Important Update...

Visit: Your Spirit Rocks! at our vendors booth every other week at the local Farmer's Market in Calistoga , CA

Saturday, September 26, 2026

How's it going?

Sometimes this is the toughest question to answer. Not because things may not be going well, but because we are sometimes caught up in how the question is posed and the tone in which it was asked. In fact, things are generally on the up and up, depending on our perspective. 

Texting can be very one dimensional.Punctuation and Emojis 😁 sometimes will help in relaying a particular feeling, but today so much more is being communicated by the timing involved.

Snail mail communicates this timing because reflection and the time is takes to write personal letters, and then send them through the postal service are so much more meaningful than the transient words that appear on a screen via the internet.

Our joy can be stiffled when we meet someone who we may know from the past, and our mere prescence may communicate  something we may not even be aware of; Yet what is being said may not communicate what is being conveyed at all! Silence and simple pauses communicate just as much as verbal signals.

Everything communicates... even inanimate objects ! 

( Like ROCKS, for instance! )

Today, i feel the joy of my Higher Power coming through. The Farmer's Market is still trudging along, and bringing folks from out of town.Although I haven't been participating there in September, I plan on being back at the end of October. we're still attempting to further this career as an artist and teacher. My hope is that this will allow me to be fully self-supporting throughout the year.

As I write this,my rent is coming due and I have just about the amount left in my bank account to cover it. I trust that things are going to move forward, but only in God's time. Not mine. 

The rock business is on hold, but painting them is not. I've been coming up with some unique designs like the one below, and if you have a way of getting a hold of me you can make me an offer. 

I hope to see you at the tail end of this summer season to welcome the Fall with wonder, personal joy and unexpected blessings.

as always,

Your Spirit Rocks!





Thursday, September 17, 2026

Transiting to Panels

 The pursuit of beauty is a never ending journey.It is not true that an artist is never satisfied. The satisfaction one may experience in completing a work may be true, but it is transitory. However, when an artist rests on their laurels, they will probably not be able to discover what the next adventure will be. Whether or not the medium is the message or the message becomes the medium, Marshall McLuhan had it right. We have to keep moving on. 

The work I've been most attracted to has been that which can be called Illuminating.In other words, it takes on a different character depending on the light that surrounds it.

 An artist I've come to appreciate is Alex Aliume ( appropriately named ) His gallery is called Aliume Art and is located in New York. Although I have not visited this gallery, it is my hope that I will before I pass over into the next realm

https://www.aliumeart.com

At 75 years of age, I feel that my work will continue to be elevated by this man's creative pursuit. I am encouraged to continue along with mutual appreciation and inspiration.Below is a project that showcases a direction I intend to develop...





Saturday, September 5, 2026

Maddie's Magic Rocks!

 It has been brought to my attention that their is another Rock Star from Kansas City who loves to collect rocks. Madison Lang has a condition known as Rhabdomyosarcoma ( a form of stomach cancer ).To help her cope with the news, family and friends began painting rocks and adding them to her garden.

“Everybody really wanted to chime in and send Maddie some rocks as she’s navigating this journey,” her father Zach said. The rocks feature words of hope, encouragement, and things that make Madison happy. Madison's mother, Lauren Lang, said the small, colorful rocks put a smile on her face. 

 She now has a rock garden that has grown since May, and as of August she has over three hundred hand-painted rocks in her collection! 

If you'd like to send a painted rock for her Rock Garden mail it to:

 7500 W. 151st Street, P.O. Box 23335, Overland Park, Kansas 66283




Below is The Magic Spinner rock sent her way. I hope she keeps this one by her bed at night.

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