The Future Is a Distant Star, paper collage, 2025 Be attentive to the stirrings of your soul. Learn how to do the things you love for their own sake. Because they give you joy, because they’re inherently meaningful and fill you with a sense of purpose. We’re not conditioned to behave this way. We’re conditioned…

I envision the feminine archetypes as a series of circles, or spheres, that are in constant motion. Constantly swirling in and through one another, changing their positions, altering their alignment, but always coming together to create a whole that is inseparable from its parts. It is that image and my interpretation of it that led…

During my mediation this morning, a thought came to mind that I haven’t shared in awhile and that I think is worth sharing (or re-sharing) today: It is not your job to acquire belongings; it is your job to figure out what belongs to you and create extensions of its light. This is a thought…

Cosmic Field, paper collage, 2025 All real living is meeting. – Martin Buber If you want to create a revolution within yourself, stop treating your environment like an “it”—like it has no soul, like it exists for your use and to satisfy your needs. Try meeting your environment instead and treating it like the living,…

Artwork by Willow from Thelostcauldron Since I resumed this self-fashioning project in January, I feel as if I have been working at a break-neck pace. It’s been incredibly rewarding to see this project finally come together, to see the blocks I had experienced when I began this project suddenly and rather inexplicably removed. I am…

Counting Stars No. 2, paper collage, 2024 It is a frosty December morning, and I sit with a cup of coffee in front of the fireplace. There is soft piano playing in the background. Wrapped in a blanket, I watch the songbirds flock to my bird feeders, as they tend to do in large numbers…

Over the Horizon, paper collage, 2024 The older I get, the less I view my life as a series of successes and failures, goals to be accomplished, or opportunities for productivity and improvement. I look at myself at age 42 and realize that I am not, nor have I ever been, something to be optimized…