The Hands That Got Poor Albrecht Dürer Through Art School Artist/Teacher Barbara Garro says, Like other art lovers, THE PRAYING HANDS give me an image that can occupy my mind for a reverie of time. How many times have you wondered why THE PRAYING HANDS captivate so completely? You must have noticed— 1. The crooked [...]
Liber Novis, written before 1930 and never published until 2009 spans several years and provides an understanding of the foundational beginnings of the personality analysis and other scholarly work, especially the individuation process. If that were all that would be plenty. But Jung also speaks out loud of his own personal psychoanalysis process, his own [...]
Went to maximum security prison yesterday for weekly group. Only there for about 3 hours, but time seemed irrelevant. What was relevant, was the insight, wisdom and life experience shared by those present for the meditation class. Issue of anger, grief, revenge and killing came to surface and how people have dealt with those feelings [...]
I find fascinating interactions, friendships, and purposeful collaborations between two artists. You probably are familiar with the competitive friendship between Matisse and Picasso. Are you also, like me, curious about the nine-week Studio of the South creative collaboration between Gauguin and van Gogh? Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) and Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) were only five years [...]
For many of you this article will be too provocative, too disturbing and simply unpopular. For the faint of hearts, stop reading now. Beginning with the infamous 2008 indictment of Casey Anthony for the homicide of her beautiful toddler to the recent South Florida tragedies including the parents that brutally beat their three year-old child [...]
Encounters with the past in the boundless unknown… The Sorcerer’s Dream is a true story of my initiation into the Native American tradition of sorcery. During my initiation one of the steps was to take magic mushrooms in a dreaming ceremony. The mushroom is the outward appearance of the entity and I was fortuned to [...]
… to Thrive in Crisis Now that I have entered my fourth decade of life, I feel I’ve finally “arrived.” I know that at times, I am a hypocrite and half of what I say is comprised of the same mantras I’ve repeated to myself for decades. However, these very “clichés” are of the stuff [...]
I was working on the next installment in the series that started with What I wanted in a Husband and what I Got and realized that Valentine’s Day was right around the corner and this year is a special year ~ after 45 years together, he is buying me a present for Valentine’s Day. When [...]
They say cats have nine lives. I wish that were true, but the facts contradict such myths. Everything dies, including the felines, dogs and other creatures we choose to care for and have in our lives. Most animals tend to have a shorter life span than humans, thereby increasing the chances that our beloved friend [...]
I know and see so many other ladies in my position. Women who smile while praying the dryer didn’t take the stretch out of her jeans, who get dressed in a room absent of mirrors and lock every door for fear of someone witnessing her sans clothes. The women who make love in darkness and shirts because they’re afraid to be seen by their partners
