Higher Ground - Playing For Change

Creative Waves

I'm crazy creative ....ideas one after another.I love it ! But nothang else gets done.I feel bad I'm not painting paintings or sweeping the dog hair or ....but what to do ? Push it away? I wish I could get paid for this time.... store it away and bring it out anytime I wanted. This is why folks should be tipping the artist.I give my art away when all is said and done.Hard to get folks to part with more than a $20.bill.And I can't turn it away.
Here I posted a pair of earrings I just came up with. Down to no money and low on materials....so I went to my scraps ...bits and pieces of my colored roofing felt.No perfection here .No patterns just wing it and let it fly. and I like em.They have an earthy ceramic old New Orleans feel.....very un-perfect.But I think people are over that anyways ... hear it all the time on the square.

Here also is my daily pelican picture.I now celebrate every sea bird I see alive free in this moment.This is all we really have anyways.Please love what is in front of you and send some of your healing energy love to our Gulf of Mexico.

We Need Birds

I've been in my wild creative place lately.Ideas constantly zooming round and through my mind.This happens after the shock wears down. It took me one full year after hurricane Katrina for it to kick in ...one full year of constant crying.This time I quickly noticed the ptsd signs.I think that helped moved me alone this process.
I have also noticed all through my life when I'm in the mist of my own inner hurricanes it is the birds that snap me out of it...calm me down...help me get back in touch with the sweetest of life and back to my center back to some inner peace.

And I naturally go to my hands and colors that I can touch.... my healers my medicine.My art comes from that place.....my heart and soul .In fact I do much better if I don't think about it .Like this little bird. I was on the phone talking and I just started cutting.The shapes ....birds ,hearts and rectangles.And then they fell together just like that and said ,"Well Look at That!"Sweet! On the back I wrote a quote by Mother Teresa ,"Peace begins with a smile."Birds help me do just those things.
The Earth needs the birds....

why is when we are about to lose something we realize just how much we truly love it ? But now look I knew I loved the GUlf ...the beach...but my feelings of love is comming to a head the closer this monster comes to my shore.I can understand how it feels when your homeland is being attacked. I am ready to do battle....peaceswirl me!
So I went to NOLA to set out on the square but it was raining...so I went to the Aquarium of Americas . I forgot all about the worries and just got lost in all the mystery and wonder there.On the home I took the back road home old Highway 90 through the Louisiana swamps then down the MS coast. I stopped on Henderson Point in Pass Christian,MS.A beautiful hot sun sunny day and I was the only one there as far as I could see.Me and nature !So I walked it like it would be my last. I even let go for awhile...like always...feeling the oneness with nature.
On down the beach I saw more orange booms here and there .And did I say how strange the vibe is ?
This morning around 9 am I gave my son a ride to work at The Beau Rivage in Biloxi.Again very few people anywhere and a prefect beautiful summer morning.But it is like the quiet before the storm when everyone has evacuated and I'm waiting for the storm .People are quiet in the stores ....not like before a hurricane when everyone is talking to everyone.There are city workers and others here and there but something is not right here.
The rest of the day I decided to try to forget it all and concentrate on my art. Oh the creative ideas were a flying.Love it when that happens.Music playing loud.The colors a flowing.Then just when I thought I would go to bed....one quick check in on the news..........
Yep ! the oil is right off shore now.

The Creative Click !

Emotions ...tears ....anger...heart touching...starts swirling swirling then ...click! That is when and where the paint starts flowing~~~then the art high.Oh if I could just stay there ....painting and painting connecting with that higher energy...because it is those times when I lose myself and let that source come through that I love ....that connection...letting it create through me instead of me trying to control ....anything.....just let go ~~~let it go ~~~ let go ~~~

Beach walk

So I heard the oil has come ashore in Mississippi last night.So this evening I took a sunset walk on Ocean Springs front beach.Walking the beach watching the sunset has always been one of my favorite things to do.Always I would talk with GOD and just let worries wash over me like the waves.But tonight it was sad .LIke going to a funeral.As I walked down the beach I heard drums.Sounded good to me because I knew they were praying for The Gulf also.The colors in the sky beautiful shades of pinks and orange.Then there it was in the pink clouds ....a huge dolphin. Made me so sad to think of all these beautiful wonderful creatures we will lose.Then I passed a young mother playing in the sand with her baby girl and felt very sad for all the children who will miss this ...for my own first granddaughter on her way .Then there were some small children running and playing in the water's edge so happy and carefree.This is one place all children and dogs love love to be ....to feel free and happy.I picked up a few shells thinking this could be the last time I will be able to .Just another one of my favorite things to do.I have walked the beaches with all my loved ones ....talking sharing and finding treasures. Almost to my car and it was getting dark ....looked like a father and two young sons wading in the water with a flounder light and bucket.I've done it many times .It is like magic out there on a hot summer night seeing all the sea life running by your feet.On the way home I talked to my youngest son. He is so very sad and concerned....asking me all kinds of questions he knew I or anyone had any answers for.Pretty scary really.Is this the end of our time on our beautiful GUlf? Will they really be able to stop this leak? What will happen if they can't? so many questions so much disgust over politicians and people who were supposed to be in charge .....In this day in age how could anyone take this kind of risk.There are people crying what about the jobs? Well I say What about our Earth?our Home? what about our food ? our fish ? Our Lives?
Okay enough enough....somehow I need to try to get some sleep so I can make more art .