The work is the process, The process is the pathway. It's really that simple Letting go Surrendering to the unenforceable Trusting the...

It is that time...2023 Reflect Envision Decide Implement Focus Soften Allow Define Embrace Burn away Build again Burn away Build again Light finds a way no matter the darkness Vera

Tuesday was my 6 year anniversary of moving to Maine. Yesterday I remembered that at 18 I moved to Seattle from Ohio to attend Seattle...

I am back from my mini vacation. I'm trying to not jump into a million things like I tend to do. I've been operating under a "sense of...

In 1999 I took my first blacksmithing class with Scott Shattuck at South Seattle community College. I signed up for the welding class...

Gratitude For changes, for growth, for direction 🙏 Getting back to basics Focusing on my relationship with the God of my understanding. Taking time to reflect upon my own choices, decisions and behaviors to make certain I'm doing my part. Turning my life over, embracing willingness to be led to the next right thing. Going to meetings, talking with others, reasoning things out. Trusting I am grateful... *For relationships that support each other's growth and journey. *For s

Tonight grief hit me like a ton of bricks. I had a breakdown/breakthrough it’s October 23, 2019.... 20 years ago today I got married, but...

And...out of the blue I get this email...🥰🥰🥰 Hi Vera!!! So glad it’s you! I found you by looking up Village Green to find your article...

The questions that I get asked the most is “Will it Tarnish?” and “How do I care for my copper jewelry?”. The answer to the first...

It cut deeply Noone could see it I couldn't see it. Smoothed over Glossy and almost Invisible Many moons passed Dozens of ships sailed...

Found myself ambling about today. Lost yet completely found in the absence of humans. It's humbling to be amongst such absolute beauty. ...

Deep thoughts... what IF... we learn differently...we interpret differently...we think differently...we pray differently... Aren’t people literally arguing about/standing up for/against hate and discrimination? The ones who scream the loudest for changes seem to hate or be the most angry... I personally know my anger towards changing things didn’t work AT ALL...but I definitely learned to push people away with my demands for justice and change. My current approach (to the bes

The cutaways are the spaces I see more clearly. The shells and leftovers. The Emptiness. The discarded, bent, broken, hollow pieces leftover from what was used up and discarded. The potential for love to fill it up is the part I see. Loved Whole again by assembling with more misfit hollows to create the most imaginatively beautiful possible combination. Vera This wall is an example. Leftover pieces from a sculpture commission I made here at my Home Studio in Maine

we reflect each other

To Breathe in Big Open spaces Birch Trees Pure White Renewal Simplicity Explore new Skills To Challenge myself to Grow I was handed the...

Fungi grows out of rotting matter. With a profoundly wondrous ability to transform toxins into something useful, is a mystery in and of itself. Humans have the capacity to do the same. Might this be due to the fact that we are Each others closest relatives? If I'd known yesterday what I know today...we lament as we remedy behaviors to not repeat the same mistakes. Who might we need to plant seeds of renewal and hope with? Where will I course-correct to set my plan of acti

Birches represent Renewal and purification. I only just recently discovered this and It made me start thinking back on how I’ve been drawn to them since I first visited Maine in 1998, with my daughter and soon to be husband. The New England woods were a sight for an Ohio girl transplanted to the West coast then years later to the East coast. As a child In Ohio, the trees I grew up around were mostly Black Walnut, Catalpa, Maple, Mulberry, Oak, Hickory, Willow and Cherry. I

History and the moment I’m in....As I travel-I go back in time in my mind and stay present to what is. Love and cherish these days with...

Seed of Life The Seed of Life is an ancient symbol of great spiritual and religious importance. It can be found in many places around the...

Crunching snow, deer look on, Wandering the path alongside you in the quiet hush.It's the breath, the balance.I saw life, I saw...