For Illustration Day : Tools Coping Tools Reeling in the Pain  I used to participate in Illustration Friday years ago, but apparently that...

 if I could process something besides health problems in my doodle journal? Wouldn't it be even greater if everything I drew in my journ...

  Stuck Lost in the years waited Lost in tears that were hated Lost when I should feel free Free from scorn and guilt Free from the maze hop...

Where the dead are planted.  I was driving the other day and passed by a cemetery called Garden of Memories. The name disturbed me, but I di...

 Trauma Stuck and stagnant Awkward and shaking But not really rooted Searching for joy Nothing’s holding me here I strictly fo...

Alone in a Crowd Dear Mike, 38 years ago we were living a dream now you’ve been gone for 23 tears still form when I play your songs now I’m ...

 It’s weird. Spiders climbed all night, but their trajectories kept missing the desired lamp lit window, landing instead in a tangle of crys...

Cedar needles Juniper berries Spider web Palafox Yaupon berries Yaupon berries Dirt road in a rain drop

Beauty berries  Beauty berries  Black gum berries  Greenbrier berries  Greenbrier berries  I made jellies out of these last fall with stevia...

I've been trying to learn about and identify all the local edible flora.  This is a salad that I made today with some of the plants I fo...

 ... to a crazy year. It hailed three times, two tornadoes, and one month straight of 100+ degree weather during a drought that brought an o...

  Tangled behind a trained conscience That’s holding firm Good Bye forms cryptic blotches On a journal page An intuitive process for what ca...

  Organize. Sort. No time. Just wing it. Gotta keep going... Where's life going? Organize. Sort. No time. Just wing it. Gotta keep going...

 Today, being the outsider is a good thing.

Today The Radio reminded me of how lonely I am So, I opted for road noise instead I Prayed To fight fervent feelings for only a man Who pave...

  Bird song Wishes flying high In between notes Separate you and I Flawed thinking Five years are gone Wishes that echo An impossible song E...

Twisted Perception Twisted Perception This rock turns in on itself Parched and no pity For those God condemns In a dream The o...

My life is changing dramatically now. I've left everything behind, bought an RV, and moved to a campground in the middle of the ...

Waiting for Lab Results Here I am, nesting in my big comfy box of confusion, with antennae up, waiting for Lab Results. Even the snails ...

Some more from my doodle therapy. Dialogue Abstruse Dialogue Abstruse Every morning formulates Dialogue abstruse, While Logic slu...

These are some of my doodles using the Automatic Drawing Technique that I mentioned in the previous post , where I try to draw without think...

I've been working on creating art intuitively for the last several years, and it's been a struggle. I wanted to get back to that pea...