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Since I joined ARTShift I have been trying to figure out just what is my art....what do I create, what do I put into the world? I love to sing, but I can't carry a tune (one of the first sentences my first son struggled to say when he was about 18 months old was "no sing, mommy!" - I just cried thinking about all the months he must have spent trying to find the right words to say that would get me to finally stop singing him to sleep...) I can’t make it through a day without music in my life,… Continue

Part V—The Mission Wouldn’t we be happier if we were excited about each new day? What if we were happy every day? Tell me—do you have more energy when you are happy and excited or when you are down and out? Wouldn’t it be great to have a renewed energy about life? Wouldn’t it be easier to live each day with positive expectation as you work to achieve your goals and dreams? What would it be like to be learning and growing each day? Our paradigms are our prisons—the prisons of our thought proces… Continue

These are the next two installments to "Shattering Paradigms." There is one more to come in a few days. Part III--Paradigms It is our conditioning and our culture that holds us back. It is the framework through which we have been taught to live life—not actually taught, but the boundaries we learn as we go through life. These are paradigms. What is the definition of a paradigm? It is: a model that forms the basis of something: an example that serves as a pattern or model for something, especia… Continue

Part I—Life On the Edge “It is not given us to live lives of undisrupted calm, boredom and mediocrity. It is given us to be edge-dwellers.” Jay Deacon This quote has raised revolutionary thoughts within me. I have known that life is to be lived. That to achieve anything, even remotely worth achieving, one must get out of one’s comfort zone, confront fear, and do things that are not normally within the realm of our daily grind. One of my favorite definitions of happiness is: “People are happies… Continue

Artists Resonating The Shift... ARTShift... A.R.T.S. The wave... it is on the horizon... it's been growing for some time... a shift in consciousness. Individual and collective transformation... Organizations such as The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS - http://www.noetic.org/) have been conducting and sponsoring leading-edge research into the potentials and powers of consciousness to light the way to a new era in human development. A new movie (… Continue