From just one seed…
Mandala Message: July 4, 2020 The universe speaks to us all the time with messages that can be challenging and hard merging with messages of generosity and appreciation. Two days … Continue reading
Lift the veil…
Mandala Message: May 31, 2020 Humans are able to create devices that can connect to each other while traveling 17,000 miles an hour way above the earth’s surface. Watching it … Continue reading
Brave New World…
Mandala Message: May 22, 2020 Happy with new moon this am…feeling a bit more movement. Movement these days has little relevance to movement a few months ago. The outer world … Continue reading
The Hidden Side of the Moon…
Mandala Message: May 8, 2020 When we all emerge from this “lock down” timing, may we come laden with the hidden treasures of the self and disperse them generously and … Continue reading
Stitching squares…
Mandala process: April 28, 2020 Stitching squares on a new mandala from old cloth scraps and cannibalized pieces of digital mandalas…with the morning news saying the same old (new) thing. … Continue reading
The Cocoon Opens…
Finishing a new cloth mandala…sewing it to a linen background to go into a deep purple frame. I used pieces from a couple of fabric printed digital mandalas and fabric … Continue reading
Egg Rise
Incubating in the cosmic egg…take your time, surrender to the eventual cracking of the shell. Emerge as your true self. (The Easter message.) [“Egg-Rise” watercolor, masa paper on canvas © … Continue reading
Pandemic Advice
800 year old pandemic advice from Rumi… You’ve made it out of the city,* that image of your body, trembling with traffic and fear left behind. Your face arrives in … Continue reading
Gratitude Following Each Breath
Gratitude following each breath can change everything… As we dive down deeper into this global event, today I find myself at the maximum capacity for listening to and talking about … Continue reading
Walk Yourself Home
Mandala Message: March 29, 2020 Advice to the home-bound… You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply … Continue reading
Fall Deep Into Your Brilliant Self
Mandala Message: March 27, 2020 As we stew in our own juices at home, here is an 800 year old message from Rumi, via Coleman Barks who titled it “Chickpea … Continue reading
Streaming…
Thank God for rain today in my neighborhood. We need cleansing in multiple ways right now. I am glad the plants are being fed and the earth itself. I am … Continue reading
Crown Thy Good with Brotherhood
Mandala Message: March 25, 2020 A new mandala swam forth from the stream…it’s not perfect or static, like a natural organism swimming from sea to shining sea. [“Crown Thy Good … Continue reading
Pathfinder
Drop down into your deepest self. Turn down the clamor of outside voices. Wash the dishes, sweep the floors. Make something (anything) with your hands. Sit on the ground (earth) … Continue reading
Rise from the Ashes
My postcard collage arrived in South Carolina for the 2020 Twitter Art Exhibit. Go to #twitterartexhibit to see images of all the submissions for this wonderful annual art exhibit where … Continue reading
Twelve New Year Mandalas for 2020…
Just finished making twelve mandalas, one a day for twelve days, as part of the New Year’s practice I have done for a long time (as taught by Ann Ree … Continue reading
Winter Solstice 2019…
Winter Solstice (still-point) today, Dec 21, at 8:20 pm PST… I wake up early these days with ongoing pre-dawn awareness of the rotation of the earth itself. Now, as I … Continue reading
Every Single Stitch…
At this moment, if I could ask the universe to save anything in this ongoing human—earth experiment, I would ask for a collection of every single stitch made by a … Continue reading
I’d like to talk about love…
“Now I’d like to talk about love. Love is impossible in the absence of trust. Real trust is formed of common action. Common action is a rarity in a country … Continue reading
Love Emerges
Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. Center your country in the Tao and evil will have no power. Not … Continue reading
Souls Gather to Fulfill the Blueprint of America
The mandala was made several years ago. I started out with some photos of children’s art I saw at a craft show. The photos ended up unrecognizable and came together … Continue reading
Redemption
Addressing the so-called “mental health” issue as a deterrent and/or solution for gun violence only works when there exists an adequate and active and widely available mental system…and when there … Continue reading
Stitching Time
Stitching draws me in. I don’t want to stop. Sometimes I wonder if it’s more distraction than art, but I keep stitching. It may add up to something in the … Continue reading
The Paths of Art…
The mandala reveals more about itself, as I use needle and thread to communicate with it. Art truly is a process, not a “thing”. See the yellow-ish stitches to each … Continue reading
The Round Table
Life always comes full circle, giving us chances for continual “do-overs.” A new 2020 calendar emerges with the cover mandala lifting itself up through the piles of mandalas made over … Continue reading
A Stitch in Time
I used to sew by hand almost fifty years ago. Here I am doing it again. I love the slowness of it. I forgive myself for being not so great … Continue reading
A Nest of Stuff
So…..several weeks ago I started my first online class (and her last online class) with Jude Hill. She stitches and wanders around in her process and calls her students “ragmates”. … Continue reading
Twitter Art Exhibit 2019
Excited to have a “postcard” in the 2019 Twitter Art Exhibit opening on May 11 in Edinburgh, Scotland. This is the first year this annual exhibit was open to digital … Continue reading
Possibility
“For me, mandalas—making them and contemplating them—is a deeply spiritual experience. I am grateful to all the mandalic threads that have been woven into my life—coming from so many human … Continue reading
Hosting a fun, creative workshop in March
“A Day in the Life of a Creative Soul” with Jeanette Richardson Herring A workshop, open to all, designed for creatives, artists and writers Saturday, March 9, 2019, from 9:30-4 … Continue reading
Elsah Cort 🌀 Artist 