HOT OFF THE DIGITAL PRESSES

I haven't been posting for a few weeks as I have been busy creating a new website and book. I will share about the website another day. Today I want to shout out the book. The book is a compilation of images of the nature mandalas that I have made in the urban parks of Buenos Aires, Argentina contrasted against city scenes. You can view the complete book by clicking the link below the cover photo or by going to the top of this blog. I have embedded the viewing link in the blog's top border.

Making Mandalas in Urban Parks

LINK TO BOOK

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I hope you enjoy it.

In less than two weeks I will be on USA soil again. I have enjoyed my time here in Argentina and am looking forward to getting back into my New England woods.

Until soon....
Patt

PS: I will shout it out later but for the impatient ones here's the link for a sneak peak at the new site.
getin2nature.com

Chau 4 Now....

DID THE PATRIOTS MAKE ME HOMESICK?

CONGRATULATIONS PATS - WELL DONE :) The New England Patriots won another Super Bowl last night. I caught the game at a local watering hole here in San Telmo. I am still searching for my physical voice this morning.

I have been busy making mandalas and playing in the few natural spaces here in the area. In just two days I head off to Uruguay for a week. I am hoping for great weather as the last few times I have visited things were pretty rained out, such as roads! There is a town on the coast named Piriapolis with a big hill called the Cerro San Antonio. I hope to climb up it. I will tell you of the legend in a future post. Wish me some dry days to get to the top. In the meantime, here are some pretty little mandalas made on the costanera sur here in Buenos Aires. I have also entered them in the NATURE GALLERY page (link in the right side bar).

EUCALYPTUS LEAVES & SYCAMORE SEED PODS

Below one of the elements I happily found were leaves from the Tulip Tree. The first time I knowingly encountered a tulip tree was at Borderland State Park in Easton, MA where I created the seven foot mandala art installation last fall. There's one tree on the main trail by the farm house and another by the Ames Mansion. Check them out if you live nearby. Bring snowshoes or cross country skis. Actually you better wait. It is s deciduous tree. You would have a hard time finding the trees without their distinctive leaves or tulip like flowers. 

 

I admit that I have been - hmmm - not sure if this is the correct word or not - HOMESICK for my native New England woods but in all practicality they are under snow and more is on the way. Please hold up the fort for me and watch your back. Warm up those muscles before and after you shovel!

I will be back soon, after the melt!

Need some help with that back? Check out my other blog for my private practice and workshops. This is a post to help you with that back spasm. Click HERE.

Thanks for stopping by! Hasta Pronto - Until Soon.

FOCUS & PERSPECTIVE

Yesterday I went down to the Ecological Reserve to the river. There isn't a sandy beach there. Instead there are man made rocks or in other words chunks of broken buildings, bricks, pavements and unfortunately a lot of washed up trash. Still amongst all the plastic bottles, papers, broken doll parts and goodness knows what beauty can be found and compiled into a nature mandala.

I pose to you a rhetorical question... the fact that I could find the beauty and enhance it, is that a matter of focus or perspective? Think about it. So many of us spend so much time watching, listening and reading the news, facebook posts, web headlines and more and we feel insecure and fearful of the world around us. Is that because of our focus or perspective? Does our focus create our perspective or does our perspective create our focus? You choose both in one way or another. I chose the cockspur coral tree flowers and incorporated what used to be broken bottles. The turbulence of the river smoothed and rounded out the green glass pieces. They are easily touchable now.

Some words to think about. But please don't think too hard.  Just get away from the news and fear tactics the media uses to hold your attention and breathe in some of mother nature's fresh air. Take the time and refresh your spirit.

ANYWAY... I have added some new images to both galleries. Please take a look. The pages are listed on the right sidebar. Click on in and enjoy.

New WO-MANDALAs have been bubbling through my fingers to help you connect with the spirit of cooperation, community and unity and...hope. It has been so much fun being part of the process. 

Here is a preview. There's more - siempre (always). The womandalas are also featured in the 2D gallery.  ENJOY and SHARE!

TRANSITIONING

I arrived safely to Buenos Aires on Tuesday morning and am adjusting once again.  I am out of the woods and into city life.  Here there are many parks and most are kept meticulously clean of foraging materials but yesterday I did cross through a small park where tipa trees had shed their flowers and workmen had not yet swept them away.

I think it will take me another week to get into FULL BLOOM energetically and be more in the rhythm of city life but for now here is a quickie tipa mandala.  The winds kept the heat down yesterday but it meant that I had to work fast. I am hoping for continued breeziness today and tomorrow as my air conditioning just decided to go on vacation until Thursday.  Well - one needs to be like the bamboo - FLEXIBLE.  Yes grasshoppers - be like the bamboo.  Everything is easier that way.

I am closing with this photo. In my wanderings by the Ecological Reserve I discovered that on Sunday mornings there is an outdoor meditation gathering where you can be guided while communing with nature.  I'm IN.  Come join me if you are local.  I live close by and bring sunscreen and repellant!

Back to transitioning.  NAMASTE and ENJOY!


Stay tuned.....