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On Creativity

Creativity is not a straight process. Sometimes when I wake in the morning, I listen and quiet my mind, and answers suddenly come to me. Quietly exploring and finding my voice, I created hundreds—n...

Thoughts on Beauty

With the pieces kept torn and tattered, the better the piece became when the challenge was embraced to improve it. To deconstruct the whole, pick up the pieces, and put them together again, is to t...

Embracing the Creative Journey

The things we live with shape our lives. To deconstruct the whole, pick up the pieces, and put them together again, is to take a leap of faith—to believe in redemption and understand that risking f...

Why I Paint Outside

Driving down the newly opened faster toll route to the beach, I sang, sunroof open, at the top of my lungs to Los Lonely Boys Heaven and asked myself "how much farther is heaven?" With my newly pu...

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