Becoming an artist is not the hard part. The hard part is doing the art, over and over. The hard part is bearing your own missed expectations about what your art should look like. The hard part is doing your work especially when the world tries to fill up your time...
“The Goddess Dissents” writings on the LFAE performance by Apollo Chapa, Joan Forest Mage & Corinne Viner
Life Force Arts Ensemble (LFAE) is a company of visual, literary and performing artists who create transformation through the arts based in the Life Force Arts Method (LFAM), a modern version of universal wisdom teachings that value true self and creative...
Creating LFAE’s “Rainbow Messengers” Performance: a Conversation with Aura Chapa & Joan Forest Mage
Joan: Do you want to say something about how we decided to create Rainbow Messengers? I remember I said, “Gee, could you do one of the performances for Life Force Arts Ensemble (LFAE) for the Fall Equinox?” To give some background: LFAE has been producing one of...
Hope and other poems by Gregory Holmes Singleton
Journey through the Forest of Enigma A BRIEF AUTOBIOGRAPHY A child of mossy swamps and root-dyed creeks Escapes to majestic mountains and the mighty sea below, Detours to the island of steel and concrete giants, Then comes to rest on the western shore of the long...
Cattitude: The Feline Art of Sacred Self Indulgence by Sharon Bechtold
Do you ever look at your cat and wonder how it is that they are so sure of themselves? So comfortable in their being? How is it that cats, regardless of their circumstances exude confidence, grace, and style? I've always wished to tap into the thought processes...
Health and Fulfillment through Nature Connections by Adam Davis
We humans receive nourishment through our many connections with the natural world. Food, water, shelter, and sources of energy all link to natural resources. However, we may not be fully aware of all of the connections between ourselves and the natural world. This...
Beatitudes and other poems by Apollo Chapa
Untitled bloom, the skeleton soft flowers of bitter flesh fetid in winter bloom, twin dreaming hearts empty womb carried forward graves sprout from within bloom, the mourning soul tearful embraces of snow wipe joy from blank eyes A Platonic Lover I have seen the...
The Tree’s Tale: An Excerpt from The River Goddess by Valentine Riddell
The tall Cottonwood that lived at the corner of DeVargas and Galisteo streets wasn’t in its place when it noticed Owl’s truck pull up to the curb—it was down by the acequia sipping water from the ice melt. Hastily it bounded back up the hill, landing with a jolt that...
Rewriting the Dream by Ruth Landis
What if you could imagine that your life is a dream? What if you could imagine that just as you can wake yourself up from a dream you are having at night, you could wake yourself up and rewrite your life’s dream? Sometimes when I am having a disturbing dream I wake...
An Excerpt from “Echoes of Earth”: Keepers of the Mountain by L. Sue Baugh
The Keeper of the Mountain - Mt. Narryer, whose ancient minerals are nearly the age of Earth itself, is located in the central Outback of Western Australia. This remote, undisturbed site is surrounded by a haunting solitude and silence. "You want to see Mt. Narryer?...