Email Jun 29, 2025
In meditation I went to the unknown.
It was full of gigantic pink flowers.
Seriously?
I thought –
This is too predictable and likely for me,
so I disappeared the flowers.
Which left emptiness.
So I split myself in half
and in half again,
and continued splitting each me in half
until I was spread out all over the emptiness.
and I loved how that felt.
Yet now,
I also wonder,
how I would have felt
had I immersed myself
in the giant pink flowers
instead.
Dear Friends,
I am at the Roseburg Summer Arts Festival with poison oak on my arms and legs.
Is this revenge for clearing out a bunch of poison oak on my mountain property two weeks ago?
I have never been negatively affected by poison oak before,
but was that because I always left it alone,
having been taught it is a protector of the forest?
I have to wonder about that.
Oh well,
It's all good,
Because now I know what having a poison oak rash feels like.
You're welcome, Jessica ( my daughter who gets poison oak way too easily).
Here's what's coming up in my art show schedule …
June 29 Today is the last day at the Umpqua Valley Summer Art Festival in Roseburg, OR
July 12&13 I will be showing at the Bend Summer Festival in Bend, OR
July 19 I will be showing at the Gresham Festival of Arts in Gresham, OR
August 3 I will have my art booth set up at the Wilsonville Festival of Music at Charbonneau in Wilsonville, OR