what color is your joy?
James Baraz’s, Awakening Joy, a ten-month experiential course to develop well-being and happiness, starts tonight in Berkeley (www.awakeningjoy.info). I am taking the course via the internet and am excited that it is starting. I got to be with James at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City earlier this month and get a taste of the course and his new book with the same title. I was touched deeply by the experience of his work.
I registered for the course last year and didn’t really participate and do the exercises. I was focused more on, Stephen Levine’s book, A Year To Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last, and trusted that joy would come when it would. And here it is <smile>.
I can feel it flourishing already in so many places in my life – especially in my current watercolor paintings (see images below).
So, I invite anyone intrigued to look at the course and in general where joy, happiness, contentment and well-being are present in your experience of life and give it color, form and texture as your art-making guides you to express it.
This month’s inquiry is “what color is your joy?“. Have fun with it.
My Art Work as Inspiration for Your Art Work
I share my artwork here to inspire you to create your artwork. It is through your art-making that you will discover more about who you are.
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| 010810-2.jpeg watercolor on paper, 2010, 9″ x 12″ |
010810-5.jpeg, watercolor on paper, 2010, 9″ x 12″ |
010810-6.jpeg, watercolor on paper, 2010, 9″ x 12″ |
You can click on an image to see a larger version within the online gallery.
I always welcome a connection with you. If you would like to share about the inquiry, art-making or other things happening in life, please feel free to contact me.
Live in the remembrance that in all of time, there will only be one you. Your greatest gift to yourself and the world is the expression of your authentic self.
-Ryl
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