Bow To You

Whatever challenged you today may be a light in the dark one day.

Hope lives in the darkest of places and love always shows it's light. There is a divine spark within each of us located in the heart chakra....

Namaste!

Sunday In The Woods

It was an overcast day and I went out purposely to take some 'gloomy' shots, but all that changed. The sun broke through and it turned from cold to humidy warm...not what I was prepared for. Then once again, the sky filled with clouds, rain began to spit and cool temps descended. The weather didn't know what to do, much like how my spirit's been feeling these past few days.

I managed to shoot some photos regardless of the changing conditions. I was afforded a good chunk of quality time to read some Thoreau too_____outside, which is always a nice feeling.

Night set in quickly. Darkness arrived. I knew it was time to leave.

Wing

 

 

2016

 

Broken wings fly again

Year renewed

Air filled with promise

Mend. Fly. Soar!

 

 

Mystique of Lapis Lazuli

Wearing my Lapis Lazuli necklace and earings, I thought it would be interesting to investigate this stone. I've never paid much attention to the mystical meaning of stones, but found it quite fascinating. On one occasion I must admit I was guilty of buying a pair of black onyx earings when told they would ward off negativity, an energy I try to remove from my space. Perhaps it's psychological, but if the ancient Egyptians believed it...hmmm.

Lapis lazuli is an ancient gem, and as such, has a storied history. Egyptian cultures made a practice of burying a lapis lazuli scarab with their dead, and believed it to offer protection. The very earliest cultures valued lapis lazuli more highly than gold. Greeks spoke of an ancient sapphire which was included with gold, and this was unmistakenly lapis. Some believed that dreaming of lapis would foretell love that would be forever faithful.
When working or meditating with Lapis Lazuli, it is thought that it can bring matters more clearly to the mind. It is one of the most powerful stones and should be used with care. Wearing Lapis can help you to become a channel. Ancient Egyptians used it as a symbol of Truth.

Lapis Lazuli is also said to heal. I desperately needed some healing after yesterdays toxic experience with fiddleheads! It is used with other stones when parts of the body need to be purified and cleansed and should be only used by a healer. Lapis supposedly has high intensity and can open many of the chakra centres. This must be done only with love in the heart and comprehension in the mind and wisdom in soul.





The colour photos show you the blue stone. I felt they were more dramatic in black and white.

Music Connect

Guelph is filled with so many talented artists - painters, sculptors, musicians, dancers, film makers, playwrights, jazz artists, poets....the list goes on. It's lovely living in a city rich in culture and because the city is small everyone seems to know each other which adds to the warmth of attending the different venues.

One of our famous talents is Jeff Bird, a local musician who has been associated with the "Cowboy Junkies" for over 18 years and is part of music history in the city. Hearing him play many times, he just gets better!

Trinity Revisited is an album and a film by Cowboy Junkies, released on October 16, 2007 - a 20th anniversary edition of their most famous album, The Trinity Session. The new album was recorded in the fall of 2006 at Toronto's Church of the Holy Trinity. Guest musicians on the album include Natalie Merchant, Ryan Adams and Vic Chesnutt, as well as Jeff Bird, - a session musician who has appeared on virtually every Cowboy Junkies album. Visit and listen to more of Jeff's music at MySpace.

Jeff is seen playing the violin, mondolin and guitar.

Jeff playing harmonica, Margo singing.
Church of Our Lady Immaculate,Guelph ON

Margo sings "Sweet Jane" with a style all her own.

Grotesque Stillness - From the SPoA archives. First pubished January, 2012

CURRENT EXHIBITION @ SPERONE WESTWATER - NEW YORK

Marble Sculpture from 350 B.C. to last week

12 January 2012 through 25 February 2012

A Grotesque Stillness Flirts With Flamboyance

IMAGES:Sperone Westwater, New York

“Marble Sculpture From 350 B.C. to Last Week” at Sperone Westwater includes, from left, “Purity” (2008-11), by Barry X Ball, and older works like the Ionian Greek grave relief, center, from the fourth century B.C., and the late-17th-century bust of a man with a wig.

The tendency of commercial galleries to mount exhibitions of historical material is pushed to rewardingly crazed extremes by the latest offerings at Sperone Westwater. This blue-chip gallery, previously located in SoHo and then Chelsea, has crammed two lavish exhibitions into the four floors of available display space in the narrow, overly hygienic building on the Bowery — commissioned from the British starchitect Norman Foster — to which it moved in 2010.

"The marble show, a wicked romp through a couple of millennia of objects, figures and portrait busts, is riddled with alternating intimations of decadence and purity, the Classical and the grotesque."

FOR MORE INFORMATION CHECK OUT SPERONE WESTWATER HERE.

RESOURCE: NEW YORK TIMES/ART