a simple creature
by Allison Schultz
I am here -
present
a gift.
an unlettered map of the
fallen starfragment
tracing a story in the earth
about a dream becoming true
at the edge of transformation and wonder.
a body of work
soft animal fur and pink
wired, electric desiring beyond my edges of
percipient perceptible flesh
attuning perception reception inside outside as above so below
pulsing at the center [...]

Summer turned on a few nights ago here in Boulder as the nights took the days warmth to bed. I love the warmy-spot of summer and how it makes my muscles feel so loose and so free. There’s an inherent ease with these warmer months. I am loving the evening walks, the evening sends, swinging [...]

“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 [...]

A story of desire, and of cute underwear, 5″ heels, manifesting dreams, and striding out in your own brand of sustainable lifestyle design.
Vision boards are common parlance in the visual life of my outer dreamscapes, adhered to the growing pages of my sacred black hard-bound journals, and often posted here. In the last edition [...]

“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 [...]

“When you transcend light, all you see is an illusion.”
I crossed “body photography” off my 2010 to-do list last year on Thanksgiving. It was a day of luminous flow to celebrate the body with yoga, chocolate and some ceremonial singing bowl before the body of work happening began.
I’ve always been rather comfortable in my body, [...]

How often are we grateful for all of ourselves? All of the magic that is us and our exquisite, unique experience in this lifetime?
I’m not known for my modesty – and can generally follow a compliment with “yeah, I know! isn’t that rad?!” – but that’s not to say that there’s a shallow aire of [...]

Love.Life.Art.Work. was nominated as a featured blog on www.denverspark.com – a growing shoutout / spotlight for the well-voiced creative collective of established and emerging local (Boulder-Denver Metroplex) writers and blog keepers. I’m so amped, I feel like a starlet.