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Home to Love
2/10/2010 Sun, sea and sand, walk, promenade, food, risotto, red wine, camera, waiter, hats. The feast of the moment. We are in the...
Ellen Michel
Jun 5, 20221 min read


The Universe
The window where I sit, Is the place where all thought and, contemplation comes. Speaking to me through the trees, the birds and sky. The...
Ellen Michel
Jun 5, 20221 min read


Pure White Light
Always searching for the beauty, and the colour of a rainbow. We look out there, only to realise, we are wearing it, as a beautiful...
Ellen Michel
Jun 5, 20221 min read


Following and Following and Following
Following and following and following, All the days crawl on bended knees, Into the abyss of hollow shadows, Returning and returning,...
Ellen Michel
Jun 5, 20221 min read


Celebrating Courage and Resilience this Christmas, December 2012
Tragedy befell my blackbird’s mate last year about this time. I wept to find its feathers strewn about the garden. Its mate frantically...
Ellen Michel
Jun 5, 20221 min read


The Persistence of Memory, by Salvador Dali
One of the best-known pieces of Surrealist art John Welford 5 days ago·4 min read Salvador Dali (1904–89) was the leading Surrealist...
Ellen Michel
May 4, 20224 min read


Stones
The stones in the ancient creek bed, Are there to teach us about the birdsong, and to know I am not alone. One Village One Life.
Ellen Michel
Apr 29, 20221 min read


Painting in Nature
Belying this dry brown place, Green Lake you draw me in, your fertile bog, moist and dark, a crucible of stirring primal life.
Ellen Michel
Apr 20, 20221 min read


Japanese Flute Player
Out of the mist of time, The poppies dance, drifting into the painting, on a sweet note.
Ellen Michel
Apr 19, 20221 min read


Mountains Inspire.
Mountains inspire, Lovers save the world, relinking the stars to the beauty of you.
Ellen Michel
Apr 19, 20221 min read


Bottles and Things
Why paint onions, bottles and things? If not for fquiet reflection, in quiet corners, But to unearth the essence, of their unique design,...
Ellen Michel
Apr 17, 20221 min read


The Thunder Dragon.
As mountains roar, above valleys cupped in dew, the Thunder Dragon, rises to the Tigers Nest, armed in scales of truth, burnished by the...
Ellen Michel
Apr 17, 20221 min read


Astonishment.
Astonishment befitting. How did these images, sated to canvas arrive at this place, in this lifetime? I marvel.
Ellen Michel
Apr 17, 20221 min read


A Tent at the Foreshore.
Longing to be embraced by the bush, We attempt to show an outwad expression, with structures of homage to the sacred. A tent at the...
Ellen Michel
Apr 17, 20221 min read


Chain of Being
There is no chain of being, I am enfolded largesse, Enfolded in your glad heart, wrapped, on this beaming sunny day.
Ellen Michel
Apr 17, 20221 min read


The Bare Path
Ground laid bare, By sun and rain, And seeds in darkness, Rise again to flower.
Ellen Michel
Apr 17, 20221 min read


Quan Yin - mountain mother
She sits in stillness, the holy mountain mother, while I act whirling around in thought and doing, moving around the mountain, like the...
Ellen Michel
Apr 15, 20221 min read


Between Earth and Sky
Between earth and sky we stand. We are mediators, conduits ,and guardians of this planet. We walk, our feet on the earth, our heads...
Ellen Michel
Apr 14, 20221 min read


Enlightened One
Your lightweight feathery body, defying gravity, Is miraculous to one, whose feet are made of clay. You evoke in me, something of the...
Ellen Michel
Apr 11, 20221 min read


Flags of Hope
Many prayer flags, and prayer wheels spinning, blowing in the breeze, they say to the traveler, 'One step is a prayer, take one step at a...
Ellen Michel
Apr 11, 20221 min read
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