Happy Easter!

Photo: from my archives… no tulips and irises in Bali

It’s Easter Sunday morning here in Bali. I’ve always liked the symbolism of Easter – rebirth, new beginnings, ascension to a Higher Self, union with God, hope, and all sorts of other good things.   I wish you all a very Happy Easter, no matter your religion – may this wish be whatever you need it to be at this time in your life.

I needed a reminder on my iPhone that today was Easter as I haven’t seen any obvious signs of it in this predominantly Hindu culture.  Grant it, I don’t know if I would have seen the signs as I avoided going into town yesterday during the last day of our workshop.  The others went shopping all day. Instead, I stayed at our retreat center and enjoyed the nature sounds, picked up my laundry (after hand-washing it in shampoo for 3 weeks, I decided to get it properly washed), went for a short walk in the neighbourhood for lunch in the very hot sun, went for a swim in the pool in the pouring rain (no lightening so it was lovely to watch the drops bounce on the surface and not worry about sunburns), put another layer on one of my paintings (and realized I just wasn’t flowing with it), and worked on my photos/blog.  In the evening, our group went to a beautiful restaurant for our goodbye dinner – the best fish curry ever (served in a huge coconut)!  It was a beautiful ending to a beautiful workshop.

The roosters are now calling the world to waking and it’s time for me to pack up and move to my last retreat center for the second half of the Eye of the Spirit Visionary Art retreat with Philip Rubinov Jacobson, Mantra Cora, and Wolfgang Widmoser.  The group will have already been together for a week – I can only hope that I can ease my way into this new group and workshop with joy and grace.

One of my goals this week is to blog less and paint more.  I so love sharing and working on my photos, but I’ll admit that this week, it took my attention away from painting.  I don’t like unfinished projects, so with every trip, I wanted to edit my photos and write the stories before I forgot them and before I had so much to deal with that the task would have been overwhelming.  It’s just the way I am.  Who knows, I still may end up writing posts every day, but I’m putting the intention out there my main focus will be elsewhere.  Let’s see how that goes. 🙂

Have a great week!

Photos from my walk around Pugig House: