April 2nd is First Friday Artwalk. I will be showing my work at Cafe Daily Fare, 408 East Route 66, located in the old ice house, just 2 blocks east of The Green Room down the alley. Join us from 6 -9 pm!

Norma Russell Sheff Posted this to my FaceBook page, but I just had to post it here. Some of the best inspration comes from our friends.

Thank You Norma!

Many Blessings to you,
Christina


This is in the Unitarian Church in Las Cruces, NM. It's Clyde Tombaugh polishing a telescope mirror. This is only one portion of a whole wall. There is a raven behind him.

EARTHSHINE

Today I see Clyde Tombaugh polishing a telescope mirror, his image caught forever, almost, in the stained glass window of the Unitarian church.

He will polish it, polish it fine, until the stained glass is gone,
the mauve jewelers’ rouge running off the squat glass cylinder in a ferric oxide flood. Pluto exists.

Clyde’s eyes, unnaturally clear and blue, meet my gaze
over his sinewed hands, as planets circle
and galaxies beckon,
and I remember earthshine.

Just when night is darkest on the mountain trail,
seven humans straggle back to camp
from the waterfall, without a light, convinced
we cannot navigate like the silent owls,
nor like lions, with their shining eyes;
that as creation’s least-natural foster children, we are here
less competent than the nimble-fingered tarsier;
only human, dispossessed, and far from at home
in the world of night.

It’s night! we say, No moon!
There’s nothing out there! Only stars!!

Slowly, we realize that we have begun to see;
a subtle glow emanates from an unknown source
… the sky? We can discern trees, the path,
an occasional patch of phosphorescence,
rocks, a dim horizon, on this dark side
of our world.

Too long we have bent our heads and shielded our gaze
before the gods of the city lights, thinking them real;
to remember that we should name, or even see,
planets, galaxies, great individual stars.
Our sight is dulled by angled things.

The truth is:

The earth shines beneath our feet.

Whose telescope now watches this unexplored world,
and sees us choosing to stumble, blind,
surrounded by light?

Norma Russell Sheff

This was the my passage from the Daily Word today. It is the perfect blessing for me, now that I have a new space to live and to create in. I am so blessed!!

Thanks!

I bless my home as a place of comfort and rest, a place where beauty and graciousness are expressed and experienced. The atmosphere of my home is permeated with love and peace, light and sunshine. My home is a space for refreshment, renewal and mental and physical well-being because the love of God is reflected in this space.

I bless and value everyone who enters my home. I practice patience, cooperation and respect and do all I can to create a haven where every family member and guest feels God's spirit of love, peace and joy within these walls.

I am grateful for my home and for the privilege it affords me of expressing grace, beauty and hospitality.

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Here are a few images that were visually inspiring from Costa Rica. And then there were the birds, Macaws, Toucans, Parrots, Humming birds! Butter flies... The Magnificent Blue Morpho! The first time I saw one I was returned to my childhood chasing it down a jungle road. So big and blue, it almost seems surreal!

I am back from the jungle paradise of Costa Rica. I am full of inspiration! I played in the ocean and I saw breath taking displays of the glory of nature.

This piece,"Place of My Strength" is on exhibit at the High Country Conference Center on the campus of Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. It measures 36"x44" and is framed in red oak. It is my homage to a giant Alligator Juniper.

Just past the Flag mall, there is a well-known trail called Fat Man’s Loop. At the top of this loop just east of the turn off that climbs to Elden lookout, sits a massive Alligator Juniper just above the trail. She is centuries old with many branches reaching out in a nurturing canopy. There is a boulder to sit on and a branch to lean on. I go there to pay my respects and give thanks for so many things…

This incredible piece is available for purchase. Please contact me for more information on how to have this uniquely original work of art. 928-699-6824

Blessings,
Christina