pink + blue winter

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Turning tides …

Aligning with the energies of new beginnings…

The power of your creative thoughts…

 These lines found me today.

They brought me to my feet and tip - tapped me on the shoulder.

I think there is something to them. It get's me thinking about substances that possess unusual properties, the cosmos and such . . .

I believe that the simple act of getting day dreamy once a day will change your life.  Try it. Spend a few minutes everyday for a month pretending you are living the biggest, brightest version of what the good life is to you. Ask yourself things like: 
“ What does my ideal day look like?”  “Where am I living?” “Mountains/Ocean/Desert/Plains/Hills/Flat Lands/City?”  “How do I earn my living?”  "Who do I share in conversation with?" " What are the days simple pleasures?"

I promise it will gift you serendipitous surprises and that little kid feeling of molding mud pies and playing make believe. Day after day turns into a steady stream of play time and play dough. Foot loose and fancy free. It is light, easy, fluid and flexible. You remember? It lives in that part of you that knows you have an ace up your sleeve anyway, so how could you lose?

Oh! Look what was waiting for me in the last paragraph:

We need to declare with certainty and conviction what it is we desire.

I like that.

I am doing that.

We can all do that.

Right now in fact.

Mary Oliver writes, “Tell me. What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

 ( * ) If you are feeling brave, I am offering the following as extra credit for the Alchemy of Connection project. In the spirit of the found lines above and Ms. Mary Oliver, I invite you to send me a short, detailed list of what your daily looks like when you are lined up in new beginnings and living your desire with certainty and conviction?

Send to amykomar@yahoo.com     

Subject line:  My New Story

What happens to your list? It will inspire a painting and become a part of 2010’s Spring/Summer collection. I will post the finished paintings on my blog + website starting in late March.

(ps) hi. If you are scratching your head about what my 2010 Spring/Summer project is – you can read more here 

(pps) if you already sent in your list for Alchemy of Connection know that this extra credit activity will join forces with your old list and inspire even more clearly your joy and our connection *

4 Good Things

Washing hands in orange and clove scented water

322 dollars in quarters 

Fire

Avocado, Orange Bell Pepper, Tomato, Cucumber, Red Leaf Lettuce

Thirty-Three

I am eating leftovers. Not just any leftover’s – birthday leftovers. The best part? The chocolate Ice cream cake.   33 is already delicious.

A cover of Love and Happiness is playing on Mountain Stage tonight. I can’t help but have a flashback to high school – listening to Al Green sing loud out of tall stereo speakers, kicking it on Carrie’s water bed with Emily. It was after school. We were drinking Dr. Pepper’s and smoking cigarettes. There was a Pentax K 1000 between us. We were making art and bouncing back and forth in possibility. It was the early days of a wide-open life.

(Side note: Carrie and Emily, and many more lovelies will be featured in 2010’s Lovely Lady Series, returning this spring!)

what thirty below can do on the inside of one's front door 

I am happy to share with you that acting with intention has been working out for me. I’ve been taking photographs daily and digging into what this Mac can do! I am a smitten kitten when it comes to this piece of technology. I think I even squealed the other night when I was editing images. Thanks Apple for the love.

Today is the winter deadline for Alchemy of Connection lists. Thank you to everybody who has helped grow the idea into a lovely collage of daily joy’s with your lists.  I am inspired by you and am eager to continue our conversation with washes of iridescent paint, vibrant color and tiny detailed dots.

If you missed this deadline and find yourself wishing you could send me your list – no worries - you will get a chance in June *

 Happy January, Love.

What yesterday looked like:

5 minutes and 19 seconds...

...of daylight gained up here in Fairbanks since December 21st. Solar eclipse and a new moon this week. I turn 33 on Thursday. I plan on eating ice cream cake, taking a walk in the woods and get a massage to mark the occasion. I was born at 2:22 in the afternoon back in '77. The numbers are intriguing. Seems lined up and lucky if you ask me. I think you and I are going to be friends 2010. You strike my fancy as bringing all sorts of good. 

Today I finished a painting I started a year ago. The process this go round was interesting. This piece was a puzzle. Normally, I work on a piece stop and start for no longer than a few days. 
This one in particular had something else in mind. I started it last November and let 9 months pass before I returned to it. I thought about it for weeks...layering details and washes every few days. It seemed every week I was able to see a little more clearly how to work this painting.  I surrendered to the slow going process and look at what it became...

The beginning: Lovely Lady Blog Series

One intention I have for 2010 is to write a regular feature highlighting – one at a time – one lovely lady.  The idea has been simmering since last spring. I was vacationing in Germany when it plopped into my head like a sugar cube into coffee. The women who have inspired me are many. I will start this series by going back to high school ( yes, the math on that is15 years ago! 33 and happy to be!!)

Anna Jeanette Poutous. Hometown: Houston, Texas

Adventurer, Rider of bikes, The girl who I have hiked & camped the most with, Fashionista and one wicked interior decorator. She will literally go down to Home Depot with blue and yellow American Spirit boxes to make sure the paint is an exact match. Oh yeah. She is also the female version of my friend Nathan when it comes to “music guru-ness.”

I remember driving in her CJ-7 Jeep around Austin, Texas listening to NWA (of all things!) with a pixie haircut and Amy’s Ice cream photo booth pictures stuffed in our pockets. Life was free and easy, with nothing but time. 


Dang. My memories of Austin, Texas in the early nineties are magic: Honeysuckle smelling summer and cool pockets of air while driving through the hills at night. It is a cold one, flip-flops and a suntan. It is drum circles and some dude painted silver at eeyore’s birthday. It is a spontaneous kiss in the red light glow of a basement jazz club and all day music festivals. It is living at 602 Elmwood in a room made of windows and Kelly Willis weekly at The Shady Grove. Shit Austin. You and me go way back.

I could go on for a long time with all the memories. I realize now it is going to be tricky keeping this feature to a reasonable length.  The ladies shine a lot of light.

So. I will do it like I like it done and give you a ‘list.’

The (6) images that come to mind when I think of Anna :

(*) sunset colored dust eddies swirling alongside long stretches of desert roads

(*) white washed domes + the Mediterranean

(*) emerald green and cowboy boot brown

(*) Red dirt earth

(*) The West streaming by behind rolled down windows, it is early summer

(*)  Yellow leaves on Birch Trees

The next lovely lady will be here Spring/2010…Stay Tuned…