peace, I was...
View ArticleThe Gift of Lemons
I began my morning bike ride with a somewhat heavy heart. Some big, unexpected changes had just dropped into my life. While I knew that ultimately these changes would be for my good, I couldn’t help...
View ArticleThe New Will Emerge
The new will emerge Despite your hanging on The new will emerge Already, bright green passion Crowds and pulses around you Your withered leather hardens While cobwebs drape Like whiskers on your...
View ArticleAs Simple as Flying a Kite
As Simple as Flying a Kite, created on Polyvore.com. Inspired by this lovely article: An Invitation: Practicing Wonder, by Dawna Markova I am learning not to fear chaos, but to see it as the raw...
View ArticleBloom as only YOU can Bloom!
The art prompt in the online art class I’m taking was to find a famous still life and paint your own copy of it, then play with digitizing and embellishing your painting. Okay. Time for the Inner...
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Art: “Nesting” created by Claire Perkins, aka Artful Alchemist, on Polyvore.com (I lay no claim to the original images used to compose this digital collage) genesis by Claire M. Perkins behold! dawn’s...
View ArticleWhere’s Your Web Anchored?
On my morning walk, I noticed a spider had built its web from the back bumper of a parked pickup truck to the asphalt of the street below. That spider’s gonna be mighty disappointed when that truck...
View ArticleHow to Walk the Plank
Aaaaar Matey, it be International Talk Like a Pirate Day today. How will YOU celebrate? I celebrated by singing a few silly verses of “What Would You Do with a Drunken Sailor”, a cappella, in front of...
View ArticleSoulCollage® – Council Suit – Old Programming
SoulCollage® – Council Suit – Old Programming I am the code that holds the old forms in place I am the programming of greed and mistrust I am the paradigm of us and them I am the energy of fear
View ArticleBecoming the Dream
In a marvelous example of synchronicity (or how life rhymes), I am working on my new book, Fallen from the Dreaming Tree, this morning. I have just been inspired to write that my protagonist “weaves a...
View ArticleNew Life Pushes Up
Political upheaval, economic uncertainty, bigotry, angry rhetoric. And it’s hotter than hell outside. It all weighs heavily on me as I drive to my weekly “Mindfulness in Art” class. “Today we’ll go a...
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