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Instagram holds many seasons of my creative contemplation. It continues to be a place I share fresh paint & ink, and I'd be delighted to meet you there!

“Love for the earth and love for you are having such a long conversation in my heart.” -from Thirst by Mary Oliver Can’t get away for a whole week? Join me for a 3-day class at the @grunewaldguild, July 16-20, 2023. Star gazing and art making are two of my favorite spiritual practices. “Can we dream and envision without getting trapped in one way of doing things? As we live into resistance, can we let those dreams transform or change as they need to? Can we edit those visions while holding on to the spirit that brought them forward in us? … Our stories, our connection to this Earth, and the ways we learn to embody the work of resistance are all leading us to toward wholeness, toward integration… We hold our dignity. We hold Mother Earth’s dignity. We hold each other’s dignity. This is always resistance.” -Kaitlin B. Curtice, Living Resistance, p. 182-183 “In dreaming, I needed to commit to equipping myself with the right tools. … Sometimes… little epiphanies meet us wherever we are and ask us to look deeper.” -Kaitlin B. Curtice, Living Resistance, p. 181 “[C]reating a vision is holy work, deep and strong work that goes beyond a framework or an idea, beyond a conference room. It is cyclical and fluid, not structured and limiting. A vision lives and breathes; it is a way forward, a dream that is sure to come.” -Kaitlin B. Curtice, Living Resistance, p. 179 “So when I ask God <how are you?> and wait for the wind to blow, I am practicing prayer differently. And when the wind blows and the lapping water of a river answers, Creator asks, <And how are you?>… I get off my knees and look God in their eyes and breathe in and out, because that’s how I am, breathing the silence and the mystery.” -Kaitlin B. Curtice, Living Resistance, p. 175 “We need each other to show up as we are, with the gifts left to us by our ancestors. Even if we don’t fully know who our ancestors were, we lean into the ancestral kinship of humanity and ask what it means to love one another well. When we do, we create a holy vision of the world we want to choose day by day. And I believe that, over time, many of those visions will become a reality, bringing us to the sacred center of ourselves as well.” -Kaitlin B. Curtice, Living Resistance, p. 169 I’ll be teaching a course at the @grunewaldguild from July 9-14, 2023, called A Sacred Circle of Rhythm. One of the days we’ll focus on an ancestral mandala. “The Integral Realm is a place of expansiveness, a place where we step out of ourselves, where we hold all of ourselves, where our spiritual center finds its grounding and truly shows us the beauty of the universe.” -Kaitlin B. Curtice, Living Resistance, p. 163

You can also view my work on Pinterest. Here's an image from my recent journaling through The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story.

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