Visit the Oracle with Kristen Scholfield-Sweet
An Oracle translates a problem or question into a language of image and symbol like that of dreams. The Oracle’s answers change the way you see things. Your anxieties and desires emerge to be recognized and resolved, and hidden transformative energies are released.
The challenge of being a teacher
Everyone knows something significant, that others would benefit from knowing, but not everyone can teach so others can receive that knowing.
Naming makes it so
Names echo with the ancient wisdom that they contain power, they have agency to influence outcome. Names become the reality we choose.
Conversation with myself while painting a drum
Where did this come from?
It’s in the drum skin.
Sure you are not just making this up?
Always a risk. I am looking for what is looking back at me.
Basic rules for thinking like an artist
Three essential tools for creating a necessary state during which a creative leap can happen.
Painting the Shaman Bird
Do you know the shaman bird?
I might. Just a little.
Inspired by the breath of whales
This new drum was inspired by listening to a humpback whale
breathing next to our sailboat in the quiet dusk of early evening.
Night Music drum: the story of an echo
What is this creature? Depends on the story I tell myself.
Two good questions
Naming it makes it so.
Meet the Mystery in a drum
What is the Mystery? A journey through a space between what you already know and what you have not yet experienced.
Why do I make drums?
Why do I make drums?
To communicate with the other than human world,
with the spirit world.
Are you happy here? A question for our times.
Are you happy here? Interesting question that. At first glance perhaps the answer is “Of course! Quiet bird floating on beautiful water; a peaceful moment.”
Have we had enough? Are we making a choice?
I have for years laughingly said, “I want to come back as a dragonfly”.