Who, Exactly, Am I? Here’s my recent Artist Statement
(botanical illustration of E. Coca by me in my twenties) Artist Statement by teZa Lord Throughout my life I have attempted to create in order to honor the highest possibilities available to all humankind. For this, I studied anatomy, perspective, and how to handle materials at the School of the Museum of Fine…
Read MoreForgive But Never Forget: a Marriage Vow
This story is not for the faint of heart. It’s a #MeToo true story. My story. Prudes and spiritual skeptics need read no further. Eva Maria, two new immigrants’ first child, was born on a small New Jersey farm in the year of the Great Pandemic, 1918. Her first language was Lithuanian. She didn’t learn…
Read MoreHow Plants Have Influenced Me
My interest in plants began with my upbringing, as my mother was a Lithuanian immigrant farmer’s daughter. There was always a garden to be grown, plants to be harvested, and relationships with all aspects of nurturing, protecting and enjoying plant life of all sorts filling my memory as early as I can remember. Of course,…
Read MoreWhat To Believe … and Not Believe
So many versions of reality to choose from! I’m amazed just looking at my screen, which to choose from. And forget about tuning into a newscast! That’s almost like committing reality suicide, being completely held hostage by whomever it is that’s calling themselves the pundit, commentator, influencer, or, gulp, reporter. And so I’ve grown to…
Read MoreThe Cause, and the Solution, for the Israel-Hamas Conflict
(The following is an excerpt from my 2019 nonfiction book, Hybrid Vigor: a True Reveal of Love. This discussion occurred when I’d been living in Israel the entire year of 1981, before the radical Brotherhood called Hamas was formed, in ’87) From Chapter 8: The Alchemy of Love ******** One day over tea I, in…
Read MoreBlindly in Love with Love
My life quest, I was sure, was to find what meant the most, the deepest, the highest: the best. Limiting that search to a single long-term romantic partner never occurred to me, quite frankly. Believe me, I tried everything, everything! Going too far most times, traveling to the ends of the earth, excessively throwing myself…
Read MoreAn Illustrious Tribe of Thoughtful Readers
Important milestones are acknowledged by all of us along our path to higher understanding. To some of us it’s meeting our mate, or graduating from college, or helping someone out of a big jam. For me, along with many other touchstones that have added significance to my personal quest of attaining inner peace, books have…
Read MoreHow We Can Save Ourselves
I have come to the realization (long ago, but stronger with each passing moment) that the most important thing in life, anyone’s life … is Love. And by this, I mean, “How do we acknowledge the unifying energy that binds all in creation together, as One.” An acronym came to me the other day for…
Read MoreNo Time for Fear, It’s Wasteful
How we spend our time is what we are. Time after time we prove to ourselves: What we become is what we hold in our consciousness. If you believe things are going wrong, they will. If you believe that things happen for a reason, even if you don’t like them or ever know what reason,…
Read MoreA Nervy Time for All of Us, Indeed!
We’re all feeling the crunch of being challenged, aren’t we? If it’s not the pandemic’s anti-versus-got’em vaxers, the political unrest, economic hardship, it’s the most current and war-scary headlines of the Ukraine’s invasion by Russia in our newsfeeds. Or it’s … well, you name it. Being human means dealing with stress. Some of us need…
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