Tropical Art Giclee Prints

11/04/2024

“The magic you are looking for is in the work you’re avoiding.”

10/27/2024

Is everybody watching “Concert For Carolina”???!!! It’s SO awesome!! They’re bringing the house down! Raising money for our neighbors! ❤️🙏❤️ I’ll add more pics as the night goes on!

10/26/2024

This local business owner here in our area has a very important message. Please listen.❤️

In this video I talk about secondary impacts that nobody is really thinking or talking about after natural disasters namely Hurricane Helene. There are busin...

10/19/2024

I just watched “The Earthing Movie” on You Tube last night. The movie explains that there’s electric magnetic energy that exudes from the earth and grounds our body when we connect to it. I thought I’d try it this morning and go lay out on the grass in my backyard. OMG it felt good! It reminded me of when I was a teenager and would lay out on the beach and fall asleep after a long swim in the cold water. The heat from the sun felt so good! They say that when children play outside that they are recipients of this good energy and it makes them a lot happier. ❤️

10/16/2024

Here is a good article someone else wrote, about her experience on hurricane Katrina and how that might shown us our likely trajectory.:

“Hey, WNC, New Orleans native here. We see you.
All I can tell you is my own experience:
The first few days, weeks, are mostly shock. Everything you were worried about 2 days ago is now completely irrelevant.
The shock may come and go. Feeling like a zombie. Dissociating. Thinking you’re “totally fine” and then immediately wondering what’s wrong with you.
Being furious at people near and far. Short tempers. Even if you are an otherwise gentle person, you might find yourself saying very unkind things.
Your nervous system takes over. Your trauma response is revealing itself.
For me, I went into WORK mode. I HAD to be at the center of everything. I was back in the city before we were technically allowed. I basically never stopped working, although my job was far from first responding.
This happened again during Ida. I was evacuated for 10 days, and spent hours every day gathering & distributing info, working with a mutual aid group.
In three weeks, you will see the first working stop light and you will get misty eyed. You will be grateful for EVERYTHING.
Emotion will overwhelm you, and everyone you know, at any moment and everyone will understand.
For the next year, every time you see someone for the first time, you’ll give them a huge bear hug and ask “how’d you do? Where’d you go?”
It will not be normal for a long time. Years. Your life will forever be measured in before and after.
Every conversation will be about Helene until you are tired of hearing the word. You’ll be desperate To talk about ANYTHING else.
At some point, you’ll realize a whole day went by without mentioning Her. It’s simultaneous relief and frustration.
Survivors guilt is real. You will compare your losses, and always think “but they had it worse.”
You will share an unspoken bond with people who lived through it. 20 years from now, when you meet someone who lives in WNC, it will be like meeting family. You will share stories, bc the people who weren’t there just cannot understand.
There is no right thing to do right now. If you have to get out, get out. If you cannot bear to leave, don’t.
If you need help, reach out. DM me. Call the disaster hotline (800-985-5990).
Take all the help you can get. File for FEMA. Take disaster food stamps. Let people send you care packages.
It really is as horrible as you think, but you cannot bear it all at once. Just keep going, one day — some days one breath at a time”
- Author: Vera Lester

10/13/2024

I want to share a little bit of tranquility with my Facebook friends tonight. ❤️

09/25/2024

"Cottage By the Sea" I painted this as a present from one sister to another. Their mother had wanted to life by the sea before she passed. She had gotten a terminal diagnosis, and the girls helped her find her home by the sea where she had her last 6 happy years! When she passed she said she would leave them daisies and ladybugs. So that when they saw them, they would know that she was close by. It was fun doing this commission! 🥰

09/23/2024

I started going to A Course in Miracle meetings again. OMG…. Be still my heart!❤️

09/17/2024

I think that my thoughts create my reality. That concept is a huge responsibility and discipline, but with that responsibility, comes great freedom too. I love this idea from Abraham:

"Look for things that you appreciate where you are. It will put you in a place of perfect allowing, even when you are not yet manifesting all that you want. “There are many people right now experiencing the dream that is coming for me, who were at one time standing right where I’m standing. I’m right on track. There is not anything amiss here. Everything is unfolding perfectly. I am perfect where I am and gravitating to something that will satisfy me even more.” That’s the attitude that lets it expand."

09/15/2024

This is my booth at Woolworths with my new sunflower painting in it.💕

08/03/2024

There’s nothing like a little relaxation on the beach! 🙏❤️❤️

07/06/2024

Many many years ago, two groundhogs sat on an empty field which in years to come would be the center of New York City. One said to the other, “what if there could be a huge city here full of excitement, Art and commerce!?“

The other groundhog said, “no, that’s impossible. “

The first groundhog said, “why “?

The second groundhog said, “because there’s never been a city here like that before. “

The first groundhog looked blank as he thought about it And he answered, “oh “.

(Moral of the story: just because an independent hasn’t won before, doesn’t mean they never will.)❤️