There is so much threatening our freedom right now! So – what to DO??? Happy Thanksgiving Day to all who celebrate, and to all who do not! I choose this image named Possibilities for today because times are scary right now, and instead of decrying all day what’s wrong, what’s wrong, and whining and crying […]
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Category: About Angela
THEY SAID I WAS LYING
I got all the way to my mid-teens before it suddenly came home to me one day that other people didn’t just suddenly get complete downloads of ideas the way I did. People asked me, “Where do you get your ideas?” They thought I was lying when I told them. It was then that I […]
I Refuse to Let Life Crush Me
People are reeling at the chaos created by recent events! We have to manage our minds better! Being with people recently, whether live or on social media, feels like being in an emotional washing machine, tossed around like a piece of old worn out lint. I refuse to be smashed! I shall remain calm. I […]
LOOKING BACK JUST MAKES YOU YEARN, ACHING...
Listening to Shanna spout crap like that made my belly churn. What the heck was she thinking??? But suddenly, she went into this kind of glassy-eyed trance . . . Shanna came back over today to tell me she was so grateful to me for stopping her panic attack yesterday. And, all excited, told me […]
STOP WASTING YOUR ENERGY!
My neighbor Shanna came over, crying, utterly bereft about the election. I told her to put her big-girl panties back on and quit indulging in weeping and wailing and moaning and being angry and sad, moping around like a victim, wasting her energy She yelled at me. I don’t do well with being yelled at. […]
LET ME HOLD YOU UNTIL YOU FEEL BETTER
If only I had the means to comfort everyone! Wouldn’t it be nice if you had someone whose arms you could just fall into, snuggle up against them and revel in the comfort of their Being? No need for crying, no complaining, no woes - just a nice, warm hey-I-love-you-let’s-hug kinda thing.
Ferny Fern Fern, I Love You
I used to go out into my yard in Hawaii, sit in my favorite chair, and hold hands with my ferns. They loved it (they told me so!) and I loved it. I miss that. Where I live now, I go outside and there’s no place to even put a chair, or sit with the […]
WHERE DID MY ENERGY GO???
I’m used to being one of those annoying full-of-juice, c’mon-let’s-go people who get everyone else motivated and moving and having way too much fun as we make waves in the world with our artful creations. So now it surprises the shit out of me when sometimes I feel like I’ve been rolled over by a […]
MY MACHO NACHOS (& CHIPS)
Some of us, who are perfect in every other possible way (ahem!), have a terrible, dark secret. That secret, if known, would probably make everyone on the planet shun, condemn, and make fun of us! We might even be deleted from existence if it was known!
SELFIE BEAR
Having a basically shy nature, it’s beyond me how people are so obsessed with making selfies. I just don’t get it. Why would anyone want to plaster themselves all over a world-wide platform? Can you tell me? I’m thinking in particular about one video posted by a gal who filmed herself all gussied up, slamming […]
I MISS MY DOG
Back in the 90s, I lived in two of the bays of an old abandoned fire house, where the town fire trucks had been kept. There was a big parking lot out front. At the beginnings of our daily walks out into the desert, my dog IO (pron. Ee-oh) would come out into the lot […]
PLANT ENERGY
I’ve studied healing plants for years, and have always wanted to honor them somehow – the ones I have used always did such wonders for me and my family. So I’m working on creating a series of designs featuring plants used for healing. Each one of them has specific properties that help with various different […]
DON’T GO CRAZY – JUST DRAW!
There are some days when things in life seem so shitty that I can’t get my mind bent around a single thing – except drawing. Drawing is my life-saver. Today was one of those days. I’ve been completely occupied with the travesty happening in North Carolina - I got totally sucked in. I try to not do […]
I Was Surprised by My Own Artwork
I’m so used to creating bold designs using bright colors that I forget the there are people who prefer more quiet beauty. I was doing the primary design of this piece, all full of really bright colors and bold strokes. The app I use to draw on only has a few basic colors, so I’m […]
BIRDIES LOVE CHERRIES
Every year, hundreds of birds would swoop down and eat all the cherries on our trees, whether they were ripe or not. We finally trimmed the branches of the trees so it would be shorter, and much easier to put birdie-proof nets over them the next year. Success! We got full crops from then on, […]
THE BUNNY & THE TORTOISE Give Up the Race
There are days I’m so full of ideas and images they feel like popcorn popping and bursting and trying to get out of my noggin. Today was one of those days. Usually, before I open my eyes to fully wake up, I spend a bit of time appreciating what I’m most grateful for, and then […]
GARDEN FEAST
My ma had the most awesome organic garden. She had every veggie known to man and some we had no clue what they were. Despite it being the source of so much deliciousness, we kids hated that garden, because we had to go out and weed it every weekend. It was only when I finally […]
KITTY PLAYTIME
Maybe you’ve never noticed how sometimes your kitty can be just downright silly. (Silly? Kitties? Never!) Whoddathunkit, playing with the mice he’s supposed to catch! Only this time, it’s Leo the Leopard – he just can’t resist all those meeces! -=-=-=-=-=- Leo’s Playtime © Angela Treat Lyon 2024
NASTURTIUMS: MY SAVIORS
The Park Fire here in northern California tried to snake its fiery fingers right into my world, coming within three miles of my house. It freaked the living daylights out of me, relentlessly debilitating me for a whole month. The fire is still raging, many miles to the north, over 450,000 scares burnt, lives cut […]
I HAD A DREAM ABOUT YOU, JENNY S.!
As I drove down an obscure, insanely rough, red-dirt road in Baja, I came around a corner, there on my right suddenly reared up an enormous storm-grey rock, as big as a two-story house. What is that doing there?!? I slammed on the brakes. I had to check this out. As I looked closer, I […]
FISHY LOBSTER FEAST
Today we had 101 degree heat. I melt at such high temps. My mind disappears into the deepest crack in the sea, and try as I might to sit up and work, my body refuses to function. Just about all I can do is turn on the AC and get horizontal until the house has […]
MICE JUMPING and PLAYING IN THE RAIN JUST...
When I was a kid, I loved running out in the spring rain, jumping in puddles and splashing until I was soaking wet drenched, head to foot. Now, of course, I’m staid and demure, like a proper old lady should be. Hahahahahahahaha! Go on – believe that if ya want!!!! I just posted this purple […]
HERE’S A FISH FOR YOU BECAUSE I LOVE YOU
Penguins are the silliest looking critters, aren’t they? But I love how sweet their mannerisms are, and how amazing they are underwater. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=- © Angela Treat Lyon 2024
HOT! HOT! HOT! AAAAAGGGGHHHH!!!
Do you like hot, spicy foods? I do, but my body? Not so much! Instant reactions! So here we are, eating our favorite east Indian dinner – and then – Ooooooh!!! Hotttt!!!! Yeowie! Yikes! Whew! Hand me the napkins! Wouldn’t a silk scarf of this be funny? You could wear it out to dinner with […]
HUMMERS & BEES MAKE ME WEAK IN THE KNEES!
I have this Thing for Hummingbirds. I think they are some of the most miraculous beings on the planet. Imagine having to suck multiple times your body weight in liquid food through a long skinny pipe every day! And being able to look in the mirror to see all those flashy bright colors on your […]
CATS X 3
In a kind of odd moment as I sat glomping my lunch a couple days ago, I looked out my window to see my neighbor’s cats sunning themselves on the window sill, and they just looked so happy. Have you ever wished you had your own safe windowsill where you could relax and be totally […]
SLOW GROWTH IS GOOD GROWTH
Supposedly . . . As you know, I’ve been taking a highly intense, galactically-comprehensive course on the business of being an artist. Comprehensive is the biggest understatement ever!
GENTLE REMINDER: YOU ARE UNIQUE!
No one else can possibly do what you do. . They may do something similar, but what you do has your breath within it, has your dreams behind it, and has your signature energy inside it. . There are days when I wonder, myself, why do I do what I do? . And then the […]
EARLY BIRDIE GETS THE WORM
I’ve had this phrase running in my mind all day long – driving me crazy! I finally realized it wanted me to draw it. So I did! I can be pretty slow sometimes . . . but eventually I get the hint. -=-=-=-=-=-=- Early Birds © Angela Treat Lyon 2024
WHY AREN’T THEY BITING?
My newest scarf! It’s 26″ square, rich colors on a lovely pure silk charmeuse – I love it! A friend told me about how he’d gone fishing, and actually watched as the fish gathered around his hook and bait and, laughing all the way to town, didn’t bite all day! He never could figure out […]