You know how bears and other critters bulk up and get tubby fat in order to last long cold winter hibernation? Well, I’ve been wondering – when do their bodies decide it’s time to stop summer fun fooling around, and start packing on the serious L Bs in order to fatten up? I suppose for […]
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IT’S NEVER TOO LATE
I was 19. My favorite uncle, on vacation with family, drowned as he body-surfed the waves on a sunny Florida beach. Heart attack, they said. I was crushed. Not only because I loved the man, but because I had thought to call and tell him I loved him before they left, but never got around […]
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? -=-=-=-=-=-
WHERE DOES ‘GRATITUDE’ COME FROM?
It was only after I spent a few months in Italy carving marble, that it dawned on me out-of-the-blue one day where the word comes from – It comes from the word in Latin meaning ‘grace.’ When I was in sixth grade, Latin classes were mandatory. I pretended to hate it, but truthfully, I was […]
HOW I DEAL with PANIC ATTACKS
I used to get panic attacks all the time. I never knew to call them that. I just thought I was being stupid-overanxious. A friend of mine had a monstrous panic attack a few days ago. When I read what she’d gone through, I wished I had done what I promised myself I’d do long […]
Playing with Pyramids
Why Pyramid? Well – the word just popped into my head. So there it is! I had been looking at a lot of Egyptian art lately – think maybe it had some kind of influence? Nah, I don’t think so. I was just fooling around with triangles. And golds and browns and black. Sometimes the […]
FREEDOM
Today I had a long list of got-to-do items. I didn’t do a single one of them. Instead, I got hung up in watching some of the save-the-horses reels on facebook. It completely blows my mind how people just throw horses away as if they are worthless pieces of trash. There was one horse who […]
TWISTY CHEETAHS
Did you know that cheetahs have part dog DNA? I wonder who did that – it was a long, long time ago, whoever it was! But it’s why they have such long legs and such a small head in proportion to the body!
BLACK BIRD FLY . . .
I was listening to one of the Beatles’ albums tonight and their Blackbird song came up. I ‘saw’ this image right off, and hadda draw it. I love the colors! Enjoy.
MAKING MAGICK AT MIDNIGHT
Yesterday I told you how I found out about transforming the perpetual, unrelenting pain in my back into mere background noise, rather than full-front, attention-grabbing annoyance and agony. Simply by wishing blessings upon it. And then upon all of me. And then upon others. And other things. And other places. And the whole planet. And […]
BLINDED BY PAIN
I have many friends who are struggling hard every day – either dealing with weird family BS, money stuff, illness, or pain – it’s unreal how unrelenting life can be sometimes. It makes me wish I had a magic wand I could just wave once or twice and their problems would turn into Good Things.
DON’T PUSH ME IN!
When I was a kid, I was bullied relentlessly by a trio of nasty boys. They’d pop out of nowhere and surround me, taunt me, and push me around until I fell or spilled whatever I was carrying. Or they’d torture any animals in sight just to see what I’d do. At the pool one […]