by Ivette Ebaen
Art Dolls Creating A Healing Response: When I was a child I made dolls out of pipe-cleaners, clothes pins, hair pins, twigs, matchsticks, toothpicks, even a plastic spoon. I’d take a walnut shell and imagine it a tub, a boat, a crib for one of my teeny-weenie stick figures. I’d spend hours dressing their figures, binding their frames with strips of newspaper, blades of… Read More
April 17, 2017 + Archives, featured, Painting, Reflections of A Golden I
by Ivette Ebaen
Spring Into Easter It started with the creation of the world. God raised his hand and blessed everything that entered his imagination: everything He thought and sensed humankind would need and love. I’ve heard it said that the word Easter originated from the time when Eostre, the pagan goddess of spring was said to rule over fertility, abundance, the renewal and rebirth of all… Read More
April 13, 2017 + Archives, Articles, featured, SoulCollage
by Ivette Ebaen
SoulCollage® and the Misunderstood Shadow Many SoulCollage® participants fill their decks with beautiful, happy images, which are true of them, but hesitate when it comes to making a Shadow card that fosters change, transformation, and offers healing. During a recent workshop a client, J. M. takes me aside and asks if after class we can talk about a particular card he has… Read More
by Ivette Ebaen
The Bonfire, by Kunikida Doppo (1871-1908) Many years ago, I read Kunikida Doppo’s short story, The Bonfire, and fell in love with his writing. Written like haiku, in length it is a slice of poetic verse; a story dense with unforgettable imagery. I found this translation online, listed as a work in Public Domain. After reading this version, once again I was inspired by… Read More
March 21, 2017 + Archives, Articles, featured, SoulCollage
by Ivette Ebaen
SoulCollage® Make It Relevant Someone I loved once gave me a box of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift. Mary Oliver Pain. We all experience it. No one gets away without it in life if we want to evolve spiritually. Pain, and seeing others in pain ripens the heart for lessons in compassionate humility…. Read More
March 5, 2017 + Archives, Articles, featured, haiku, Reflections of A Golden I
by Ivette Ebaen
Lent: Make It Relevant This is a time of year when our Inner Monk cries out for attention. It is the season of hibernation, of contemplation and reflection. A time to consider retreat and rest from the activities of the world. We give ourselves space from the desert we’ve been living, so we can turn and find nourishment in the cell of our… Read More
by Ivette Ebaen
Pauses: A Book of Hours, Flipbook In the Middle Ages, little prayer books like this were lavishly illustrated, leather bound, sacred, and secretly kept from public view. One attended to God in the quiet cell of one’s heart; paying respect and pausing to contemplate and meditate on the seven canonical hours: Vigils, Matins, Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers with Compline, throughout the… Read More
February 20, 2017 + Archives, Articles, featured, Photography, SoulCollage
by Ivette Ebaen
A Digital SoulCollage® Vision Quest When Seena Frost conceived of SoulCollage® as a hands-on process the age of digital image-making was at its infancy, or in some circles unheard of. Even so, an image is an image, and in comparison when going digital, is the end result the same? Positive images whether collaged, drawn, painted, quilted, photographed, or digitally composed, stimulate… Read More
by Ivette Ebaen
Ten Stanzas from Shantideva’s Full Acceptance of the Awakening Mind Text translation by Stephen Batchelor. Photo montages created by Ivette Ebaen.
February 2, 2017 + Archives, Articles, featured, SoulCollage
by Ivette Ebaen
“Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, Something helpless that wants our love.” Rainier Maria Rilke, Letters To A Young Poet Valentine, the priest, became a saint after he was beheaded on February 14th, when Third Century Rome, ruled by Emperor Claudius forbade soldiers to marry yet Valentine married them anyway. Whether or not the tale is true that Valentine… Read More
