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A Vivacious Cycle

April 19, 2015 · Leave a Comment

“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.” ~mary anne radmacher Sometimes I feel like I’m absurdly gifted with things nobody wants. Like, “She is really […]

New Art

January 21, 2015 · Leave a Comment

“For me, a picture should be like sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. It must have radiance; it must be like those stones which Pyrenean shepherds use to light their pipes.” ~joan miro  Joan Miro inspires my new creative work! Here is a sketch for a pendant to […]

Good Purposeless-ness…from Other Voices

October 20, 2014 · Leave a Comment

“like the lovely, free-form edge of a bird’s wings, we cultivate our essence, an alchemy of soul…..this, simply by being present and alive…..yes, fully alive……”  ~ in the blue Our Strength Found in Fragile Depths  “I am especially struck with the idea of the purposeless life, filling the well with snow. I suppose all life […]

Joyful Creativity

July 7, 2014 · Leave a Comment

       Maui – Polynesian Trickster God Excerpts from IT’S BETTER TO BE A TRICKSTER THAN A MARTYR by Elizabeth Gilbert “There is another way to be creative that does not make a fetish out of suffering. There is an older way, a richer way, a more generative way — the way human beings had been […]

Summer Time Well Being

June 24, 2014 · Leave a Comment

A long, long time ago in a far off land my best friend was a boy named Michael who lived up the street. We were both around 6 or 7 years old and we loved playing together.  I recall sitting in the ivy under the big oak tree with big pillows stuffed under our broadly […]

A Call to the Universe

April 13, 2014 · Leave a Comment

So I am having fun and they all say, “Just follow your passions and life will find you!” But I still have that longing, that requirement to be intimately engaged with one other person. To be joyfully entwined with them and all their interesting foibles and have them lovingly entwined with me and all my […]

Transported by Joy

March 27, 2014 · Leave a Comment

The sun is shining and the cool winds of a burgeoning spring are blowing thru my hair. I am driving home after a great day of doing what I love. I am joy.  Time is stopped as a wonderful feeling surges from within. Then I see the break lights. But there is no thing that can come between me […]

Darkness, Play, Joy

February 24, 2014 · Leave a Comment

“What if this is what it looks like while my dream of the end of Apartheid is happening?  What if my being in this very situation is… part of… my overcoming?”~Nelson Mandela about his imprisonment“Just how do we deal with agitations of the dark? How do we make our way through the tangle of being […]

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Lani received a B.F.A from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1986 and earned a B.A in Art Education from NCCU in 2000.
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