Author Archives: Deborah

About Deborah

Deborah Jane Milton, Ph.D. is an artist, mentor, writer, mother of four, grandmother of eight. who inspires humanity's Great Turning: our evolution to living as a "whole" human, with headbrain and bodymind collaborating, with science and spirit dancing, with rationality, intuition and the ephemeral co-creating.

Suburban Avalanche

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Deborah

When they’re snug inside their home by the hearth, reading or writing maybe, cooking dinner, perhaps creating art, they don’t expect to die by avalanche. They’ve lived at the base of a mountain for thirty years, weathered all kinds of … Continue reading →

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Fierce Love

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Deborah

With gratitude to my friend Jane for inspiring these thoughts in our conversation today. By the end of January and the official end of the Painting the Feminine course with Connie Hozvicka, I felt discombobulated. Confusion over love tossed me … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged adoration, anger, dark, earth, fierceness, globe, light, living on earth, love, power, protectiveness | 2 Comments

The Heart of Art

Posted on February 18, 2014 by Deborah

As one painting journey ends, another begins. I am struck with the gift of all the online opportunities to pray for this earth of ours through the blessings of art. I spent the month of January totally immersed in Painting … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged acrylic, art as healing, art as prayer, art as wisdom, blessings of the unexpected, Connie Hozvicka, healing arts., intuitive painting, oil pastels, prayer painting, Prayer with a Paintbrush, process painting | 1 Comment

Grooving on the Healing Nature of Art

Posted on January 6, 2014 by Deborah

Our well being, and our planet’s, depends on creating our asses off. I’m serious! We need to bring beauty back. We need to honor the spontaneous expression of wonder and surprise. We need to remember what makes us hummmmmm, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged aliveness, art and healing, art and wholeness, Connie Hozvicka, creating and thriving, mystery, Terry Tempest Williams | 2 Comments

Light Obsession

Posted on December 21, 2013 by Deborah

Darkness calls me with its power. I love night’s beauty. .. the magnificence of day blind stars, the aurora borealis yanking audible awe from my throat, moon sprinkling diamonds on snow, the forest breathing more slowly as trees, quite literally, … Continue reading →

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The Sacredness of Relating

Posted on November 26, 2013 by Deborah

This last month has flown by. Praying True, the global group on Facebook mentioned for the first time in my last post, grows in giant steps and deepens my commitment to living a life of reverence. And you know what … Continue reading →

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The Web

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Deborah

Dear Readers of my blog, I am walking an unprecedented road and yet I forecast it back in August. Do you remember? I tell you about sitting on the couch with Victoria and sharing with her my last two … Continue reading →

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What’s Your Thread?

Posted on October 15, 2013 by Deborah

I don’t know where time goes. Do you? A month has passed and I need more time so I have left my part time job at an art gallery. I have no idea how money will flow, but I know … Continue reading →

Posted in generations, mystery, truth, Uncategorized | Tagged aliveness, authenticity, balance, complexity, human purpose, interconnections, nourishing, praying, ritual, salmon, speaking up, tracks, truth, wisdom, wonder. epiphanies | 6 Comments

Dead Zone – Part 2

Posted on September 18, 2013 by Deborah

I’m laughing at my stubborn refusal to post again until I have finished the salmon prayer painting for August. I have just finished the painting and now I will finish the story of our traipsing through the wood along the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged dead lakes, healing in the company of others, salmon prayers, toxic water, wounded earth | 2 Comments

Dead Zone – Part 1

Posted on August 22, 2013 by Deborah

At a friend’s birthday party two weeks ago, I reconnect with James and Victoria, dear spiritual kin who live about an hour’s west of where I do. Due to circumstances beyond our control, we haven’t seen each other in … Continue reading →