Hollow Bone Creative Healing Arts

01/25/2026

The Bardo is a Buddhist concept that puts the soul through a process of purification, awareness, and liberation after death and before rebirth. My dear teacher taught us this sacred process to assist the dead through the Six Bardos. It is said that our souls move through these stages, or gaps, in order to break the cycle of Samsara (illusion driven by karma).

We pray the bardo for all our loved ones. Since Covid, I have developed the discipline of praying the Bardo for all those that die suddenly or tragically. I believe those souls that are not prepared to die may be confused and not know how to move through the tests the guardians of each Bardo puts one through.

I prayed the Bardo for Renee Nicole Good and now I am praying the Bardo for Alex Jeffry Pretti.

If you know the Bardo and want to join me, please do so. If you do not know the Bardo but want to contribute to the healing energy for these two souls, all you need to do is this instead:

Find a quiet place where you can rest your breath and awareness.

Connect to your compassionate heart and the love that resides there.

Say their full name three times.

Speak with authority and love.

Tell these souls that it is ok to let go. That everything for them, will be fine.

Reassure them of the love surrounding them and thank them for their sacrifice. Remind them that they need to move on and not to get stuck in the suffering of the world.

In whatever way you pray, or meditate, or simply set intention, picture them released from this mortal body and accept their return to Oneness.

May all Beings be free
May all Beings find peace

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01/25/2026

The Mind of Great Love

“The mind of Great Love, when directed to the Buddhas is called devotion, when directed to all sentient beings without exception is called compassion. Drubwang Rinpoche always raised his hand and said, ‘May all sentient beings benefit’, and truly there is no aspiration greater than this. It doesn’t matter whether one calls oneself a Buddhist or not a Buddhist. The Dharma is love. When you see how your love touches others, it will become your happiness to give your happiness away.

What is called ‘blessings’ is nothing more but love. If you are self-centered, your mind becomes narrow, like a block of ice. But when you let go and send out love to others, you will notice how your mind expands. The mind becomes open and spacious, like a vast ocean or the sky.

When you give rise to love for sentient beings, then we are exactly the same. Ultimately, self and other are just thoughts. When we see that, we are not separate from others, we begin to fathom the preciousness of compassion, of bodhicitta.Love is the only cause of happiness. Its nature is all-pervasive like space. Love is the sunlight of the mind.”

HE Garchen Rinpoche

01/23/2026

Your death is more certain than your marriage. Yet we spend our lives chasing romance, validation, and forever promises— while ignoring the only certainty that walks beside us every day.

In Buddhism, this awareness is called maranasati — mindfulness of death.
Not to create fear, but to awaken urgency, clarity, and depth.

Because when you truly understand that death is guaranteed, you stop wasting your life scrolling for approval.
You stop begging to be chosen.
You stop postponing inner work.

So instead of searching endlessly for a soulmate, start working on your soul, mate.

Don’t swipe for love.
Sit with yourself.
Discipline your mind.
Purify your intentions.
Strengthen your character.

The Buddha never promised romance would save you. He taught that liberation comes from within.

Build a soul so steady that pleasure doesn’t distract it. KSo disciplined that fear can’t control it.
So awake that even death meets it with respect.

Because when the final moment arrives,
no one else can walk it for you.

Not your partner.
Not your status.
Not your stories.

Only the soul you cultivated will stand with you.

So choose wisely what you build—
a fantasy of forever,
or a soul strong enough to face impermanence without regret.

(Writer- I forgot where I got this from. If someone knows, please let me know so I can credit their writing.)

01/20/2026

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

01/19/2026

01/18/2026

Today is my peaceful day.
And yet, I do not turn away from the suffering in the world.
Instead, I lean into it and love it even harder.

12/27/2025

"Every time I think I am healed, another wound whispers beneath my skin, another memory rises like smoke from the ashes of old versions of me, but maybe healing is not a destination, maybe it is the brave act of walking through your own ruins and still planting flowers."

~ R. M. Drake
Photography: Viviana D.

12/26/2025

“One day when you wake up,
you will find that you've become a forest. You've grown roots and found strength in them that no one thought you had.

You have become stronger and more beautiful, full of life giving qualities.
You have learned to take all the negativity around you, and turn it into oxygen for easy breathing.

A host of wild creatures live inside you, and you call them stories.
A variety of beautiful birds nest inside your mind, and you call them memories.

You have become an incredible self sustaining thing of epic proportions.
And you should be so proud of yourself, of how far you have come from the seeds of who you used to be.”

~ Nikita Gill

12/26/2025

And then…
there is Terrence McKenna…
putting it all in perfect perspective.

12/25/2025

I have been deeply called to enter stillness these next couple of weeks.

Integration is needed to honor the growth, healing, awareness, and wisdom this year has brought.

We often forget the integration part of healing that requires silence and depth. …Of deep communion with the Soul…. Much like sleep allows our brains to integrate the millions of signals we process daily, a contemplative time of rest is needed to anchor the medicine of what has transformed in our lives.

May you find pockets of stillness today and as this year draws to a close.

My art sister captures this mood perfectly.

“I’m being called to
enter the silence.

To dream and rest.
To create an opening
for possibilities and
potential still to come.

To tend the seed
that is even now
gestating in the dark.

Held in the cave of
both past and future,
I’m wrapped in the warmth
of myths and ancient ways.

Held by the ancestral mothers,
I enter the stillness of this time.”

Poem by: Arlene Bailey
Photography by: Viviana D