“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary can speak.”

~ Hans Hofmann

Nature is a true creative master and teacher of design abundantly sharing examples of identified principals and elements of art.

"Keep knocking and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who is there.

How do you feel when required to wait unexpectedly for something or someone and you did not allow yourself time to have to do this? Sometimes different expressive emotional words erupt from deep inside ourselves like a volcano of hot lava.

"Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain…" Vivian Greene

Many great locations around the world have physical reflecting pools included within their environments. They come in many shapes and sizes.

T.S. Eliot said “For last year's words belong to last year's language.

And still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth, “You owe me.” Look what happens with love like that. It lights up the sky. Rumi

We are so used to the sun shining on the earth that we take its light for granted.

Pause and Breathe

We all have twenty-four hour days. You have many items on your to be and to do lists. It can seem that the minutes available in the day are not enough to get everything done. You want to be balanced in your daily schedule.

"As with a flower and a tree, choose to be a full awesome colorful spectrum of YOU. Within the seasons of time, embrace and then release with blessings the time to pause, the time to listen, the time to see, and the time to just be.

Your environment is your external body. How you honor it reminds you of your own self-worth, ability to live your life fully and is your physical connection to the greater Universe. Lynn Scheurell

You are connected to what is around you.