It has been a busy week and I didn’t think I had anything to write but I have been inspired by some of my morning reading that covers news, art, and politics. And I remembered that I had a watercolor that perfectly expressed what I felt about the things I have read this morning.
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Lottie Johl, International Women’s Day 2025
March 8th is International Women’s Day, this is a blog about a working girl back in the 1800’s who wanted to change her life. Change is especially hard when no one around you wants to let you do it.
Nevertheless We Must Persist
Women’s rights are under attack, and we must fight back. We must persist.
Lessons from Mother Nature
Life goes on-I know I say this oftenHowever, it is true Life’s a precarious businessGardening can teach you about these thingsPlanting a seedling is likeGiving birth to a new beingIt’s survival depends on care and feedingGood soil and fertilizerThe right amount of water and sunshineAll in the proper balance Gives this little plant a chanceToContinue reading “Lessons from Mother Nature”
Lottie Johl
She was just LottieOne of Bodie’s working girls.Her past colored her present and her futureShe could do nothing to change it. She married a respectablebusiness owner Eli Johl who wasA butcher and owner of the City Market.Yet, even that could not erase her past sins. How do you out live your past?Decisions made under pressure,OrContinue reading “Lottie Johl”
Passages in Life
This last week or so seems to be particularly full of spur-of-the-moment changes and decisions to make.
Confidence
I can easily imagine one of my very young grandsons, or even myself as a youngster, taking a walk across the San Francisco Bay with no fear. When we were younger, as with most children, we were courageous and ready to try anything.
Pillars
Today marks the beginning of a new direction that my art wants to go.
Mystic Dreams is Now a Reality
First off, the show Mystic Dreams of Transformation has a little over a month left at the museum, till the end of May, just in case you wanted to see it in person. It is at Maturango Museum, 100 E. Las Flores, Ridgecrest, CA 93555.
What is it with those Black and White Floors?
Since the hanging of my latest exhibit at the Maturango Museum, which is truly an exciting event for me, there has been many questions and speculations about my using black and white tiles in perspective as the foundation for many of my works. And my thought has always been
On to the Next Adventure 