Go in, press in, to get out. unfuck yourself - photo by Julie Spodeck

Venus retrograde . . . Notice if anyone from your past reaches out to you (either in conscious waking life or in a dream). What does this person represent for you? What was good about this relationship? What was not good? What initially brought you together?

Art is not a luxury. Art is essential. Its purpose is to reflect, convey, express the beauty and the struggle of what it is to be human.

I knew coming back to NY to help with my mom would mean isolation. What I didn't count on was how difficult coming out of isolation would be.

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floss your mind. write write write

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Nobility of Trees Where are you solid? How deep and strong are your roots in dignity, compassion, and integrity?

You can't fly with someone else's wings when you've clipped your own.

image: astral flowers © holly troy 8.2028 the edge of house dreaming

early hours

threading through space and time

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Mom's birthday falling on a Lunar Eclipse this year was fitting. The in-between time of the Lunar Eclipse and next week's Solar Eclipse already feels like something has changed for me on a deep level. "I shared a little while back that I was still coming out of the underworld. It feels like now I am closer to the mouth of the cave." image: studio in the morning © holly troy 2025

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"Act locally, think cosmically." - Rick Levine image from Patrick's message - artist unknown

One of the first bands to captivate my young imagination - I spent countless hours studying the album cover while listening to Candy-O.

Special Plum Doodle 628 Time Travel on Paper Page from my journal when I was in yoga teacher’s training at Sivananda Ashram in 1996. If time loots away , you might as well have fun. Why be a miser with your life?Mind is not individual, it is connected to the total. Once you begin inquiring, Maya disappears.The world is a reflection of your own mind.

Mandala painting by Jill Sans. sam·sa·ra /səmˈsärə/ the cycle of death and rebirth to which life in the material world is bound.

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Be, Do, Have slowly reveals itself!

If only I was thinking way beyond my circumstance . . . image: blue circle orange leaf © holly troy 2026

Sometimes things take time, but when the time is right . . .

floss your mind. write write write

There is only one rule: keep your hand moving.

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closer than you think image: mama cat love © holly troy 2026

love, faith, and trust make change a whole lot easier

We all deserve love. photo: Holly Troy

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When green turns to gold.

What falls away makes space for what's next. ~ ~ ~ image: golden blue © holly troy 8.2026

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Time is everything and nothing

Lost tape from the shoe box vault! Some never-before released material from the Halfbreeds.

Time slipping in mutable Virgo Season!

Sun is in Virgo August 22, 2026 to September 22, 2026 image: virgo flowers © holly troy 2026

It's assumptions that tend to get me into trouble.

Reader Response / American Sentence image: all the words in pictures © Holly Troy 2025

Language is sacred. image: blue green sunset © holly troy 2025

forbidden word project image: lotus fire © holly troy 2026 "The impact of microaggressions is shaped by the dilemma of unconscious bias: perpetrators of microaggressions may view their actions or motivations differently than targets do, especially when offenders can ignore or dismiss implicit bias if it is in fact present." - wikipedia

when only the best will do!

That saying, “How you do anything is how you do everything,” feels about right. Art, music, performance, readings, teaching, learning, relationships – same approach.

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forbidden word project image: all are welcome © holly troy 2026 "Coining the concept “micro-affirmations” points to the ethical aspect that seems to be present in most appellations: what is said or done involve the experience of being valued by another in some way (Ness 2016; Bøe et al. 2015)." - Community Mental Health Journal

David Bowie will forever be in my heart and consciousness.