Saturday, December 31, 2016

2016 Highlights

Chagall's ceiling at the Opera Garnier, Paris

Inspired by year-end roundups, I decided to create one of my own. And so, 15 bits of the best from 2016:
  1. Launching the prophetic art resource site, PropheticArt.Info on January 1st.
  2. Traveling on the book tour as the illustrator for Erin’s grand book, Wings: Gifts of Art, Life, & Travel in France
  3. Reading one of my poems at the iconic independent bookstore, Book Passage, during the release of the anthology, Vignettes & Postcards Morocco
  4. Standing beneath Chagall’s ceiling at the Opera Garnier in Paris
  5. Working with my mom on her second book of blessings: Blessings for Love & War
  6. Celebrating a mid-summer milestone with Hayley over uncontrollable fits of giggling
  7. Doing pre-workshop calisthenics led by the Poet Laureate Juan Feilipe Herrera at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers
  8. Helping plan another Deep Travel Morocco adventure with Christina and the inimitable travel writer, Tim Cahill
  9. Launching a greeting card line, Take Heart, with the savvy advice of Mindy. (The card line will be more accessible once I finish…)
  10. …updating my website to offer commissioned poetry & paintings, among other things (coming in January!)
  11. Tasting my first kouign-amann pastry in the Fillmore, San Francisco
  12. Finishing a full-length poetry collection…and beginning to send it out into the world! (Any contacts with small presses most welcome ;)
  13. Hand-delivering the paintings that sold from my art show
  14. Listening to my father give his last official blessing while on staff at the church he is retiring from
  15. Turning 40 and feeling like the truest goodness is about to begin….
Here’s to celebrating the good stuff when it's “time to laugh” and “time to dance,”  

Happy New Year!