Dear Yogis,

During Covid we studied Rumi – what a wonderful journey that was.  I found this and popped it in as a reminder that seemed quite appropriate seeing we are studying the Gita (again), and looking at the Gita Cards (which make the study easier).

I Have finished the painting  (oil pastel drawing) “WE COME FROM THE STARS”.  Keeping in mind that in the Qur’an it is said that every soul has a star, I have painted this with that idea in my mind.  No-one is ever “lost” – you can look up into the heavens, and your special person is not lost, gone, passed or forgotten, there is a star for them.

Having completed the angels from the stars, I am beginning a portrait of KRISHNA.  I started with a miniature, and now I am working on an actual canvas.  I will show you the canvas when I have got it to a place you can see it and will understand.

Everything I am doing now is towards the opening of my studio gallery.  It is a long time since I had an official gallery at my home and studio, and when I have gotten this all together, I will have Monthly open days with special exhibitions and previews.  When I did have art shows years ago – we started in the studio on the corner of Aitken and Hamilton Street, Gisborne  (I had the only penthouse in town), it was not very professional, but we did have lots of nibbles and buckets of champers (there was no .05 in those days).  My art shows were celebrations.

If you want a personal invitation to our first exhibition preview (the Friday evening of the weekend prior to Valentines Day), please let me know.  The preview will be by INVITATION ONLY – you will have the first opportunity to buy, then my gallery will be open the following Saturday and Sunday afternoon for the public.  It is a tiny gallery, so there will not be masses of artwork, every painting will be special, with a special meaning.  I am busy organising lighting, hanging.  The hardest part is thinking exactly how to make my cards accessible (you can’t hang them, and they have to be able to be seen) – Cards are an opportunity for everyone to have a tiny print able to be framed.

By the way – I am sure you have noticed.  IGA has started to put out Easter buns!!! Don’t know about you, but I haven’t got around to last Christmas yet.

NAMASTE.  JAHNE

 

Hi Yogis,

Hope you are having an “interesting” holiday.  Yesterday I worked in the garden in the morning – the sun was shining.  I then decided about lunch time to do a speed shop before I settled down to paint.  As I was racing around the supermarket, the sky broke and rain pelted down.  I had parked under a tree but some way away.  As I was standing under the supermarket verandah, a lady came up to me and asked me where I was parked.  I indicated and she said “my husband has gone for the car, when he comes back I will get hime to walk you to your car with an umbrella”.

Little things happen unexpectedly, that’s why we live in a community.

 

LOVE AND BLESSINGS.  JAHNE

DearYogis,

I slept in yesterday after a late nite and midnite mass.  I rarely sleep in.  I did last month after a busy week of deadlines, and again yesterday, but i feel great – and I love the rain even though it means I can’t Christmas by the pond.  I am writing this (and painting on tea bags and on canvas) instead.

During Covid I sent you a newsletter every day, and now although there is no covid, there is an epidemic of anxiety, and i do have a way that you can change your life if like me you worry.  I used to be hugely anxious, I think my life would have been very different if I had known this key.  Well I had the key I just didn’t trust it would work.  What is it? It is easy!  My life has changed since i started really TALKING TO GOD, and more importantly TAKING NOTICE OF THE ANSWERS even if i think they make no sense at the time.

I remember years ago visiting a friend who was painting her house.  When I arrived she was standing quietly looking at an unpainted wall and various cans of paint waiting to be opened.  I asked her what she was waiting for and she replied “I have asked God what colour to use and I am waiting for an answer” then having received an answer started to direct the way the wall was to be painted.

In a way it was the same as Margrit Segesman “waiting for a breath”.  At the time, painting the wall I thought, how ridiculous!  God hasn’t got time to help with paint colours!  Now I know how liberating it can be if we will make friends with that still small voice, and 1. consult it for every little thing and then 2.  do what the voice says!  Yes, God (?) does have time and wants to help you with paint colours, and every other little decision in your life.  Imagine if you could have a trusted advisor with you at all times – well, you can and you have.  You are not listening…   Remember what I told you all through Covid – “Nothing can happen that is not the Will of God – trust this”.

Yesterday I spoke to a friend about a bird.  A thirsty little bird lands in an unseasonally icy field.  She doesn’t grumble and groan, or feel hard done by, or say “why me”, neither does she think of Christmas past, or yesterday.  She just sits conserving her energy as best she can until the sun rises (which she somehow knows it will) drinks the water provided by the melting frost, sings, and flies away.

Have a lovely Christmas dinner – the weather is perfect for yule logs, and big roasts.  Remember that children are drip dry and love getting wet and muddy.  So much more fun than sitting in front of a computer.  

Call me when you are ready for your tarot…..You can have a report on line and hard copy booklet sent to you (opportunities, lessons, challenges). Let me know if this interests you yogafirst2@bigpond.com   NAMASTE – JAHNE