New Year, New Views
Get away…. leave the computer, leave your chores, explore and air out.
Burn Baby Burn
Burn Baby Burn Burnout is nature’s way of telling you, you’ve been going through the motions your soul has departed; you’re a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system. Sam Keen, Fire in the Belly: On Being a…
Cracked, Reflections of Imperfection
Raw From the Road, August 15, 2018 Cracked, Reflections of Imperfections It’s those bare, unguarded moment that the viewer is invited into in these evocative photos. The intimacy is compelling, irresistible. Those small moments reverberate inside. Not small at all. The very substance of life. Excerpted from the foreword written by…
What’s Your Story?
What’s Your Story? It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.Patrick Rothfuss Magic, Resin and Acrylic Paint, from the book, Endurance We all have a story because we all…
Salon Chair Diaries, Country Roads
Raw From The Road, May 21, 2018 Salon Chair Diaries Yet, it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity. Thomas…
Beauty and Wisdom, Revisited
Raw from the Road, May 10, 2018 Beauty and Wisdom, Revisited My grandmother was a powerhouse of a woman and southern to her core. She was small in stature but, she was a giant. Every person she met on her journey was blessed and she was my biggest cheerleader…
Trying Out
Trying Out We regret to tell you that your work was not among those selected by the juror. Yesterday’s Email Rejection can disappoint you, depress you and may even stop you in your tracks… learn not to take rejection so personally… if you’re honest with yourself and believe in…
Life Plans
Life Plans, Raw From The Road, March 7, 2018 Life Plans Gather up your telegrams Your faded pictures, best laid plans Books and postcards, 45’s Every sunset in the sky Carry with you maps and string, flashlights Friends who make you sing And stars to help you find your…
Strong Foundations
Going home after 40 years.
Roads
Raw from the Road, January 24, 2018 Roads The drive toward Life is protective, thoughtful, vulnerable, and invested in immaculate love. It is this last that marks the difference between a wise heart muddy with real life experiences in the trenches and a dry heart that functions on rote concepts…
Things ARE Looking Up
Raw From The Road, November 16, 2017 Things ARE Looking Up Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. Stephen Hawking On a recent trip to Europe…
I am Fashion
Raw from the Road, August 31, 2017 My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. Maya Angelou You may be wondering what in the hell does that mean? I…
Ashes to Ashes
Raw from the Road, July 25, 2017 Ashes to Ashes Sometimes you have to burn yourself to the ground before you can rise like a phoenix from the ashes. Jens Lekman I remember going to see Mt. St. Helens the first time when I was living in Portland, Oregon. That…
Public Speaking
Raw From The Road, June 28, 2017 Public Speaking Run from what’s comfortable. Forget Safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad. Rumi Live TV Interview with Jeanmarie Bassior on L.A. Talk…
Feeling Groovy
Raw From The Road, June 12, 2017 Feeling Groovy Slow down, you’re movin’ too fast You got to make the morning last… Simon and Garfunkel It seems only fitting to quote a Simon and Garfunkel song about New York since I have just returned from a wonderful…
Constructive Criticism
Raw From The Road, May 31, 2017 Constructive Criticism Photo by Skye Amber Poet I like constructive criticism from smart people. Prince How I hated these two words when I was younger. No one could tell me what to do or how to do it better. Nope….
‘Now’ Trending
Raw from the Road, May 23, 2017 Now Trending The need for an empty space, a pause, is something we have all felt in our bones; it’s the rest in a piece of music that gives it resonance and shape. Pico Iyer Do you notice how…
A Day Off
Raw From The Road, May 16, 2017 A Day Off You are like this cup; you are full of ideas. You come and ask for teaching, but your cup is full; I can’t put anything in. Before I can teach you, you’ll have to empty your cup. Master Ryutan…
All Over The Place
Raw from the Road, May 9, 2017 All Over The Place We adore chaos because we love to produce order. M. C. Escher All over the place. Yep that’s me. I’m all over the place. And today, I am embracing my all over the…
Nothing To Defend
Raw From The Road, May 4, 2017 Nothing to Defend When all one requires is that perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite. Stephen Chbosky (Excerpted from a previous blog entry, 2013) I’m learning that I am just the vessel in which these things flow through…
Into The Woods
Raw From The Road, April 26, 2017 Into the Woods I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, they will meet with a success unexpected in common…
The Wow Factor
Raw from the Road, April 20, 2017 (Excerpt, March 13, 2013 blog entry) The Wow Factor A person who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that their happiness lies outside them, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within them. Soren Kierkegaard I…
Mist Trees
Raw from the Road, April, 17, 2017 Mist Trees I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life – all mystery and magic. Harry Houdini The mist is so alluring. It’s forbidding… yet so inviting. When I first…
Guadalupe Cross
Raw from the Road, April 15, 2017 (Las Cruces) Guadalupe Cross The English verb to cross arises from the noun c. 1200, first in the sense “to make the sign of the cross”; the generic meaning “to intersect” develops in the 15th century. The…
Not One More
Raw from the Road, Las Cruces, April 13, 2017 Don’t Cry Mama Don’t cry mama It aint so bad Come a little closer I can’t see you I know you don’t like to come here much You prefer the cemetery The proper burial ground But you know my soul is…
Straight No Chaser
Raw From The Road, Las Cruces, April 14, 2017 Straight No Chaser I never knew what hit me. Like a shooting star You came out of nowhere. You and me, on the same path, Traveling in the same direction. I was always a little ahead of you. You trailed for…
The Boardwalk
Raw from the Road, April 8, 2017 The Boardwalk Part of the elasticity that you need, in order to continue to try to create, is the foregone conclusion that not all of it is going to be fabulously successful. But it’s all going to be part of a long…
Topanga
Raw from the Road, April 7, 2017 Topanga Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. Marilyn Monroe No. 5 This self-portrait was taken at Topanga State Beach, CA and it’s from the “Topanga” series in the typology, ‘Deconstruction’….
St. Monica
Raw From The Road, April 6, 2017 St. Monica It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires. Clarissa Pinkola Estes No. 4 I made this self-portrait in Santa…
I Sea
Raw From The Road, April 5, 2017 I Sea I come to the sea to breathe. *Mary Anne Radmacher No. 3 I made this self-portrait in Cannon Beach, Oregon. “Cannon Beach” is a series in the typology, Deconstruction. In winter, while on a 3 week vision quest in…