Tanya Torres  
Art for Love, Peace and Joy

For Mary Magdalene’s Day, Moonlight Prayer is an offering, a meditation and a prayer.

When I paint Mary Magdalene, I look for softness. I want her iconic face to be timeless, ageless and peacefully detached. I want her iconography to subtly come through without great gestures. Light in the shape of a cross on her forehead. Tears of light down her cheeks. Her voice invisibly shining through her throat chackra. Red for her veil. Skin the color of the earth. I want her to be present in the image and say with paint what is difficult to say in words. Beyond the sto

What if there were a place where connection and community exists after retirement? An atelier, a bottega, a workshop is where art is created surrounded by community. It’s a place to gather, to create, and grow… at any age…

It’s time to draw another card from the Magdalene Muses deck. Patti’s writings are always a little balm to the soul.

My world, in daily life, is in Spanish. But I am so used to writing in English that it was only after publishing Creative Soul that I realized I had a challenge: how do I share a book in English with my live audience who speaks Spanish? This is why I decided to publish the Spanish version, titled ALMA CREATIVA. Mi mundo se expresa en español. Y cuando presenté por primera vez Creative Soul, me di cuenta de que me enfrentaba a un reto: ¿cómo compartir un libro en inglés con un

This is the story of my hours in Puerto Rico, and of what is to come soon.

Alma creativa is in its last stage of publishing! It’s not a mystery that our deepest ingrained values are what guide us in our life quests. Sometimes, often, we are not even aware of what those values are, while at the same time we act based on the deep beliefs that we acquired so early in our lives that we can’t even see how they impact every decision and action we take. I grew up shaped by values that seem to contrast and even oppose the person say I want to be. For exampl