WORD PAINTINGS #98 – MONSOON!!!!
7/18/20 – MONSOON CLOUDS – LLANO QUEMADO, NEW MEXICO 3 August 2020 (Llano Quemado, N.M.) 6AM – The kitchen window is open about 6 inches – very cold air is pouring in – thinking that it will only be about five weeks before there will be the first snow on Taos Mountain and Truchas Peaks. […]
WORD PAINTINGS #97 – LISTENING TO MOUNTAINS IV – NEW LIFE
HOME, HOME ON THE RANCH (LLANO QUEMADO, TRUCHAS, NEW MEXICO) 1983 – Llano Quemado, Truchas, New Mexico – The horse trailers with our six new guests arrived in late winter after the first of the year. Three were definitely with foal. We purchased many bales of hay in anticipation and when the day came, we […]
WORD PAINTINGS #96 – LISTENING TO MOUNTAINS III – AWAKENING
“HIGH COUNTRY MONDAY MORNING” It wasn’t difficult for me to adjust to life on the horse ranch. In the beginning I felt caught between two very alien planets. Santa Fe’s over the top social scene, the intense competition in a newly developing art market, trying to earn a living from making and selling paintings was […]
WORD PAINTINGS #95 – GONE TO SANCTUARY
Llano Quemado Studio this morning – finished paintings and works in progress. 3 July 2020 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) – Up at 4AM today – thinking, thinking, thinking- bad case of monkey-mind. Turned on Morning Joe – he is such a bloviator! Switched him off after five minutes. Tried to go back to sleep…nope…fixed a […]
WORD PAINTINGS #94 – LISTENING TO MOUNTAINS II
There definitely is a certain poetry to life and it is usually discovered through the distance of time. Waking up to reality, deep awareness is not for everyone. I did not choose to wake up and gratefully scotch was helping me stay numb to many events from my childhood. Debilitating panic attacks were frequent visitors. […]
WORD PAINTINGS #93 – LISTENING TO MOUNTAINS Part One
7 June 2020 – Llano Quemado, N.M. – Caught up in all the drama and chaos of these past three months – have been self-isolating since the beginning of March. Relearning how to live on my own….laundry, mopping and the damned dishes! Can’t comprehend the scope of the death from the virus and the […]
WORD PAINTINGS #92 – INTO THE GREAT UNKNOWN
Llano Quemado, New Mexico – Unable to think of much else since making the decision to go ahead and share my experience, strength and hope. Have tried to talk myself out of this, but the urge to persist is with me every day now. Perhaps there might be just one other woman out there struggling […]
WORD PAINTINGS #91 – CLOUDS FROM BOTH SIDES NOW
26 May 2020 – Llano Quemado, N.M. – Sat in the sun on the old railroad bench in front of the house this morning. A wide band of low clouds forming in the northeast over Taos Mountain and the Pecos foothills. A matching bank of clouds slowly building over the low mountains to the southeast, […]
WORD PAINTINGS #90 – REBIRTH
24 MAY 2020 – Llano Quemado, New Mexico – An old habit of mine is to give permission to start life over anytime I experience major shifts or changes. Turning 80 last year and after some major health issues, every day has been a New Beginning. The minute my eyes open, I experience a delightful […]
WORD PAINTINGS #89 – FROM DARK TO LIGHT!
21 May 2020 – Llano Quemado, New Mexico – One day it dawned on me that the way I painted (dark to light) was a metaphor for all of Life! My darkest times have usually been followed by a blissful period of “enlightenment”…a time when I breathed a sigh of relief to have run the […]
