Soul Spirit

Today is a day of celebrating the souls' spirit....A day of talking and laughing and sharing! Today, I am so aware of what this machine can and does do for me! I am blessed with a very dear friend that I have met via this machine!! We met through the written word some 2 1/2 years ago...reconnected several times...and then met in person almost a year ago...since then, my friend, my sister, my inspiration, my cheerleader, my confident has been a blessing to me. She has brought me up when I was down, was the first one that I notified when wonderful things appear to me, who shares my love of art and humor! She is a member of a tribe of strong women who continue to search their soul for their true spirit....So today, as we chatted on the phone (these calls that are suppose to be 1/2 hour...which really means 2 or 3 hours!) after getting off I feel so alive with spirit...so alive with who I am ...where I am going...what I want to accomplish and how much I have and how far I have come! This machine has given me a gift...a gift of connecting not only to others but to myself...It has given my souls' spirit a place to sing and play and be joyous. So today, I am grateful for knowing this...for feeling this, but most of all for my friend who has taught me how to believe in this. So my wish for you today would be the same joyous feeling! May you connect with your souls' spirit guided by the voice within and by the sound of support that you receive from it and from others who surround you. May you take a moment of your time and laugh , and talk, and share your souls' spirit with a friend. For today is just the beginning of your dreams...your desires and your love. Honor it!
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

Connection...

Today has been a day of connection...as I continue on this creative path. Today I finally finished 2 pieces that have been partly completed for weeks! Today, I played in a sandbox and sang silly little songs with a 2 year old! Today, I danced around the living room with glee! So today was a day of connection...So often we do not stop and think about what it is that makes us truly happy. We think that perhaps it is fame, or fortune, the "If I COULD JUST"...or "I REALLY SHOULD" are the things that will bring happiness...But when you connect to your past..your present...and glimpse into your future...you can see that the moments of true happiness are the ones that did not cost any money...did not require a lot of your time...and caused no stress getting there! The moments where you made no money and there was no crown of glory placed on your head! Connecting with your heart, with your home, with the loves of your life, with your creativity and with yourself is the freedom to happiness. So sing in your loudest voice...dance in your living room...oh heck...go out and play in a sandbox or swing on a swing...I know it will make you feel a delight of happiness from the top of your head to the tip of your toes! CONNECT to yourself...it will bring about a smile of joy that will come from your heart and go to the stars.
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

Travel...

Today is a day of Travel...within my mind...within my space...within my soul. Today, I am traveling in my creativity! The destination is connecting with me! There are times when you just have to do this...block out everything else and take your energy and put it into yourself. Today is such a day with me!! I am aware that by connecting to myself and my spirit I will be able to dream and continue on this path. I have not been alone with myself for several weeks now and this morning it is the quiet... the silence that is allowing me to hear what I have to say. Although we sometimes think that this is a selfish thing to do, I realize that it is one of the most important things that I must do! So today I travel...alone with my thoughts...alone with my dreams...alone with my journey!! My wish for you would be that you allow yourself this type of travel also....By taking the few minutes to be alone with our self we can connect to what our inner voice is telling us to do...we can connect to the gratitude that we have for this choice...we can connect to our creativity..our life..our soul. Be not afraid to take this small amount of time...the sound of your soul is sweet music and will show you a step on your winding path.
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

Reflection Friday

Today has been a day of reflection for this week. This week has been a series of family responsibilities and commitments. I have not had a great deal of time to be in my studio for that reason. At first I had a difficult time with this, causing my inner critic to come out and say...WELL, YOU SHOULD BE DOING THIS....OR YOU SHOULD BE DOING THAT! But once I listened closer I found my inner self saying...THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU SHOULD BE DOING! By slowing down, I was able to re-connect to my past thru some of these commitments and by doing that I was also connecting to my present. This caused me great depths of smiles. I learned to sing new heart songs this week, allowing myself to dabble more than drive myself with creativity. This week, I delighted in laughter and being silly. And I also, was very aware of the warmth of love that pours in to me from others, and surrounds me daily. So, when reflecting I learned that I have a really full life! An amazing life! I am surrounded by creativity everywhere I look...from nature, from silence, from silly! I was aware that birth and death are the cycles of life and I celebrated both with great love. This has been a wonderful week of reflection. My wish for you as you reflect on your week would be the same...take the time...ALWAYS take the time to remember where you came from...how far you have come...and where you still want to go. Life is an amazing journey filled with the warmth of love, new and old heart songs, connecting and re-connecting....and don't forget the silly!
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

Warmth

Today has been a day of feeling the warmth of life. I had some obligations to fill today and they took me to places that I do not ordinarily go. Today, I felt the warmth of a silence, a beauty that I do not usually see, and my quiet. Today, I was aware of the warmth of spirit...of looking inward toward a calm and peaceful place within. Today, I was aware of the warmth of love, love for those close, love for those who have passed, and love for who I am and what I do. Today, was a day of warmth, and I felt it all around me, pouring from my inside out and my outside in! Today, that warmth enveloped me in radiance. My wish for you today is that you take a few moments from your day and go within yourself in silence to feel the spirit of the warmth that love provides you. That you feel that warmth for those close to you, for those who are no longer with you, and for yourself and that you rejoice and bask in it... and feel it all around you. It is so powerful and full of beautiful energy. Today I wish your warmth.
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

Silly

Today was a day of being silly...Two sisters working together at a table toward one goal! Today was a day of remembering childhood, recalling games and playing pretend. Of hiding in closets and laundry shoots..Of playing dolls, and putting on plays! Of remembering when..and do you recall... Today there were giggles and delights in moments of past imagination and of things rapidly approaching us! Two sisters doing a project at a kitchen table...connecting to our youth...connecting to our laughter...connecting to our silly! Children are just naturally silly, and laugh at everything! But all to soon we can hear people say.."don't be so silly"..or worse "act your age"!! Today, my wish for you is that you bring back your silly!! Play...laugh...giggle...imagine...skip...doodle...sing...You'll soon see it is just as entertaining as it was when you were young!! (and your certainly going to have a good giggle!!) PUT ON YOUR SILLY!
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

Exploring

This is actually my post for Tuesday,but it was a long day and I did not get it posted yesterday!! Yesterday was a day of exploring! I take my mother (who is 81 and never did learn to drive!) to a luncheon with some friends down at the lake. I have been doing this for some 7 years now. This year I was actually looking forward to going as I was going to see someone very special to me for the first time in over a year (my mothers friend whom I consider to be my Aunt) This was a day where I was exploring my emotional connection to people, I was exploring the sights of the lake, the smooth lake glass and the warmth of the sand between my toes. This was a day of exploring the shells, and watching boats as they glided across the lake with an effortless ease. This was a day of dreaming, and believing and knowing! So my wish for all is that you have a day like this...a day that is so calm that you can feel yourself gliding with an effortless ease! Where you can feel your warmth and your love from the bottom of your toes to the top of your head. It was a beautiful day!A day where a new song rose up from within. May yours be a happy one too!
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

RE-Connecting

Today is a day of re-connecting!! I have been out of my studio for several days except for brief moments of connections. So today, I re-connect!! I am full into the paint, the pen, the paper...ideas are dancing and bouncing around in here with the heat and energy! Such a wonderful day! Today, not only am I re-connecting with myself but also with those that I love. Those that inspire me to create and be creative! I am sending off positive energy in their direction as well as my own. Today is a day of re-connecting! Of feeling my past and my present melding as one! I am smiling huge big grins today!(even though it must be 98 degrees in here!!) So that would be my wish for all who come to view today, that you too take a moment and re-connect. Re-connect with a friend, re-connect with your art and your creativity, re-connect with yourself....SMILE...deep down within you smiles! IT FEELS SO GOOD!
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

Reflection Friday...

A week went by...and then a couple days...I have been thrown off balance a bit with the
holiday, and with my husband home now, plus we had our grandson here for 3 days!! My little bit of routine has gotten out of whack! BUT I am now adjusting...have read, and caught up on sleep and now I am ready to get back in the studio!! I did reflect on Friday and I was very aware that this past week was more about reaching out and touching others than it was about me making art! In the long term as I listened to what I said to others I was aware to ride my own excitement..to be mindful of being FREE to dream and do and be and to open my heart and extend my hand....It was truly a beautiful week....and I realized how much I have grown...I hardly beat myself up at all for not creating!!!!!!!! It is a beautiful thing!! I hope your week went well and my wish for you is that you are aware that no matter what you did....It was exactly what you were suppose to be doing!
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

Helpful

Today as I was working early and asking what it was that I needed today, the word HELPFUL came into play. I wasn't aware of what that meant till later in the morning and then throughout the day, different signs appeared to me. Everyday I do my art, and I try to post my affirmation here also. Today, across the telephone wires, across the Internet and in the mail I received signs from others that all that I am doing is helpful to their creative process. So today, I am aware that not only do these affirmations help me, but they help others as well. I love the idea of loaning some of my energy from these affirmations to someone else. I am aware that by doing this I feel revitalized and as if my direction has become a little clearer. And it makes me feel so good to give with an open heart. That would be my wish for you..that you inspire someone today with your open heart. That you feel your energy become that much stronger by offering a hand to someone who needs a little shift in their energy. The reward is so great at the end of the day...it is a wonderful inner Peace that shines brightly.
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

Participating

Today has been a day of participating...for taking the day and seeing life...full with love, full of wonderful laughter..full of joy! Today I participate in the enjoyment of my life. Finding that within this time that when I freely participate in activities they lift me up and teach me so much. I am aware of the smallest of things today. An ant in a sandbox making its way across what must seem like a desert...a bee lifting sweet honey from a flower...rocks and trees that are content just to be. Today I participate in my wonderful life..free and happy..full of love and laughter. Today I make the most of it. And that would be my wish for all today. Do not forget that there are lessons to be learned from participating in your enjoyment. That with our thoughts we create our experiences. So today, participate in your life, making it full with the love and laughter that surrounds you every day.
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

Excitement

Today is a day of excitement...My little feet hit the floor running today!! Oh, I couldn't make it fast enough into the studio...I have visions of a whole series of little paintings...I have visions of submissions...I have visions and visions and visions!!!!!!!! Today I am so excited...and I am going to ride this wave joyously today! I am aware of what it is that I have to do and how to do it!! OH MY!!!! Today, as I am filled with excitement I acknowledge and honor my creativity!! And that would be my wish for all who come here today...when you feel that excitement...that connection with your creativity...get it out, get it on paper, write it down if you can't get into your studio...DON'T LOSE IT!!!!! For one moment of excitement, brings another and then another and then another!! AND IT FEELS SO GOOD! As for me...I am off to the paint..These creative thoughts are waiting to be acknowledged!
Artfully Yours,
Pattie