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Art as Emotional Architecture: Dr. David Clements, Pam Gregory, and the Evolutionary Wave Behind My New Paintings

Art as Emotional Architecture: Dr. David Clements, Pam Gregory, and the Evolutionary Wave Behind My New Paintings

Art as Emotional Architecture: Dr. David Clements, Pam Gregory, and the Evolutionary Wave Behind My New Paintings Cathedral of Light, Panama, 2026 Something has shifted in my work lately. Not MORE »

June Mid-Year Energy Reading

June Mid-Year Energy Reading

Art of Life Inspiration Deck — Where Water Holds the Light There’s something sacred about June. We are standing at the threshold—halfway through the year—where what we began in hope MORE »

What a Life. What a Legend. Why David Attenborough Inspires Me

What a Life. What a Legend. Why David Attenborough Inspires Me

There are lives… and then there are lives that feel like a love letter to the Earth itself. And when I think of that kind of life, I think of MORE »

What Flowers and Butterflies Teach Us About Change

What Flowers and Butterflies Teach Us About Change

“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.” — Chuang Tzu Nature has long been a source of inspiration for those navigating life’s transitions. Flowers MORE »

May Energy Reading: New Beginnings, Purpose & Peace with the Art of Life Inspiration Deck

May Energy Reading: New Beginnings, Purpose & Peace with the Art of Life Inspiration Deck

There is something magical about May. I feel it in the air, in the light, in the quiet inner stirring that says life is ready to bloom again. May carries MORE »

The Healing Power and Symbolism of White: Embrace the Serenity and Pure Potentiality

The Healing Power and Symbolism of White: Embrace the Serenity and Pure Potentiality

I’ve been reflecting lately on the troubles impacting the world and how enamored some people are with war and terror. It’s such a distressing time for so many. I thought, MORE »

The Surprising Health Benefits of Humidity (and How to Thrive in a Tropical Climate)

The Surprising Health Benefits of Humidity (and How to Thrive in a Tropical Climate)

The Surprising Health Benefits of Humidity (and How to Thrive in a Tropical Climate) There’s something unmistakable about stepping into warm, humid air. It wraps around you. It slows you MORE »

Easter in Panama: The True Meaning of Holy Week, Mary Magdalene, and Spiritual Renewal

Easter in Panama: The True Meaning of Holy Week, Mary Magdalene, and Spiritual Renewal

There is something deeply unexpected about Easter in Panama… It’s not about chocolate.Not about noise.Not about excess. It’s quieter.Older.Sacred in a way that stays with you. After leaving New Zealand’s MORE »

April Energy Reading: Weaving Light, Unity, and Renewal with the Art of Life Inspiration Deck

April Energy Reading: Weaving Light, Unity, and Renewal with the Art of Life Inspiration Deck

April Energy Reading: Weaving Light, Unity, and Renewal with the Art of Life Inspiration Deck There is something about April—this threshold between seasons, between what has been and what is MORE »

How Failure Can Be A Good Thing

How Failure Can Be A Good Thing

Amazon; Apple; Barnes and Nobel, Kobo, others Many of my clients struggle to believe how failure can be a good thing. Does this sound like you? Sometimes looking at the things people you regard MORE »

2026 Quotes to Live & Love By

2026 Quotes to Live & Love By

Looking for daily inspiration, powerful quotes, and meaningful words to guide your life? You’re in the right place. Welcome to 2026 Quotes to Live By—a growing collection of inspirational thoughts, MORE »

March 2026 Energy Update-New Beginnings: Choosing Beauty, Passion & Calm.

March 2026 Energy Update-New Beginnings: Choosing Beauty, Passion & Calm.

An Autumn Transmission from the Art of Life Cards There are moments when a card spread is not a prediction.It is a mirror. This Art of Life spread — laid MORE »

The House That Was Never Built: Remembering Architect Pip Cheshire

The House That Was Never Built: Remembering Architect Pip Cheshire

Recently, while travelling in South America I learned of the passing of New Zealand architect Pip Cheshire. He was only 75 years young. Some people enter our lives briefly and MORE »

Feb 2026 Energy Update | Intuitive Art, Oracle Reflections & Spiritual Guidance

Feb 2026 Energy Update | Intuitive Art, Oracle Reflections & Spiritual Guidance

A Month of Purposeful Blooming Hi my joys, I hope you enjoy the month of Feb, guided by the six-card Art of Life guidance for the road ahead There are MORE »

Why Bruce Springsteen Inspires Me

Why Bruce Springsteen Inspires Me

Using Your Voice When It Actually Matters There are artists who soundtrack your youth, and then there are artists who walk beside you through adulthood—steady, unflinching, telling the truth even MORE »

9 Ways to Apply Paulo Coelho’s Philosophy to Enhance Your Creative Life

9 Ways to Apply Paulo Coelho’s Philosophy to Enhance Your Creative Life

Paulo Coelho has been a guiding light in my creative journey, particularly through his belief in the power of dreams and the pursuit of one’s personal legend. His novel The MORE »

Live, Laugh, Love and Play: Inspirational Quotes to Guide and Uplift Your Day

Live, Laugh, Love and Play: Inspirational Quotes to Guide and Uplift Your Day

Sometimes, one word, one sentence, one inspirational thought can change your life. Every day, after waking, I prime my day by setting an inspiring and affirming intention.  Below is today’s MORE »

Where A Kiss Lasts Longer Than The Land is Wide

Where A Kiss Lasts Longer Than The Land is Wide

Where A Kiss Lasts Longer Than The Land is Wide, Cassandra, 2026 Atmosphere, Not Ornament Art belongs in spaces where people arrive. There is a moment when you enter a MORE »

Living Energetics, Plasma, and the Intelligence of the Earth

Living Energetics, Plasma, and the Intelligence of the Earth

Caldera, Cassandra, 2026 This work was born from a day that felt less like an outing and more like an initiation. At Caldera, Panama, the hot springs are encircled by MORE »

These are the two ways to grow

These are the two ways to grow

“There are two ways to grow, by adding or shedding,” writes James Clear in his newsletter. Clear is the author of the best-selling book Atomic Habits. I have added more MORE »

Make the Everyday Sacred

Make the Everyday Sacred

“When we live from our heart intelligence, the fields within them are profound,” Dr David Clements. Dear friends, join me in exploring how to make the everyday sacred with simple MORE »

2025 In Review—True Joy and Euphoria

2025 In Review—True Joy and Euphoria

EUPHORIA: noun Psychology.,  a feeling of happiness, confidence, or well-being sometimes exaggerated in pathological states as mania. a state of intense happiness and self-confidence. And so the year begins… As MORE »

January 2026 Energy Update | Intuitive Art, Oracle Reflections & Spiritual Guidance

January 2026 Energy Update | Intuitive Art, Oracle Reflections & Spiritual Guidance

A New Beginning • Courage • Alignment • Soul Renewal Hola from Boquete, Panama It’s Christmas Day as I recorded this video and I thought it would be really nice MORE »

Love, Courage, and the Quiet Freedom of Christmas Eve

Love, Courage, and the Quiet Freedom of Christmas Eve

It is the most incredible day. Christmas Eve morning, soft and luminous, the kind that arrives without urgency and asks nothing of you but presence. We’d already been out for MORE »

Stress Less This Christmas: A Gentle Guide to Finding Calm, Joy, and Meaning

Stress Less This Christmas: A Gentle Guide to Finding Calm, Joy, and Meaning

Dear joys, I hope you enjoy my reflections on how to stress less this Christmas and play the game of life. As I write this post, it is Christmas Eve MORE »

Love, Slowness, and the Courage to Choose Joy

Love, Slowness, and the Courage to Choose Joy

We’ve just returned from the most beautiful breakfast at The Rock, our favourite place to begin a morning. We were greeted warmly—by name—by both the general manager and the managing MORE »

The Art of Slowing Down: A Sloth, a Flower, and the Rainforest of Gamboa

The Art of Slowing Down: A Sloth, a Flower, and the Rainforest of Gamboa

There is something profoundly calming about watching a sloth eat a flower. At the Sloth Sanctuary of Panama, deep in the rainforest near Gamboa, time slows to the gentle rhythm MORE »

The Joyful Artist Is on Sabbatical

The Joyful Artist Is on Sabbatical

The Joyful Artist Is on Sabbatical A season of renewal, expansion, and creative metamorphosis There comes a moment in every artist’s life when the soul whispers,“It’s time.” Time to step MORE »

Leaving Kerikeri, Taking Aroha With Me

Leaving Kerikeri, Taking Aroha With Me

As Laurie and I prepare to leave our soul sanctuary in Kerikeri and begin our new chapter in Panama, I’m letting go of some cherished treasures—including a beloved Persian rug MORE »

Art of Life Inspiration Reading for December

Art of Life Inspiration Reading for December

Welcome to your Art of Life Inspiration Reading for December—a month of powerful portals, sacred timing, and creative rebirth. If you’re an art lover, a spiritual seeker, or a woman MORE »

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