“Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.” – Marcel Proust
The waves of summer’s happenings are going swimmingly here at HQ, where everyday is a 5 star day, the studio feels like a spa, and co-conspirator rhymes [...]

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“When someone quotes the old poetic image / about clouds gradually uncovering the moon, / slowly loosen knot by knot the strings / of your robe. / Like this.” [...]

“Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn’t mean only artistic creativity, although that’s part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.” – Matt Groening
Twenty Eleven has me facing my fear of heights here at the studio, where I’ve been enamored by [...]

“Are you barely breathing and calling it a life?” Mary Oliver
We’ve been stepping up our time on the mat here at HQ, where things have been transpiring in the substratum of our beingness as of late, and we’ve been told our handwriting looks like an ancient text. Paired with a good starlit sit on the [...]

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” – Leonardo da Vinci
We keep holy the daily hike and put romaine and avocados in our smoothies here at HQ, because our creative bones are the anatomy [...]

The whole world as we experience it visually comes to us through the mystic realm of color.” – Hans Hofmann
The sweet, sweet beauty that’s been pouring out of the studio over the past year – heck, the past week – is almost too much to keep to myself.
I invite you to come visit, this Saturday Morning, [...]

“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the object it loves.” – Carl Jung
Enchanting things happen at the edges here at headquarters, where (rumor has it) I’ve uttered ‘You had me at permaculture’ to potential suitors. One [...]

The clock may be a soulless mechanism, but gift of time and presence light up the sky like divine revelation here at Auspicious Projects, where our desserts taste like 3 days of love on a spoon.
We vow to be awesome in every relationship, at interactions both digital and fleshy, which means being lit up and [...]

“I think one’s art goes as far and as deep as one’s love goes.” – Andrew Wyeth
Love is mixed throughout our body in the ever expanding universe at HQ, as it feeds our burning desires round the clock, and in other dimensions of the space-time continuum, as we feel into one of our favorite maxims: [...]

“Life is to be felt, not just figured out.” – Thomas Hardy
Things are always moving here at the headquarters of all things auspicious, even if we are “still but still moving.” The intuitive lifeforce has its way with our inner starfire (since light is the desire of the universe), and lately, we can’t ignore the [...]