bringing alive

bringing alive

What does it feel like to let yourself roar? Really roar, and feel the fierce knowingness that you carry in your bones come up and out? My experience has been that it feels like truth. Truth telling. Of opening up to a channel of clarity and strength that comes from...
Lusciously & Soulfully: Mary Donlan

Lusciously & Soulfully: Mary Donlan

Encountering Mary Donlan’s art happened through serendipity. I was checking out the bulletin board at an art supply store in Nanaimo, BC when her bright art business cards grabbed my eye. Mary is an artist who is greatly drawn to abstract art and to gardening....
Divine Dissatisfaction

Divine Dissatisfaction

Rain, in sheets, straight down, no wind. A deluge, but silent and soft. Then turning into a shimmering drizzle, descending so slowly it almost seemed suspended. Moments of sweet, hot sun so bright I put my sunglasses on, except when the clouds moved in front, and the...
Lusciously & Soulfully: Rachel Dhawan

Lusciously & Soulfully: Rachel Dhawan

A friend of a friend, I first met Rachel over 10 years ago, when I was living in, then visiting Montreal often. Her bubbly vivacious spirit and impeccable sense of style were the first things I noticed about her. It took longer to discover that she was a...
Lusciously & Soulfully: Jenna Douglass

Lusciously & Soulfully: Jenna Douglass

I love moments of connection and synchronicity. I also love fun online art challenges. So when Papirmass (a phenomenal visual arts/literary art subscription partnership) teamed up with Brown Paper Bag, a blog celebrating beautiful and clever illustration to run a...