journal

March 19, 2012

The Blossoming Time

Shy snowdrops are being born in my garden, and I kiss winter goodbye like a lover.  Little faces stare to the earth, barely believing that the sun and soil have given them life, and I look back at my time with the winter muses here and gone in a white flash.  Before the first frost, […]

February 2, 2012

Rebirth on Imbolc: “Spring is stirring in my heart.  I heard Pan’s flute on the wind in a dream 3 nights ago, and now long to run wild through the Greenwood… Lady Winter has been a beautiful muse, but now there are songs for spring singing in the night as well.  Welcome.” Wonderland “Gammelyn’s Daughter, […]

January 26, 2012

Breaking Through

“And then it happened: The moment when inspiration met skill level, dreams met commitment and experience.  It happened last week after finishing a song that I’ve been trying to write for years: The moment that I knew I was on the right track.  The moment when I knew that it hadn’t all been some wild […]

January 12, 2012

Scribe

It starts like this: The white page sprawled before me on a winter night, with candles lit in my little room.  I sit with the pen (always black, never blue) in my hand, and begin—start to swirl and swish the letters across as I open to The Voices, and to the many words that come […]

January 7, 2012

Dig Deep

Here’s an excerpt from this week’s dream journal.  It was written late at night in a moment when I was really feeling like I wanted to give up on just about everything, especially my art.  While I am usually a pretty positive person, I am still human, and go through deep, painful moments of my […]