We are given signs all the time- maybe you've noticed.
The clock whispering numbers: 11:11, 111, 333.
The setting sun and you look over and the shadows produce the numbers 7777.
Little white feathers showing up where no bird has flown. 

I found a 10 of clubs on the roadside one day,
I stuck it in my pocket.
Then I had a thought to ask the angels for a sign,
something challenging but not impossible. 
I was wanting to know that they were really around me, wanting to work with me. 
 
I asked the angels if they could give me another 10 of clubs. 
It's not like you find those every day. 
Many, many months passed and I hadn't found a 10 of clubs.
So, I spoke out to the angels and said that I released my request.
I guess I thought it was too hard for them.  

  A couple of months later, I connect with another soul who had found a 10 of clubs
and we each pull out our cards...
later I share the coincidence with my daughter who is in India,
and she gets all excited and sends me a picture of the 10 of clubs she has just found. 
Is that a coincidence? 
I guess the angels took my challenge seriously
and probably were laughing when I released the request.
I got a clear message that the angels wanted to work with me.  

Often the signs we receive carry profound messages,
sometimes simple reminders:
to re-member, to become more present, more coherent, more aligned
with the light you already carry, the light you already are.  

What kind of signs have you been receiving? 
What do they mean to you?
Are you taking notice?
Are you listening to the still small voice from within?

I have had many signs-visions, dreams, journeys.
Some led me across countries; others opened my eyes in the moment.  
Two weeks ago, another sign arrived: a near death experience, my fourth. 
It shook me, and it shook my family. 
But I have always found an- Instead in every moment.  
Instead, is a gift that keeps on giving.

Instead of complaint, gratitude.
Instead of lack, abundance.
Instead of searching for God outside, I discovered God within. 

Breath itself is the sign-Spirit moving through you,
life given as a gift, Heaven Here in this Now moment.

Let me share what has been revealed to me,
echoing what others have channeled in their own way:

You are not separate.
The illusion of separateness is the little voice of unworthiness.
But the greater truth sings louder: you are inseparable from
All That Is, Was, and Ever Will Be.

Every person, every breath, every heartbeat is part of the body of the Divine-
some call the Divine God, some Source, some Creator.  
Whatever the name, it is One.
And that One is you.

All that Source is you are.
All that you are, Source is.
There is no path to God, because God is already here.
You are One, yet you are many.  
You are the living masterpiece of creation.

You Are Love.
You Are Light.
You Are the Light of Love.

Now may your eyes be opened,
to recognize that we all need each other 
in this world where we live and breathe and have our very being.

It may seem I have wandered from the subject of Art, 
but I have found that everything is Art.  
We are all created in the image of God, in and through the 
Light of Love.

You Are Light.
You are Love.
You Are the Masterpiece.

This is a re-minder to re-member, 
STOP SEARCHING-GOD IS HERE NOW
WITHIN

 Become More Present, More Coherent, More Aligned
with the light you already carry,
the light you already are!

I'm laughing...it is 1:11 in this moment as I write.  
It is spoken that in spirituality and numerology,
seeing the 111 angel number serves as a powerful "green light" from the universe
that you are in a phase of rapid manifestation, spiritual alignment, and new beginnings. 
I have been getting this number all week.  
I am an open energetic portal, and quickly shaping
my physical reality.  
YOU ARE AN OPEN ENERGETIC PORTAL AND YOU ARE SHAPING YOUR PHYSICAL REALITY! 
So, what are you shaping into your physical reality,
this is your Heaven on Earth.

Sending you loads of light and love for your expansion in joy.
RE-MEMBER
You are Light...You Are Love...You Are the Masterpiece.

​With love, Johanna

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BLUE HOUSE - BACK YARD

We packed our bags and off we went, from Oaxaca to Washington State and back again.  
It was a lovely visit with our daughter Janelle, her husband Chris, and our granddaughters, Lennon and Ophelia.  
Our daughter Christa was able to join us, and we all got to spend time at the beach, see friends, and celebrate each other.  

We were there for several weeks and we got to spoil our daughters and our granddaughters which was oh so fun to do. 
​
We are home now and it's time to get back to painting and Expanding with Joy!
I have several projects in the works and some exciting new projects in the background I am working on, and I hope to soon announce it to all of you...so stay tuned.  

This one is short and sweet...thank you all for listening, see you next month.
Sending you all bundles of light and love to brighten your day, Johanna

 I love this quote that I saw; it didn't have someone's name attached to it, but the words have left
me thinking how truthful they are. 
"Don't forget to look around...where you're standing was once the goal.

Do you believe that dreams whisper to us, asking to be trusted. 
Maybe you have a continuous thought about a dream and feel you should do something,
or you have always wanted to do go visit somewhere or become an artist,
​write a book, start your own company
or be the first one in your family to become a millionaire. 
You don't have a clue or maybe you do as to how you will achieve these feats. 
  You find yourself thinking about it, and sometimes you entertain it. 
Then your ego begins talking to you and cautions you to play safe,
it gives you a bunch of stinking thinking like you can't do that,
you don't even know how to do it;
your ego say's "don't you think it's easier to just stay where we are"?

Well, I put a squash to my ego years ago when it was telling me that I couldn't move to Mexico. 
My ego and I had several conversations many times,
either my ego could become a partner to my dreams and support me
or go sit on the fence and be quiet. 
That was what my mother would tell us as children when we weren't playing nice...go sit on the fence until you can play nicely with everyone else.  
I found that if I started talking to my ego self and I would begin with a sentence that I still use today.
 I would reassure and tell my ego that it was going to be safe and that we're just going to try this new thing, we're just going to see if it's a right fit, we're just testing the waters,
and we can return to the old way if necessary. 
That would always work, as I found myself expanding exponentially.  
Today the resistance comes less often.
The resistance will still visit.
 She doesn't disappear; she gets tamed.
You feel the doubt, you name it, you pick up the brush or the pen anyway.  
Today my ego and I are friends and we are always trying something new.  
Kick fear to the curb and try something you've always wanted to do. 
Don't wait, start small and keep taking the next right step.  

"The path from imagination to manifestation is rarely straight. 
​It is woven with patience, doubt, hope, and persistence.  Each step is a quiet act of faith."

I am in awe that throughout our lives, there are seeds that are being planted.  
Many lie dormant for years and years until the right moment comes when they sprout.

"Dreams are not only visions of the night-they are seeds of light, waiting for the right season to bloom."

THIS IS MY SEASON TO BLOOM

I have been quietly working on this book project for actually over a year.  
It's for my daughters Janelle and Christa, and my granddaughter's Lennon and Ophelia. 
I have dreamed of becoming a children's author for many years.  
I am so grateful to those that helped me believe that I could be an author.  
I heard that you should keep quiet until the fruit of your labor appears.
I have shared with only a select few people who were my helpers.
Today I thank you, Christa J. Clark, Maitreya Cempaka for helping me see that yes, I can, and for 
​my daughter Janelle for which the dream was born through and my higher angelic guidance.  

"There is such a difference when you get to than when you have to".
​That is one of the most important shifts a human being can make, and most people never fully arrive there.
I'm so grateful this truth has arrived within me. 

Thank you all for your time, thank you for following my dreams, thank you for sticking around each month and listening to my journey.  Great things are happening and I love sharing them with you. 
I hope you'll buy my book and read it to your children and grandchildren.  
I hope my dreams spur your dreams into action.
Remember, you are the light of love, so shine bright my friends.  
​Johanna

When I came to Mexico, I had retirement in my mind.  The thing is there is no such thing as retirement.  You are either moving forward and expanding, or you are in a dead end and ready to leave this plain we call Earth.  

When my husband and I came, it wasn't all sunny beaches in our relationship and even though we brought only two suitcases each, we were carrying a lot of other baggage.   I ask you, what are you still carrying? All the emotional baggage you may have healed or not healed.  This was made very evident to me as I had some emotional anger that I denied, and some inner child wounds that I didn't want to really admit or even look at.  I had done a bunch of shadow work before we came but you're like an onion with many layers to uncover.  Layers upon layers, deeply buried where you thought no one could see them, including yourself.  

I remember seeing this magazine photo that showed this couple walking down a dusty road and a man that resembled Jesus following behind carrying lots of luggage, I realize this was the couple's baggage that they had not dealt with or had not let go and forgiven, and they were so far out in front of Jesus that they didn't even know they were carrying all this stuff, all the stuff he died for.   I cut that picture out and kept it for many years and had just gotten rid of it when we came to Mexico.  

At first nothing changed when we arrived, my old normal patterns of doing life...not a human being enjoying life...but doing life, dealing with the same old ways of not dealing with the truth inside, not expanding with joy.  God seemed to be constantly talking to me about expansion with joy, only most of the time I wasn't listening.  It was like being a ghost in my own body.  It was like I was sleepwalking through life.  

Sometimes we are so good at pretending.  Giving a show.  Expressing a false self by walking in lies of our own making, trying to keep the peace even if all of that is slowly killing you.  

Well...if you don't get the message that God is trying to convey to you...to change or shift your patterns, then sometimes drastic measures are needed.  You know the ones, you get sick, you get in an accident, things start falling a part in your household, in your family, things become monotonous, the spark leaves life and you find yourself faced with either change or your journey is over, your mission or purpose is incomplete and it's time to go. 

That's exactly what happened...I got a wakeup call.  I had been having them for years. How about you?  Have you been getting messages to wake up? Cancer was one of mine, still didn't cause me to change or at least not fully enough.  There were various ailments within my body that were telling me to I needed a cleanse, a releasing of toxins and thoughts that I was keeping and holding onto that were slowly poisoning my peace, my joy, and that I was actually causing my own self to suffer.  Later on I found out that I even gave myself the cancer, you might not believe that but I realize that all that stuff, all the worry, all the pain of heartbreak, all the lies you have been telling yourself, all the ways we hold on to betrayals, all the times we were manipulated, all the ways we chose to hurt ourselves physically and verbally and how we feed the pain with drugs and alcohol and it just seems it's a never ending loop we can get stuck in.  This is the baggage.

My first year in Mexico and I was gifted with a Near Death Experience that was a wakeup call for sure.  A few weeks after this NDE message I get to experience another message as my soul decides to exit this earth plain again, I have no say in the matter as my soul begins to leave.    Apparently, I didn't get the first message in way that shifted me into a new patten of living. I do remember the message...Do you want to live?  If you do want to live, then get on with the experience of living.  What does this experience of living look like to you?

There is a cord that attaches the astral body to the physical body this is an energetic cord that we all have on this frequency we call earth.  When you have a Near Death Experience depending on where you are energetically or vibrationally and what we believe, we have an experience that mirrors that.  You have heard of some reports by people that they traveled down a tunnel of light.  When near death happens, this is a dying, but the person doesn't complete the process.  I have been shown that if one continues toward the light and enters it, this energetic cord is dissolved, and one has crossed over or gone through the veil of light.  

  My own experience was like I went to a waiting area, a place where it was super peaceful and I was just floating around.  It was a place of pure love. Ernie my husband said I mentioned my mom as I returned.  When you have this experience, it can then alter the projection of one's life and as it should.  In my particular case, about three weeks later I found myself leaving again and I was unable to stop the going.  Thankfully Ernie my husband threw a glass of water on me to stop the process.  The thing is I realized, my guides and guardians were trying to change the projectory (project and trajectory) of my life path.  I had been on a path that led to a dead end, no pun intended.  So, something like this experience that happens to you can really shake up your thinking.  The idea is to shift one's heart mindset into creating new patterns.  

Since those wake-up calls, every time I have been going in the wrong direction or getting off track it's been made very clear that I have a mission or purpose to fulfill and to about face, create a new pattern of living and go in way that is beneficial to it.  

This has led me to stop drinking and partaking in experiences that will hurt my spirit, mind and body.  It has helped me to make better decisions about my diet, led me to yoga, walking, and other types of exercise.   It has also led me to seek out all different kinds of healing modalities and even become certified in some like Reiki, and sound healing.  I have also been encouraged to try vibrational sound healing which led me to having my own Quantum healing table with Vibro Acoustic Sound and crystal therapy that I can share with others. 

I have been fascinated ever since the NDE with the other side.  I am ferocious is my pursuit of learning about channeling, hypnosis regression, reading ever book and listening to others that have gone through these experiences and to people whose lives have completely changed because they said yes and went down a rabbit hole because all of a sudden in their lives they are hearing from beyond this world and getting messages to share with the masses.  

What I have found is we are Artists of Reality.  We came here to create, co-create with the great creator.  You are, and every one of us have come here to become sculptors of experience.  We are the poets of the quantum field and the physical dimension. We are all frequency artists because we are energy...we are creators of something whatever you may be creating, and we are in the frequencies of our creations.  

Today I ask you my friend, what are you creating?  Are you listening to your still quiet inner voice? Listen deeply and make the adjustments that you feel are needed.  Is it that job you dread going to each day?  Have you been feeling like you're supposed to make a move, sell your house?  Have you always wanted to become an artist?  Take the necessary next right steps however small those first steps are.  If you are doing something that is hurtful to yourself or to another, about face and go in another direction.  If you have baggage no matter how small or how deep, find the help you need to let it go.  If your friends or so-called friends don't lift you up or believe in your success it's time to wave good-bye and make some new ones who do really care about you.  If you're in a marriage that doesn't feel empowering or beneficial for your expansion with joy, then ask yourself what it would be like to have a relationship that does meet your needs and that does create an expansion within you.  You're not really living if you continue to live in mediocrity, if you keep looking for the rainbow outside your window and even when you see it, you never want to leave the house of lies.  Fear is false evidence appearing real, you keep hoping for change, but it never happens because we never take the next right step.  

I am constantly facing all of these truths myself, and God is asking me to shift my position and use a new compass that changes my patterns.  If this resonates, feel free to reach out and we can have a chat.  

A note on the Art side of things...I continue to grow and face challenges to overcome.  I am just finishing up another new painting and will present it all to you next month.  

Remember you are the light of love, so don't let this life dim your light, shift your patterns so your light will shine brilliantly!  Then you'll be a world changer.  

Be liquid love and splash all over, Johanna
​See you all next month

Everything is always, always coming up roses. 
If you want to believe
that everything is always working out for you,
always, always working out for you
then what I have found is it does. 
And when you look back 
over your life, even in the most terrible traumatic times
Everything has worked out.
Lessons were learned or repeated until they were learned and
now maybe, it wasn't exactly how you thought it should work out, 
but it worked out.  

My newest painting is called "Coming Up Roses"
Her Story Her Blessing
She walks through the forest as the light of love itself.  
Every step she takes, roses rise to meet her.  She is the birth of love and every gesture she makes; petals fall and she plants seeds that sprout magic.  The forest blooms in her presence, reminding us that abundance is not something we chase-- it is something we embody.  
When we believe in love's infinite flow, life responds in kind.  
We are always, always coming up roses. 

This painting is a mirror of your spirit.  You, too, are the one whose presence calls beauty forth. 
You, too, are the one who's light and love, your very essence this place we live called earth is crying out for. 
Your very breath stirs magic from the ground...your words and thoughts create your very world. 
There will be days that your path feels shadowed, days when the forest seems still, and you feel alone. 
There will be days of torrential rains and howling winds
and those days of when all is well and everything seems right with the world. 
No matter what season you are in the roses wait beneath the soil,
​ready to rise at your touch. 
You are never without abundance.  You are never without love. 
The world blooms in response to your belief, and the forest remembers your light.  

"Beloved Souls, I write to you not as a stranger, but as one who sees the light you carry...
You are the guardians of abundance, the one whose steps call roses from the earth...
You are the rose blooming, the seeds of love come forth from you...
Love is not something you must earn--
it is the ground beneath your feet, rising to meet you with every breath.
May your days unfold like petals, may your nights shimmer with stars,
and may you always know:
You Are the Voice of Love."

Hello friends, March has been a month of expanding. 
It's my birthday month,
and as a good friend said time to celebrate another year's journey around the sun. 

So many new experiences are saying yes to me, try this, you're going in the right direction.  I wrote a children's book, still in the finishing stages. This was something I have wanted to do for years, and I finally took the time to try my hand at it.  I am excited to share it with you as soon as I have it in my hands and give it as a gift to my daughters and granddaughters. I am also on a new adventure with Spirit that has the possibility to expand into a "Movement".  It feels way bigger than me.  My job is to keep showing up, consistently and having fun while I do.  We don't need to know how it will happen, instead trust the flow, the ideas coming to you, pay attention and just take the next right step.  How about you?  Where is your expansion taking you?

The thing I have noticed is that every time I am on the edge of stepping into new territory where growth lives, resistance often show's up with it. 
In my mind I may know that I am safe, my spirit may already be soaring, but the body does not lie. 

Sometimes my body needs more time to trust the expansion.
Resistance is not the enemy.  It is the body's way of saying, "This is new.  Let me catch up". 
I notice it in the way of tension in my shoulders, the clenching of my teeth at night, it is the proof of growth.  It is the echo of fear dissolving; the residue of old stories being released.   
Does this happen to you?  

When you decide to take the next right step, something beautiful happens: the support you need appears.  Some call it synchronicity.  
But have you ever noticed that suddenly the photographer you've been thinking about or looking for suddenly appears...the little coincidences, you mention you are just thinking about it, and somebody knows somebody, and the funny thing is you already knew this person but didn't know they were a photographer.  It's like the universe heard you months ago and already provided, but you weren't quite there yet...so it was just waiting until your yes was yes.  Then the money appears, you get paid for a job you did over a year ago, so any resistance in this area has been taken care of.  Suddenly everything aligns, the path opens, not because the fear is gone, but because you chose to walk through it anyway.  You said yes, without wavering in doubt, but instead you are living in certainty.

I showed up and said "YES" to the scary thing.
The first steps to anything in growth is allowing yourself to try something new, to say yes to whatever it is.  
I showed up to my photo shoot this month. For days before hand, resistance lived in my body--the nervous signs of teeth grinding at night, neck tense, jaw tight, looking over all the outfits...more than once This was something I had been thinking I wanted to do, along with all my art being photographed also.  Evern though I had already walked through the fear of saying yes and making the appointment, I was getting ready to enter new territory-my nervous system still clung to its old armor.  
Then the excuses before I even started.   I didn't know a photographer here in Oaxaca. 
It meant I needed my art to be at a place of being ready and having enough art completed to warrant the cost of a shoot.  
Then the body judgement I had in my mind of being seen, of being heard, combatting all the old negative stories and shifting my mindset into one of love, one of loving myself, showing up for me, smiling at me. 
I am ready to be seen and I'm not hiding anymore; I can share the most vulnerable places within me and that includes my unique voice and the truths of my experiences.  

RESISTANCE IS NOW MY SACRED THRESHOLD  
Each time I cross it, I discover that the "scary" thing was never truly scary at all--it was simply the doorway to freedom.  

So, I honor my body's resistance as part of the ceremony.  
I breathe into the tightness, I whisper reassurance:
"We are safe.  we are free to grow."
Slowly, the body learns to soften into the expansion.

I used to tell my ego.
Were just going to try this and if we didn't like it, we could go back to the old way.  I told my ego that if it didn't have something nice to say; then just go sit on a fence until it wanted to play nice.  You know those not so nice voices.  
But now I laugh a bit at this...because there is no going back. I am standing in my own power and it's stronger than I once thought.  My ego has joined my heart and soul, and I find I walk in peace.  
I just keep moving forward, I keep expanding and with joy! 
Expanding with Joy, I think this is a book that I want to write, not because I have to, but because I can, I get to. 
​It is my life...learning to expand with JOY!

The photo shoot was more than images-it was initiation.  A reminder that showing up, even trembling, is enough. ​

That scary isn't scary anymore.

Just laugh at it and have fun.
"Where is resistance showing up in your body today, and what new horizon might it be guarding?"

"The world is changing at a pace that asks us all to be brave.  Resistance may tighten our jaws, stiffen our necks, or whisper that we aren't ready.  But each time we step forward, we discover that scary isn't scary anymore.  These thresholds are not just personal-they are collective.  We are all learning to soften into new horizons together."

"And so, I step forward, jaw unclenched, heart open, into the horizon that once felt frightening. 
Scary is simply the threshold of becoming. 
May we all honor resistance as the sacred gatekeeper of our growth
and walk together into the new world that is waiting for us."

Golden Coherence-Acrylic-60x70cm-

This painting is a journey from noise into coherence, from fragmentation into union.

The vibrant colors in the hair are like ribbons of truth, of light, of love.
The colors of oranges, reds in the hair represent the voices and distractions of the world, gradually dissolving into higher vibrations of love and light.

From the heart emerges radiant green, carrying golden hearts that symbolize purity and unity.  Teal flows as the truth of the voice, while purple awakens the third eye, and gold surrounds all - reminding us of the divine essence we embody.  It is a vision of becoming one with the Prime Creator of All, our Source, our true Choice Point, the place where we all become unified in the Golden Coherence of Love, of Light. 
Here we recognize ourselves as perfect essence, inseparable from All.  Here we recognize that we all matter, that we are the harmony for each other, we are all one coming together as notes that create a song of unity, a vibration that connects us together as one. Here, we all become the Light of Love and recognize that we are One with All.

From the Studio:

Every moment we have together is a blessing, is a gift.  Thank you for reading this post. Thank you for your support.  I appreciate each and every one of you.  Below is an easy link to share with a friend.  Someone who may benefit from not only supporting me but giving themselves a gift of the light of love.  Each person that signs up receives three free blessing cards that you can print to give away and enhance someone's day.  As a subscriber you all will receive 15% off the first print purchased. You will also be the first to receive notice of new paintings, of special blessings being released.   Soon this will all be in place with ease and grace, and you will all be the first to know the date of my launch.  Stay tuned for more!

Thank you once again, for listening.
You are the Light of Love,
​Johanna  

What would it be like to be a "Beacon of Light"? 
Have you ever thought about it? 
What if you already are a beacon of light and didn't realize it.   
A beacon stabilizes,  it radiates, and it expands.

It does not demand attention, it simply shines.
It holds steady in the storm, offering direction when the path feels uncertain.
It glows with a quiet strength, reminding others of their own brilliance.

To be a beacon of light is to embody presence-to stand rooted in love,
to radiate compassion, to expand into possibility. 

And perhaps the most beautiful truth is this: 
You don't have to become a beacon of light.
You already are.
Every act of kindness, every moment of authenticity,
every breath of gratitude is part of your radiance.
The invitation is simply to notice it, to honor it, and to let it shine.

Each blessing is offered in both English and Spanish,
carrying the vibration of unity across languages.
Each card has a blank space on the back and awaits your own words of encouragement...
To gift a friend, uplift a loved one, or brighten a stranger's day.
Through this act of love, you become a beacon. A world-changer. A light-sharer.

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They are my way of saying thank you for joining this circle of light.
"How will you let your light shine today?"

By your act of support in joining my newsletter, you're not only receiving blessings-
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You become a part of the unfolding story of my studio,
witnessing each painting as it emerges,  each blessing as it takes form.   

As a subscriber, you'll be the first to see new works before they are shared publicly,
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To collect is to honor the journey of art as ceremony.
To collect is to let beauty live with you, guiding your days with color, breath, and blessing.

🌿 When you join, you’re not just supporting me as an artist--
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LET YOUR LIGHT BE SEEN.
LET YOUR BREATH BE SACRED.
LET YOUR JOURNEY BE BLESSED.
YOUR BLESSING ME IS  BLESSINGS UPON YOU...
PRESSED DOWN...SHAKEN AND OVERFLOWING

Thank you for your support,
Johanna Lee Larson

​Just listen to the words: 

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to be free

Blackbird, fly
Blackbird, fly
Into the light of the dark black night

Hello friends, I've been busy with not being so busy.  While I did complete a painting in October, the month of November has been about being thankful and taking the time for myself. 
I helped out a friend with another cat sitting gig.  Bought myself a few new pieces of clothing.  Went on a trip with my daughter Christa to Mexico City, where we visited the castle in the huge park that is bigger than New Yorks Central Park, enjoyed excellent Pizza and walked around the tree lined streets.   We then flew to Ixtapa and stayed at the Worldmark Resort in Zihuatanejo, Mexico. The resort was fantastic, and the beautiful bay and local people were so kind, and we just really loved it.   I do plan on returning another time.

 I thoroughly enjoyed the time spent with Christa, time to swim in the pool, walk around Mexico City and Zihuatanejo.  While we were in Zihau, we met several people from Washington state also visiting the area.  We also went over to what they call the island and, on the way, met a local man who was wearing a Seahawks Jersey #12, and worked at a beach restaurant with the Seahawks flag, it's a small world.  We spent the day at this restaurant lounging, enjoying the turquoise waters and eating great food.

It was a lovely vacation, and I didn't realize how much
I actually needed to go and see some different sites of Mexico and break up my weekly routines.  

I am home now and have started creating a brand-new piece for the series Unified Light.  I plan to share it with you in my December Blog.  

I love random ways the universal sends you gifts. 
How when your attracted and passionate about something, the thing your passionate about shows up everywhere you go, even with your loved ones when you're not even around.  

While Christa and I were in Mexico City,
I see this man walking in the street wearing a pair of white overalls...
I had been thinking about getting a pair for painting in. 
Well, this man was covered in paint...Jaja Jaja...
I knew he was an artist the moment I saw him. 
So of course, I waved at him and Christa, and I stopped to chat with him.   
His name was Nicolas Guzman, and he had been creating in his art studio
and was just taking a break for a cup of coffee, a coincidence? 
You can check out his work @studionicolasguzman on Instagram. 

Then when I returned,
I was invited to a wonderful reception for a Group Art Exhibition at Niss Gallery in Huayapam, Mexico. 
@nissgaleria on Instagram

I have met some really talented artists here in Mexico and two that I follow, and love
are Ayanna Mojica and Echieko Wenrich Clegg.
​@ayannamojica    @echieko333

​Below is a picture of the Niss Gallery Collective Reception with the owner of the building cutting the red ribbon, and artist Nicolas Guzman from Mexico City.  

The very next day after Niss Gallery reception I went to Yoga with Christa,
something I try to do faithfully every Friday through Sunday.
She began telling me what a lovely evening she had taking herself out on a date. 
While she was there, her beautiful glow attracted some other ladies at the same restaurant wine bar. 
As she was leaving, they ask her to stop and talk with them. 
Turns out one of them is a gallery owner here in Oaxaca, and also in California.
​What are the chances? Coincidence?
They invite her to come have dinner and get to know them, and Christa asks if she can invite me also. 
What a lovely coincidence, and wonderful opportunity to meet new people and who knows where it will lead. 
Don't you just love how beautiful life works and how you get to meet such interesting and incredible people.  Everywhere we turn beauty surrounds us if were expecting beauty to surround us. 
Opportunity and gifts follow us if we recognize them as gifts and opportunities. 
I like to think of every person that comes across my path as a beautiful gift,
and if you are reading this blog, that includes you.  
Thanks for supporting me, I really do appreciate you tremendously.  
Hope you all had a beautiful Thanksgiving with your friends and family
and that lovely coincidences are happening for you.

You can also find me on Instagram @johannaleelarson_artwork