Focus on creating peace. In your life, in your habits, in your speech, in the way you treat yourself and others. Peace truly begins at home. When we can remember to do this, it ripples out far beyond us. If we want peace, we have to BE peace. Are we tired of chaos yet? As […]
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POINTY STARS
When I was a kid, I looked up in the sky and wondered if the stars were pointy. Would they stick or sting me if I touched them? Were they poisonous? Thinking about that made me sad. So I decided stars were kind, and would let me ride on them. I made hundreds of drawings […]
CRAZY LAFFY FAT CATZ
I’ve been so upset about all the weird happenings in the world. I don’t remember any time in my life when so many catastrophic things have happened all at once – and continued on and on and on, for bloody weeks at a time. From massive numbers of devastating fires all over the whole planet […]
UFO FLER
This got its name when I saw how this design came out looking like stacked UFOs! I’ve always been interested in aliens and UFOs and all that – so this reminded me of when I lived in Santa Cruz, California, in the mid-1960s. I saw an article in the local paper with the headline: ALIENS […]
I COULDN’T GET UP
I couldn’t believe how weak I’ve become. Scared the hell out of me. When they built this house, someone thought it was a good idea to make the bathroom door narrower than a regular door. My walker is too wide and unwieldly to get inside. So I have to park it, edge into the doorway […]
FINALLY CAUGHT HIM!
He was right outside my door. Sometimes I can really be Not Nice. My cross-the-walk neighbor, who has whole hands of black thumbs and wouldn’t know a green thumb* if she saw one, never waters the big pot of what-could-be beautiful but are all shriveled-up succulents just to the side of her door stoop. Since […]
HE’S A DREAM KILLER
Some people are Dream Killers. I know how to stop them, now. Tonight I made the mistake of telling ‘Ben’ about my little non-formed-yet, very vague dream/idea of going back to live in Hawaii again. Some people you just have to not tell. I forgot he was one of them. We had been having a […]
DEARIE DEER CELEBRATES
Last night a fellow pattern designer said, Angela, we need to ramp up for Q4 and the holidays! My first response was inner collapse. I was surprised! Why on earth??? When I looked at the feeling I had, it was called oh-no-more-work-I’m-tired-I-don’t-have-the-energy. That surprised me even more, because I love to draw, I love to […]
STOP GAGGING ON PILLS
Swallowing pills makes me gag. Here’s how I fixed that. Taking pills is one of my least favorite thing, ever. They catch in my throat and choke me. Hate it. I’ve tried everything. Here’s what works. I take a few critical vitamins in capsule form. I can’t handle more than 4 or 5 at once. […]
ICE CUBE FEET
Any of my three exes can verify that I am a shape-shifter. That I am a secret character in Marvel Comics called Ice Foot. That the second any part of my feet touched them as we laid together in bed, they’d feel the chill of ten thousand years run up their bodies until their brains […]
NO SOCIAL MEDIA
I’m taking time off social media so I can focus on creating my next series of art books, covering 2021 through 2026, with 200 of my best design images from each year in each book. The first book is already done! Over 200 images of my very best drawings, pastels and designs from 2021. 227 […]
PORTRAIT: MY BUDDY FRED the WOODWORKER
See if you can find all the things I put into his portrait! My buddy Fred comes by once a week or so, and we sit and share some punkin pie as he gabs away talking story all about the Giants games and his rellies who come to visit. (see the wrinkled up pic of […]
FOCUS
Remember when we were kids in science class, and Mr. Oswald got us all bundled up in our winter jackets and heavy boots, lined us up, and we traipsed along behind him carefully holding our new magic hand-held magnifying glasses? Crouching down onto the fragile dried brown grass, we loudly sighed and complained. It’s cold, […]
MY BRILLIANT FRIEND is Losing Her Memory,...
Sally is a poet. With published books, magazine articles, teaching workshops and groups, popular at local events for literary aficionados – But she doesn’t get it that she can’t remember talking to me last week, or even yesterday. Or that she ordered a whole bunch of my artwork, and was confused when it showed up […]
WHALES and NIGHT OWLS
My mother was convinced staying up past 10 pm was criminal. But even when I was still young, I came brilliant-awake at 8pm, and my energy didn’t fade until 4 or 5 am. Made getting up at 6 to catch the train to NYC for school really hard. I slept through the train ride, and […]
INTENTION
Last night someone asked me what I wanted this year to be all about. A thousand things came to mind, right? I thought, well, I want to be healthier, wealthier, wise-dier …. But seriously – what did I really want? I made time to deeply contemplate what I DO want for my future. Because so […]
THE YEAR of the FIRE HORSE!
They say the Year of the Fire Horse means clarity, power, dignity, get-things-done energy – I can believe it! Here’s what I found on mr. google: “The Year of the Fire Horse in the Chinese Zodiac is 2026, beginning on February 17, 2026, and is a rare, highly energetic year symbolizing transformation, passion, independence, and […]
HELLO 2026! HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR!
My first design of the year! Portending bold, bright, sun-full color, the powerful, unrelenting shape of I-refuse-to-ever-give-up, and the mysterious, precious lady-bug protection against any and all of those nasty anxiety, depression or despair bugs that sneak into our lives!
MAKE ART, NOT WAR!
In the spirit of the lovely holiday I just had, I figured it would be a good idea to bless 2025 and all that went down – good, bad, ugly and inspiring – because if we cuss it, it will be sad forever, and we don’t want that – right? We forget the power of […]
BIRDY BOWS BEFORE THE ALTAR OF LIGHT AND ...
What if, instead of strife and war and anger and killing, we focused on loving each other, despite our differences? Even -because- of our differences? Life would be so meh if we were all the same! We’d bore ourselves to death! “Oh it’s you again! Same old same old! Blah!” So the real question for […]
WHY CAN’T WE BE FRIENDS, WHY CAN’T WE BE
Aren’t there times in your life when you look out into the world and wonder what the hell is wrong with humans? I do. A lot, lately. I keep hearing my Ma say, “without the ugh we won’t know or appreciate the yum.” Well Ma, the ugh is pretty freaking bad this week. I’ll pass. […]
DUCKS
Lucky me, I grew up living next to a fairly large pond out on Long Island. It was a wonderful ice skating rink in winter, and not-so-great place to swim in summer. Every spring, the mallard ducks would proudly parade their babies across the pond for everyone to see. I still love to hear the […]
PLAY LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT
Because it does. I know, I know, I can hear you say, “But Angela, the world is falling apart, people are blowing up, society is crumbling and the earth is exploding from its very guts – how can you tell us to play???” Because if you don’t, you’ll get caught by your own maelstrom of […]
KISS ME HONEY!
I dream of everyone in the whole wide world loving each other. So here we are, all kissy – even the flowers in the corners are kissing! Love for EVERYone! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=- © Angela Treat Lyon 2025 instagram.com/angela.treat.lyon/ THE BOOK: amazon.com/Wild-Old-Women-Unleashed-Magnificent/dp/0975939068/
WILD OLD WOMEN UNLEASHED
Are you a plus-60 years old woman? Do you get ignored in public or at home, just because you have grey hair or walk with a cane? People walk right into me on the street and in stores sometimes! Hello? Am I invisible? Seems so – sure didn’t happen to me when I was a […]
SUNFLOWER SHINE
What if your life could be like being a huge sunflower – your face perpetually reflecting the sunny source of your being, never once doubting that you are here to shine? What if being that sunny flower was inspiration to those who are on the verge of giving up, and they suddenly realize their own […]
GOT THE BLUES?
Ohhhh yeah, I know that place all too well! Recently I had a few days that really sucked. So I figured I’d see what a drawing of it looked like. To my surprise, it’s beautiful! I guess you never know what’s in ya, do ya? -=-=-=-=-=-=- BLUES © Angela Treat Lyon 2025 https://www.instagram.com/angela.treat.lyon/ https://x.com/ALyon
I LOVE YOU!
Imagine if we all treated each other as if we loved each other. How amazing that would be. What a wonderful world it would be to live in. Aren’t we tired yet of all the world-happenings crap? So much anger, frustration, violence, opposition – can’t we agree to just freaking get along?
OH NO! SANTA’S STUCK!
I used to bug my parents about Santa Getting stuck, because our chimney was so narrow. They always told me he ‘magicked’ his way down, shrinking himself and his presents until they landed, when they’d all return to normal size.
AFTERNOON GAMES
Watching TV with all my buddies. Not that I even have a TV. But if I did, maybe it might look like this on a fine rainy afternoon . . . Who could resist sitting around with your best friend and critter buddies? -=-=-=-=-=-