recuerda mi corazon

postcards from paradise come fill your soul-cup

i think you know

 i am head over heels in LOVE with mexico.

i began traveling extensively through the interior,

indigenous and richly traditional areas of mexico

by the age of sixteen.

my love and admiration grows with every return.  

mexico permanently resides in my heart and one of my greatest joys 

is to share this charming, warm, creative melting pot of love, 

with others.

and if you really know me

you are aware of how i savor life to the fullest,

drinking in each day as if it just might be my last.

i  return to san miguel with this same passion,

offering you what i hope will be a life changing week,

a creative soulfilling adventure 

to inspire you all the days of you life.

 

 

i have found a home in san miguel and there is nothing i enjoy more

than throwing open the doors to this exotic life and inviting you along

for what is always extraordinary,

heart filling, 

and deeply moving.

san miguel de allende 

is the essence of what dreams are made of.

i hope this will be the year you will 

come away with me!

photo credit 

deb taylor

 

 

this year we are graced with three richly diverse artists

who not only dedicate their lives to creating,

they follow a deep soul calling to inspire

and lead others in fertile soil of  

self expression.

 

 

 

   Roxanne Evans Stout

Book of Wanderings

Sept. 6-13, 2014

 

 

 

roxanne's week will be a savoring of all that surrounds us;

the charm, architecture, exotic flora and fauna of

san miguel, allowing the beauty within and without 

to inspire page after page of richly textured,

painted, drawn, stitched, waxed and embellished 

works of art that will comprise 

our uniquely personal and memory filled

book of wanderings. 

 

 

 Rogene Manas

A Torn Paper Collage Workshop: Everyday Saints

October 18-25, 2014

 

 

allow me to introduce a co lover of all things mexico!

 if you are yearning to create your own host of 

everyday saints,

to be inspired by visits to ornate churches, and the rich traditions of a culture 

abundant with saints and visionaries;

this is the week for you!

rogene is a generous instructor willing to 

share a myriad of spectacular techniques and

unique approach to creative fulfillment.

 

 

 

Orly Avineri

Gateways to Art Journaling

November 15-22, 2014

 

 

 

 

 i am so looking forward to a week under the visionary wings

of orly avineri.

what unfolds before us is a deeply personal expressive unfolding.

please allow me to share orly's own description

of our creative musings.

"Enriched by self trust and acceptance,

painting, collage, words, pen and line work entwine to make expressive complex images.

It's all about one's willingness to reveal

vulnerability and rawness for the sake of true creative freedom.

Experiencing honest and joyous journeys takes precedence over producing beautiful outcomes.

Ultimately, Art-Journaling is about depicting the fluidity of life,

about effortlessly carrying one's self from one place to another. "

 

 

 

 

postcards from paradise

come fill your soul-cup

simply click on the name of each workshop

for a detailed discription of each offering.

to register email 

recuerda_mi_corazon"at"yahoo.com

for a creative adventure of a lifetime

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Wait for evening.
Then you’ll be alone.

Wait for the playground to empty.
Then call out those companions from childhood:

The one who closed his eyes
and pretended to be invisible.
The one to whom you told every secret.
The one who made a world of any hiding place.

And don’t forget the one who listened in silence
while you wondered out loud:

Is the universe an empty mirror? A flowering tree?
Is the universe the sleep of a woman?

Wait for the sky’s last blue
(the color of your homesickness).
Then you’ll know the answer.

Wait for the air’s first gold (that color of Amen).
Then you’ll spy the wind’s barefoot steps.

Then you’ll recall that story beginning
with a child who strays in the woods.

The search for him goes on in the growing
shadow of the clock.

And the face behind the clock’s face
is not his father’s face.

And the hands behind the clock’s hands
are not his mother’s hands.

All of Time began when you first answered
to the names your mother and father gave you.

Soon, those names will travel with the leaves.
Then, you can trade places with the wind.

Then you’ll remember your life
as a book of candles,
each page read by the light of its own burning.

 

beome becoming

Li-Young Lee

 

postcards from paradise

live each day with a burning passion 

 

 

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postcards from paradise mariposa love

finding my bliss

 

 

 

 

 

 

Go confidently
In the direction of your Dreams.
Live the life
you've imagined!

~ Henry David Thoreau ~

 

 

 

deb did it 

 

 

 

 

 

Whatever you can do or dream you can,

begin it.

boldness has genius, powers. and magic in it.

begin it now.

Goethe

 

 

 

 

 

rochambeau

 

You have to leave the city of your comfort
and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
What you'll discover will be wonderful.
What you'll discover is yourself.

~ Alan Alda ~

 

 

 

 

 

somepinkflowers

 

 

 

 

Don't ask yourself what the world needs;
ask yourself what makes you come alive. 
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs
is people who have come alive. 
-Harold Thurman

 

 

 

somepinkflowers

 

 

 

 

 

There are only two ways to live your life. 
One is as though nothing is a miracle. 
The other is as if everything is. 
-Albert Einstein

 

 

 

 

 

 

mango studio

 

 

 

 

 

 

Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience,
and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
-Harriet Tubman

 

 

 

 

dear mariposa dreamer in the mango studio,

 

when your dreams are clothed

with the wings of passion

everyone

learns to FLY!

 

 

love from,

your pollinators

 

 

 

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postcards from paradise life as prayer

before anything else...

place your heart in the arms of a tree

find the first flood of light and stand open armed

allowing the warmth to completely enter you

when thoughts begin to rise like sap searching for a home 

become the wind and simply let go

feel the willing sky carry you 

 the way your heart opens when birds sing 

resting beside you in the open air of acceptance

 witness the awakening all around you

 how it feels to be alive, to greet this new day

to live life like a prayer

begin there

 

 

postcards from paradise

sometimes we are nothing more than

cupped hands at dawn

hoping to catch the light.

 xoxo

 

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