Today I am celebrating Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts - http://www.smithfarm.com/. I have been working as an artist-in-residence for Smith Farm since 2001. Click here to learn about the program: http://www.smithfarm.com/sfc-misc.html#artist. My work at Howard University Hospital began in...

I finally succumbed to the 25 things you don't know about me after reading Blog Diva Liza's list. http://culturekitchen.com/liza/blog/twenty_five_things_you_dont_know_about_me 1. The first time my family went to Puerto Rico in 1978 I secretly wished I was an Afro-Latina. I fell in love with the isla...

I'm fine, but just to share an unexpected thought pattern to watch for I thought about buying a bottle before checking into the hotel..just crossed my mind...a little odd cause i could imagine it. I've been thinking about the clean up and how i'm gonna have to go over to that big empty house to pick...

For Immediate Release http://www.prlog.org/10174494-author-ananda-leeke-shares-contemplative-practices-at-sacred-circles-conference.html PRLog (Press Release) – Jan 29, 2009 – Washington, DC - Ananda Kiamsha Madelyn Leeke, an author, artist, creativity coach, yoga teacher, and Reiki Master pract...

My Creative Spirit Archetype - Kiamsha Photo Credit: Leigh Mosley - www.leighmosley.com NOTE: I had some formatting challenges with Blogger. Please be patient with the post. I could not get the paragraph and spacing functions to work. That's why I used different font colors . Blessings All, This mor...

Love Mentalism: Be Love, Love Light (No pun intended!) by Ananda Leeke Acrylic painting - 2005 The painting reflects what happens in Ananda's body when she surrenders to the divine flow of creative energy and allows it to move freely through her seven chakras (energy centers) to create love as a way...

Click on the link to watch a YouTube video of John Coltrane performing A Love Supreme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92T4DQqQApE . 9 Days After A Love Supreme by Ananda Leeke Copyright 2008 by Madelyn C. Leeke. Excerpt from That Which Awakens Me (Winter 2009, iUniverse, Inc.) What's Next. 43 ends. ...

Tim'm T. West's new CD - In Security: The Golden Error Tim'm M. West - www.reddirt.biz Tim'm and me at the 14th and U Cafe (2007) Blessings All, Today marks the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day. This morning I thought about my brothalove friend and kindred spirit Tim'm T. West (http://www.reddirt....

How My Love Affair with Art Began by Ananda LeekeCopyright 2008 by Madelyn C. Leeke. Excerpt from That Which Awakens Me (Winter 2009, iUniverse, Inc.) #1 Living in my mother’s white and pink trimmed house on Manson Place in Landover, Maryland during the late 1960s and 1970s was an art adventure. S...

Six-Word Memoir - All Souls: A time to celebrate All Souls: A time to celebrate, an excerpt from That Which Awakens Me by Ananda Leeke Copyright 2008 by Madelyn C. Leeke. Yesterday I woke up feeling a little out of sorts. I didn't sleep well. I was filled with fear. I didn't want to explore or name ...