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Instagramming: Healthy & Happy
Happy & Healthy. Ease and rejuvenation. The start of great love and the cleansing of redemption. There is no question that my Instagram is growing heavy with happy, healthy omens of Spring. Reverend Nomura at the Nichiren Shoshu Temple saved a bird who was...
The Color Green & Your Creativity This Spring!
Green is the color we think of in Spring as life blooms, plants shoot up and creative energy starts to swirl in the air. In feng shui, the color green is representative of the element WOOD and this element dominates creativity, flexibility, socializing, growing and...
RETNA Rocks!
I have been a fan of RETNA for years, and now, as the landscape of Los Angeles is everywhere kissed by a mural of poetry and power, it seemed time to talk about the poetry of artistry. RETNA created a typography and visual code that corresponds with letters in the...
Designing Your Dream Life & Building Solid, Stable Foundations!
Safety and stability- two very big words that define your sense of peace and freedom to be all that you can be. In this wild world we live in, it is very easy to feel the pressure of achievement and jump past the need for a foundation in life and love. When you...
Feng Shui Q & A : Why Is It Bad If A Mirror Faces My Bed?
A reader asked the question: " You have said that mirrors in the bedroom are bad and my bedroom closets are mirrored. Why is it bad if a mirror faces my bed?" My answer: Mirrors are powerful. Lets start with that fact. Mirrors double everything they see, they add...
Wise Words From Wu Tang
And usually they will surprise you when they show up! There's another killer quote to pair with this one, along the lines of, "don't make someone else a priority who only sees you as an option." I love the idea of "magnetizing greatness" rather than "desperately...
The Key To Success: Avoiding Energy Vampires!
Consider this a cautionary love note to artists and open-hearted, joyful people of the world: energy vampires feed on you! The brighter you shine, the more these little demons will rise from nowhere and carefully, masterfully attempt to suck your life of joy. Your...
6 Artists I Just Discovered That Will Excite You!
Every once and a while I find a curator online that can mix the old and new, the established artists of might and the fresh faces that are poking through the firmament. Jemma of Rustybreak is one such curator. Art can provide a concrete vision of a fantasy or a...
How To Feel Miserable As An Artist (!!!)
(by Keri Smith)