It wasn’t until my diagnosis of breast cancer that Mary really took a hold of me and I began to paint the images of the Divine Mother which appeared in my mind’s eye. You have to understand how odd her appearances were at first, because in my religious background Mary did not play a significant...Read More

Revisiting the Self Through Photos: In a recent mandala class, we all revisited our ideas of ourselves by including old photos in our mandalas. We started with a photo of ourselves as a child and we all included the photo in a mandala. To the left is me at three, blooming out of a flower....Read More

The Final Project: At the end of our last mandala class for the spring, The Delight of Watercolor Mandalas, some of the class met at the beach to create a beach mandala. We all brought flowers, leaves and natural objects to create an impermanent mandala which would be washed away by the tide. The Flower...Read More

  We saw The Monuments Men movie the other night and loved it, especially the story about the safe return of the stolen Bruges Madonna to the Church of Our Lady in Bruges, Belgium at the end of World War II. What a story! What an influence that Madonna had on me. (And I do...Read More

Magic and Messages Everywhere My husband and I took a recent trip to LA to see some art and said, “Let’s have a magical trip and look for magic and messages everywhere!” When we arrived we parked next to a car with a Flower of Life symbol on its back window. Several of us in...Read More

  We are going to display and give away the Circles of Love our mandala classes have created. They were originally made with the intention of projecting love, light, peace and healing to the friends and families of New Town, Connecticut. That intention has grown and we now make and give the Circles of Love...Read More

“Let’s make a Grand Sextile Mandala on the beach,” I emailed mandala-making friends. They showed up with flowers, herbs and shells on July 29, 2013 at 12:12 PM. After a short ceremony, declaring our intention of expansion of divine consciousness in our own lives and on the planet with the mandala, we began. I had...Read More

When a student sent me an email about the Grand Sextile planetary alignment on July 29, 2013, I got a message from my spirit guides to participate and to invite others to participate with me. This event has very positive, harmonious and beautiful aspects which we can participate in if we choose. It will be...Read More

Allow Me To Introduce Myself! She would introduce herself if she could. This is Zelda, a blue jay who has captured our hearts. She has trained us to feed her peanuts, waiting patiently every morning at our back door for one, or two or three!  She takes the peanuts from our hands and, when she...Read More

    On the last day of the Watercolor Flower Mandala class everyone brought fresh flowers and foliage and we made a big flower mandala on the floor and added our individual “seeds” to it. We made and painted seeds of ourselves to exchange with each other like gardeners do with their seeds and bulbs....Read More