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Artful Alchemist: June 2010

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View My Art on Polyvore. Monday, June 28, 2010. I'm Gonna Color My World Happy. One of the main streets leading into my neighborhood is undergoing repair. For the last two or three years, potholes have multiplied in this roadway, opening up after every heavy rain. Every now and then, the road crews would come through and fill the potholes with new asphalt, but with the very next rain those same potholes would open back up and new ones would appear. Tuesday, June 8, 2010. It's amazing what 30 minutes in m...

Artful Alchemist: September 2010

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View My Art on Polyvore. Monday, September 6, 2010. What the Heck is Artful Alchemy? Mee] (noun) the miraculous power of transmuting something common into something precious (e.g. turning lead into gold). L] (adjective) done with or characterized by art or skill. Artful Alchemy is about transforming a common life into your golden life through skillfully facilitated art practices. But how to tune out or bypass the dominant, left-brain voices of the Ego and the Critic? Stop speaking their language. Their l...

Artful Alchemist: Imagining a New World

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View My Art on Polyvore. Monday, August 29, 2011. Imagining a New World. Remember the nursery song about old MacDonald and his farm? For some reason every time I watch the news or read a headline, that song comes to mind. Here a crisis, there a crisis, everywhere a crisis, crisis. Eee Eye Eee Eye Oh! But here's the good news. According to Barbara Marx Hubbard. Becoming Universal by Artful Alchemist on Polyvore. The caterpillar, thinking it's dying, fights against these imaginal cells. But the imagina...

Artful Alchemist: May 2011

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View My Art on Polyvore. Tuesday, May 3, 2011. Sung to the tune of "The Way It Is" by Bruce Hornsby. And inspired by the cow-costumed milk shoplifter. The Ballad of Jonathan Payton. Parody by Claire Perkins). I'm down in the WalMart wasting time. Standing in the checkout line. My God, I hate this store). When a man in a cow suit strolls on by. Twenty-six milk jugs and a gleam in his eye. Just for fun he walks right out the door. Well that's just the way it is. Some cows are very strange. He said, Look.

Artful Alchemist: January 2011

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View My Art on Polyvore. Sunday, January 30, 2011. To me, the message of this dream is so clear. The monkeys are the monkey-mind - all that chatter, inner critic, false beliefs, distractions. It is clear that I'm not to feed them. (In waking life, I feed them all too often.) The lions represent my authentic inner power (connections to the goddess Sekhmet. And also to the Alsan. What inner power do you choose to feed? And how do you tame the monkey-mind? Thursday, January 27, 2011. Vacationing on the Moon.