Flower Mandalas

Flower Mandalas

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Call for Healing/Transformative/Spiritual Art

Illustration from William Blake’s The Book of Job, “When the morning stars sang together…” This is a call, to you from me, for art (in the broadest sense of the term — visual, literary, popular, 3-D, multimedia, musical, performing, etc.) [...]

Cultivating Your Creative Self #1: An Invitation to Boldness

Bud Howard Gardner describes the early years of our childhoods as the Golden Age of Creativity. He observes that a five to seven year old child “sings while drawing, dances while singing, tells stories while playing.” Some of us maintain [...]

Pink Fall Rose I and Cynthia Lee

Pink Fall Rose I Rose Wearing Ragged Rose wearing ragged round the edges, your petals dingy, brown mottled and pocked, do not grieve your lost beauty and perfection for truly your sullied shell your outer ring of decay and death [...]

White Lily III, the Diatonic Scale, and Artistic Collaboration

White Lily III A year ago, an online magazine called Science Creative Quarterly, physically located at the University of British Columbia, ran a contest using 12 of my flower mandala images, one for each month of the new year. Readers [...]

Previous Posts

Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas: "Mistakes: Alchemy"
NOTE: This is the first draft of the "Mistakes" essay in my forthcoming book, Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas. Responses and comments welcome, no matter how brief. Mistakes: Alchemy Copyright 2013 David J. Bookbinder Many of my older clients are disturbed by what they see as lost opportunities, wr

posted 12:19:52am May. 21, 2013 | read full post »

Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas on Wattpad.com!
I've "published" the 39 chapters of Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas that I've created so far on Wattpad.com. Wattpad lets you read through the book like ... a book! As always, comments welcome. Here's what I have so far: http://www.wattpad.com/story/5697085-fifty-two-flower-mandalas More anon, Da

posted 10:41:46pm May. 19, 2013 | read full post »

Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas: "Miracles: Yellow brick roads"
NOTE: This is the first draft of the "Miracles" essay in my forthcoming book, Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas. Responses and comments welcome, no matter how brief. Miracles: Yellow brick roads Copyright 2013 David J. Bookbinder I am a miracle worker by trade. Or more precisely, a facilitator of mi

posted 11:21:47pm May. 08, 2013 | read full post »

Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas: "Love: Essentials" (first draft)
NOTE: This is the first draft of the "Love" essay in my forthcoming book, Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas. Responses and comments welcome, no matter how brief. Love: Essentials Copyright 2013 David J. Bookbinder When I was 25, living in Manhattan and trying to jump start a career in writing and ph

posted 10:31:25am May. 03, 2013 | read full post »

Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas: "Longing: Inclinations"
NOTE: This is the first draft of the "Longing" essay in my forthcoming book, Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas. Responses and comments welcome, no matter how brief. Longing: Inclinations Copyright 2013 David J. Bookbinder A writer I knew some years ago collected her poems into a book she planned to

posted 7:21:18am Apr. 24, 2013 | read full post »


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