Rodrigvitz Style

Celebrate Spring

This Passover week brings thoughts of the meaning of this holiday, inclusive of all people, the universal story of oppressed people yearning for freedom...the current struggles in the middle East, China, Darfor, the Ivory Coast.

I bought a copy of Our Haggadah and enjoy the connections within to all people and all traditions.

Happy Passover, Easter or whatever rites of Spring you celebrate...

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.  And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom.  A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

~Martin Luther King Jr

For Peace and Tolerance

Hunting and gathering objects...

and images...

to assemble a more literal interpretation of sanctuary...

drilling and gluing

 

to create a new work for a couple of upcoming shows.  I'll have this piece on hand at Mango Studio for the Longmont Studio Tour later this month.

A place of sanctuary, sacred space, peace and tolerance...

Simple Pleasures

Christina of Soul Aperture ,a women with a huge heart...always...and today in particular, is offering to donate $1, up to $250, to Doctors without borders for the ongoing support in Haiti for those that join her in sharing their simple pleasures.  I have so many to be grateful for, here is a sample...

Sharing time with Tess, enjoying life with Mr R, the tilted head looks from the pugs....what? what?

a hot cup of chai with extra ginger, sitting in the glow of the Mango Studio, a glass of red wine, dark chocolate

laughing with friends, reading, the last book I read is usually my favorite...the latest book I just finished, Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson

my blog friends...the inspiration they provide continues to astound me, newly...daily

eating out, cooking in

riding my bike

walking by the ocean, big blue Colorado skies, new green of spring....sunflowers, zinnias

Join us won't you?

Food for Thought

Another January journal page, Tess's hands...these are photographs that I sand, scrape, paint and draw on. 

I have also been exploring the concept of baraka.  I cannot find much written about this practice but have found this one book that talks of it.  Baraka is the act of writing and this act in itself produces the energy and essence of God's blessings (Goddess, the higher power) which can be directed to particular needs. 

The more I dig into these concepts the more I see how very interconnected our world is, even apparently disparate beliefs all share so many similar base symbols, icons, ideas and mystical knowledge.

Food for thought

Peace Building

Peace on Earth Shrine from my series of Little Works of Peace

I offer Peace on Earth....in joining Roo and the many others that are making a concerted effort on this day, International Day of Peace, to take a moment to sit in a peaceful state, speak, write, make art of Peace.

'Peacebuilding isn't "peacemaking" or "peacekeeping". Peace Day marks personal and planetary progress toward peace.'

Here's one idea from Global Mala;

'The purpose of the Global Mala Yoga for Peace Project is to unite the global yoga community from every continent, school or approach to form a "mala around the earth" through collective practices, based upon the sacred cycle of 108, on Sept. 21st, as the yoga world's offering to further the UN International Peace Day.' 

I will ask if my yoga class if they are interested in participating in this...108 sun salutations...hmmmm, maybe we can split it up, about 15 each for the 7 class members. 

Peace, paz, satta, paix...

and, peace-full greetings from Fran, me and Diane from the Longmont Studio Tour....for those of you that missed it I'll have pics to share in a day or so of the great time we had!

Haiku...Seasons Greetings

                       

Birdsong in the air

Vibrant color everywhere

Like magic.... appears

 

 

BE in this moment

Our feet firmly planted HERE

NOW sing the sweet earth

 

Juicy oranges

Blinding after winter blues

Mango LOVEliness

 

                       

 

Haiku here and here

Elizabeth and Pink Purl

Come on....try your hand

Aligning

 

perhaps the reason here that I have been feeling the need to spread the word....in small ways...

 

When the Moon is in the seventh house
and Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
and love will steer the stars

 

the age of Aquarius has actually dawned....7:25 am...February 14th...

 

did you feel it? 

do you feel it....the shift....peace mandala

BE Hapi

 

I am Hapi....a trip to the little Asian grocery to pick up tins....

 

hot wasabi peas must be eaten....

 

golden inspiration....waiting....

 

we are getting close

to BEing in the mango

To the Wind

 

Peace, Love and Happiness......papers and dried marigold bundles of intents put to the wind....

 

prayer flags left to the whims of nature

 

and the forces that BE.....joining the disintegration project and my quest for peace in the small moments,

 

hung in front of the new studio....I will watch this interaction and share the results on May 1st.

Tiny Open HeARTs

 

"Look for good news, not in the day's headlines, but within yourself. Look for the good within you and put that to work for you, for everyone else, for the planet and for life itself.

This tool is lifetimes old and will always serve you. Offer something good to others and to the world every day. To offer is to extend; it is a presentation or extension of quality.

Even as large-scale events unfold, remember that life is lived in the smaller, more personal moments. You are more affected by the breath of a butterfly you have never met than by the heated breath of world debate. Breathe deeply.

Breathe because there is life force in the breath and this same life force has the brilliance of a thousand suns."

Words by Pepper Lewis, the Peaceful Planet.....tin hearts for upcoming show/sale