You know, I often mistook ambition for self-torture. Or… much better said, I got so hung up on competing with other people that I forgot about being the best me I could be. After a whole lot of self-torture in the name of being better, I can tell you that’s not the way! It is exciting to be a better person, if you are doing it well! Brighter. More alive. On point, so to speak! Its amazing to wake up and see what you’ve been missing. To do more. To help more. No one is “done” evolving. Unless they’ve decided to spiral down. And you haven’t made that decision, so it’s all up from here! xoxo Dana
(Ben & Sherman)
Organic art need not be images of grass or vast oceans. It doesn’t have to be green and brown, nor does it have to be pictures of leaves and flowers. When art flows in a way that mimics the nature you respond to intuitively, it is evocative of the organic. And today’s 6 artists/collaborators have a way of making me feel nature, even in shades of pastel, fluorescence and metal. Continue Reading…
Feeling good should not be torture… Let it be easy! xoxo Dana
I was home last night in the post-rain haze thinking that it would be nice to have a warm cookie to turn Los Angeles into a bit more of a fuzzy and inving place; I am so glad my taste for something crunchy and gooey paid off! These coconut cashew cookies are suitable for breakfast (and least for me!), they are egg, flour and refined sugar-free and if you have about 5 minutes (plus 15 or 20 to bake them, and at least an hour to leat them cool) you are in for a treat! A cross between an oatmeal cookie and a granola bar, but much more substantial to chew, these last-minute cookies do not disappoint! Continue Reading…
This dragon fountain is filled with water that is total love. It flows all day and night, freely, in Taisekiji at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan.
We, too, should flow like water. Thats how things are at their best, just falling into place in a steady flow.
But… Continue Reading…
Welcome to my newly refined calling: helping people to cultivate their talents without shame, guilt, fear or too much frustration.
We all have genius within us.
I am a genius. I said this to someone last week and they actually laughed at me. That person gave up on life and happiness perhaps thirty years ago and was a bland and sarcastic sad-sack looking at me, snickering. He has his own genius, though it will never see the light of day. And so do you.
Are you cultivating it? Continue Reading…
This week’s Instagram is the wonderous Japanese utopian space of Taisekiji at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan. While I have so incredibly much to share with you about this trip- and I will- I wanted to post some pictures to keep the magic flowing now that I am back in Los Angeles! Continue Reading…
December 3, 2013 • 0 comments