Happy New Calender Flip

Summer Solstice came & went, bringing with the changing balance of sunlight enormous changes in my personal life...

A New Year, and a new diary, now confront me... I have no idea how I shall create the life I need... a new page, a clean slate, a virgin canvas, are all intimidating...

What if I make a mistake? What if I'm not as competent as I need to be? What if nobody understands what I create?

Art reflects life... and so I must create art, despite my fears, in order to discover visual metaphors... and symbols representing elements of daily life... These are as signposts, for travelers in unfamiliar territory...

Here's to a New Year of high creativity, of great illumination, and new vision.
Here's to a New Year of innovation, and of wonder... of prolific ideas, and deep insights...

As you mark the first page of your 2015, I wish you much joy and kindness in the year to come.

Winter Solstice Eve - Marigold reflects on the Mystical Mirror

Now that humans exchange images and messages instantaneously, it wouldn't surprise me if traditional faces of Gods and Goddesses might soon merge within in collective human consciousness... One living life-force could become the new way of perceiving Nature's intelligence...

Such a change may, in this time of ecological uncertainty, be welcome... if we continue to honour various aspects of deity, however you experience it, at different times of the year appropriately....

The apparent mirror of opposite seasons and times of day via the internet, facilitates a broader view of the Planet... and celebrating daylight hours at solstice time is all about celebrating life, really...  And honouring the elements... The need for the balance of the sun's warmth, clean air, water and food remain...

unchanged...

Wishing you and your loved ones a blessed solstice, on the longest night, or day of the year.
May we, the world community, celebrate together, in peace.

A Brilliant Summer Solstice to You

Summer Solstice and time once more to do a bit of a personal review.... 
... I've achieved a lot this year... and I feel pretty pleased with the way things are going... of course, there is always room for improvement. It seems to me, that the more encouragement I get, the easier it is to shine brightly. Well, after all, that's what Marigolds do, is it not?

But not only Marigolds... everyone can shine, and everyone has something of value to contribute to the world... It seems tragic not to shine for fear of being cut down by criticism...

So, I would like to see people being kind.... actively encouraging each other to shine - to reach further and glow brighter.... It's not only for ourselves that we need to beam out our brightness, but it is for the world, which can't be the same without every single individual.... 

Every single flower makes a beautiful garden.


Wishing you a splendid Solstice, and I'm looking forward to basking in your brilliant illumination!