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River Rocks for Helen

March 3rd, 2010 — 9:39am

I just finished this piece and I love it, I loved making it. I’m going to start making my ‘rockpiles’ again. I made this for my friend Helen Rosenfeld. She wanted to ‘buy a piece’. She’s given me a little money down. I had no idea what to make her. She likes intimate, natural stuff.

I thought she’d like one of my ‘functional rocks’, a little one that fits right in your hand like a baby bird. One that opens, is lined with Juniper so you can smell it and that is so finished it feels like a baby’s butt – soothing, comforting. Then the piece just grew.

She has 3 ‘kids’ – in their 50’s. So I made it into 3 sections. I’m bringing it over to her today. I’ll show her the individual rocks first and then the whole piece. She may or may not like it. If she doesn’t I’ll bring it to the show. Continue reading »

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Greybee Light Catcher is Gone

February 10th, 2010 — 11:48am

We had the most adorable kitty. His name was Greybee Light Catcher because he went from Grey to White (Light) and he was a baby. So the name ‘Greybee Light’. And then he became an incredible Catcher. When he caught his first mouse he was so excited. When he discovered where he lived! you could see the wild in his eyes, he could barely contain himself. You could see his eyes – wide – and practically hear his thoughts. “Oh boy, I can go in and out anytime I want. I can be cuddled and loved and fed inside and at night I can go outside and catch mice, yummy bunnies, anything I want! I can run and jump and be all I can be. I am a wild kitty!” At night he’d drag in mice through the upstairs window, across my bed and play with them on the living room floor before he ate them. The other night he brought in a baby bunny.

Greybee was sweet and adorable. He’d follow Smarty around and annoy him. He had a special pillow in our living room and during the winter he’d sleep in the warm sunlight in the office, on top of all my papers, next to Smarty. He slept on Paul’s left side for a few hours at night before he went out. (Smarty sleeps on my right side!) I would pick him up and love him up – he was so soft and cute – but only for a few seconds before he jumped out of my arms. He was getting wilder and wilder. Sophie thought he was Greybee’s Mom and she’d lick him and lick him and smell him and smell him until she knew he was clean.

Greybee didn’t come home last night – or the night before. He was gone all day yesterday. Continue reading »

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Valentine’s Day – Hearts Forever

January 28th, 2010 — 4:24pm

EVERY DAY IS VALENTINES DAY!

'In Good Company'

These individually hand carved Alabaster Gem Hearts are about honoring the Earth, recognizing ourselves as part of the Earth, healing our own Hearts and Heart connections. To hold one is to feel comforted, cared for, loved. They remind us that we are part of an infinitely varied, wondrous Universe, that we both, the Alabaster Gem Hearts and us humans and all life are born of the same stardust.

Should I say what’s truly on my mind or not………..Oh, what the heck…….I will……….

For 35 years Paul and I have hand gathered rare colored and translucent Alabaster Gems from the great Deserts of the Southwest. We climb over canyon walls, pry cherished pieces of rare gemstone out of cliff faces, harvest treasures hiding in secret Earth places. Just us. No machines.

This is not a ‘rape of the Earth’ mining operation that rips the skin and bowels of our planet apart for profit. There is no factory of slaves, over the border sweat shops, abuse of human rights or Mother Earth. It’s just Paul and me, gathering this rare gem Alabaster and handcarving each piece to reveal its unique and extravagant beauty.

We are about honoring the Earth and making an honest living with our hands and hearts. We are about the sacredness of life and the gift of the creative process that has captured us for so long. We are about sharing with others all these gifts that we have received and created.

Alabaster is stone. It is gem. It is forever. Maybe the Alabaster Gem Heart that you purchase for your loved one who passes it onto their children, who passes it onto their children……will last forever too. “Hearts Forever”!

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“Gemstone Alabaster”

January 27th, 2010 — 12:43pm

"The Wedding Ring"' - Gemstone Bowl for elegant, Engagement, Wedding and Anniversary Present

According to the American Gem Trade Association (AGTA), a gemstone is defined as any stone that is colorful, translucent and that can take a high polish. Alabaster is such a rare gemstone. Beloved for centuries around the world, prized in museum collections showing ancient Chinese and Egyptian treasures, shockingly, Alabaster has been an all but forgotten material in this country! As Alabaster Master Paul Hawkins says, “we replaced this precious gemstone in our country with industrialism and plastic”. We are reviving this magnificent material known as “The Queen of Stones”.

The moment I saw the diversity of colored and translucent Alabasters on Paul’s show table in July of 1976 I fell in love with it’s elegance, variety and beauty. Paul and I share a mutual love of this gemstone and have found great joy in bringing out it’s beauty, playing with its possibilities. Our shared service to this gemstone in the name beauty and preserving and honoring this precious material is the something larger than ourselves that has propelled and given deeper meaning to our life – along with our children.

Paul carved this gemstone White Alabaster Bowl that we call “The Wedding Ring”, inlaid it with the rarest of gemstone Orange Alabaster and extravagantly topped it with a magnificent Amythest Crystal onlaid with the finest of Uruguan Amythest crystal cluster. The piece is 10″ High X 12″ Wide X 10″ Deep. It would not be difficult to imagine this being the perfect engagement or wedding gift.

Each piece we make is uniquely and lovingly carved for that someone special who will fall in love with it. Impossible to repeat, because each stone has it’s own story, this original art form truly honors this magnificent Gemstone – Alabaster.

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37th Wedding Anniversary Gift – Alabaster

February 9th, 2009 — 12:00pm

Illumined Handcarved Alabaster Bowl

The number 37 in numerology adds up to the number 10 and a 10 is a new beginning. If you’ve made it to your 37^th wedding anniversary then you will be happy to know that you have arrived at a new beginning! So many years, so much learned, you can now go on to relax into the deep familiarity and comfort you have created with each other.

The number 3 is about relationship. One and one is two but together they add up to more than just each other, they are more than the sum of their parts. Which explains why the number three represents relationship. The number 7 is about magic. So when the numbers 3 and 7 add up they are not only about new beginnings, they are about beginning anew in magical relationship ! In a way, this 37 is the year of the newly wed! All the relationship difficulties that all couples go through in terms of learning about themselves and each other and themselves in relation to each other are under your belt. It is said that mastery requires 10,000 hours of work. In a work environment 10,000 hours equals one year! 37 years is well on your way to quadruple mastery in your marriage! You are now officially MASTERS in your relation with each other! Continue reading »

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Alabaster Rose – the “Golden-Pink Sunset Rose”

February 7th, 2009 — 11:08am

"Golden-Pink Sunset Rose"

Alabaster is the only material on the planet that truly describes Roses that look like they’re blowing in the wind. In no other stone can you find reflected the softness, color and translucency of a Rose. In my thirty-three years as a professional Alabaster carver, I have carved nineteen Alabaster Roses. People do walk up to smell them! Alabaster and Rose are a perfect match of material and form. This “Golden-Pink Sunset Rose” is the newest, the most technically extreme of them all and is carved from the very rarest of translucent pink and green Alabasters.

The “Golden-Pink Sunset Rose” will debut and be showcased at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Club Show in Tucson, Arizona from February 12th to 15th at the Tucson Convention Center.

Dimensionally this piece is 20″ High X 14″ Wide X 12″ Deep. It is priced at $150,000.00. It must be hand delivered.

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Divine Illumination

February 3rd, 2009 — 1:17pm

'DIVINE ILLUMINATION'

When these handcarved large Alabaster bowls are lit they transcend their form and become ‘Divine Illumined Beings’. Their peaceful and powerful presence is undeniable. A sense of wonder dances about them. Questions arise about their true origins. Like celestial beings, they carry messages that speak to us about our most profound questions. They speak of beauty, majesty and mystery.

Where did they come from? Materially, they are the evaporate of ancient inland seas, they are petrified water, carved. How did these luminous bowls come into being? Through the intention, vision and hands of a master who is willing to persevere through extreme challenge carving to achieve and reveal the essence of the stone. Only remarkable love, passion and dedication can meet this task. Continue reading »

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Watered Down Stimulus Package!

January 29th, 2009 — 12:35pm

When it rains - a larger perspective

Obama, we the people elected you because of your promise of change in the ways we need change from dealing with and caring about the environment to healing the profound wounds to our constitution and legal system that were inflicted during the Bush-Cheney regime to healing and bringing balance and oversight back into the financial system to repowering our country with alternative renewable energy sources to rethinking and reconstructing our food and health delivery systems to promotes health for the Earth and for the people to bringing to justice the people who abused our laws and justice system in the past eight year debacle to………….the problems we need to address are endless. We have suffered long enough under the weight of conservative fears and limited perspectives. We need new expanded vision enacted immediately to save this planet and to help all of us who are, have been or will be suffering from the greedy, short-sighted, uninspired, fear based ideas and people who have been in power. How dare you spend time negotiating with Republicans who had so much responsibility for bringing about the dark reality we and the whole world are living in today especially when you have all the majority you need. We elected you to move, to act now on all that is so pressing. We have had it with watered down, ineffective, legislation and action. We need an effective leader and leadership who honestly address the massive problems facing us. We do not need more politics. The old ways are dead in the water. Continue reading »

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Friends Like Helen

January 27th, 2009 — 6:51pm

Helen and 'Dilemma' Bond

I consider Helen a close and dear friend and I am honored to say so. I love her for all kinds of reasons which I’ll list shortly but right now I must tell you how and the setting in which we met because it gives insight into both of us.

I am Jewish, I was raised Jewish in Fall River, Massachusetts. My father was a ‘pillar of the community’. My grandparents migrated from Russia, fleeing persecution. I feel a committment to all those who have gone before me. I feel a committment to all those who go ahead of me. So, even though I am a strict spiritualist, not religious at all and not a practicing Jew (even though I vibrate Jewish), I raised my kids with a Jewish education and participated in the creation of a Jewish community in Sedona and the Verde Valley of Arizona where I live. I needed to pass on the heritage and all that that implies onto my kids. I was compelled. Which is what brought me to the Friday night service at which I met Helen for the first time. Continue reading »

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HAPPY INAUGUARATION DAY!!

January 20th, 2009 — 4:18pm

Oh My G-d! How good is today? The nightmare is gone. We have awakened in a new reality. A reality of kindness and vision and gentleness. This day of Barack Hussein Obama’s inauguration feels like a seed change to me, a shift of the deepest kind. This moment marks our chance to save our Earth, our opportunity to bring dreams of living on the Earth and with each other into harmony and right relationship.

We the people have taken and been given back our voice. After years of having given our voices up, sold ourselves off to the devil and gleaned the consequences from doing so, we are and have the possibility of being empowered again. So I speak up now and invite all to do the same. My intention is for this blog to become a portal of expression and activism. It’s what I can do.

This past weekend we did the Carefree, Arizona Art and Wine Festival. The weekend before the election! I was pleased and surprised to see the place packed and people interested. It feels like warmth returning from a deep freeze on all useful activity. Souls reentering after the deadness of the Bush-Cheney imprisonment. Did you see? Cheney couldn’t even walk out on his own today and I can only imagine and hope that Bush felt mortally embarrassed at the billions around the Earth who celebrated his exit. Ding Dong the Witch is Dead!

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