Category Archives: Art of the Path

Brooklyn Rainbow

Posted on April 16, 2015 by Nancy Wait

A poet friend once called me an
“Over-the-Rainbow-Survivor.”
Now, while it was true I had the ring to prove it, I didn’t understand the full meaning of that phrase until later.
Not until today, actually, when I looked again at the pastel painting I did over the weekend of a rainbow intersecting the Brooklyn Bridge, its light shimmering on the water. Continue reading →

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Flowering Through the Mists of Time

Posted on March 12, 2015 by Nancy Wait

I remembered the title as The Yellow Primrose, and forty years later, when I began writing about the past, I tried to find the book again. Continue reading →

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That Soothing Art

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Nancy Wait

As you transform a blank canvas or blank sheet of paper into a viable picture (whatever that may be), you also transform your way of being in the world. Continue reading →

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From Prison to Prism

Posted on January 3, 2015 by Nancy Wait

Prison and prism. For me these two images represent transformation of a dark passage into a lighted one, and summarizes the path I’ve been on. It feels right to share this at the beginning of a new year when a whole new phase is opening up for us. One that will bring more openness and light into the world. Continue reading →

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The Dancer and the Dance

Posted on August 2, 2014 by Nancy Wait

I am a medical student, dissecting the body of the past. I cut, not into the flesh and bone of 3D life, but into the subtle body, the energetic psychic body swollen with memories. I watch it bleed. Then I … Continue reading →

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The Hot Seat

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Nancy Wait

I was introduced to the hot seat back in London in the 70s when I joined a Gestalt therapy group in Chelsea. We sat on cushions on the floor and though our hot seat was simply another cushion, it was … Continue reading →

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Through Art

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Nancy Wait

I can’t save the world, but I can show the world how I saved myself. Through Art. Volume One of my memoir set the stage. The Nancy Who Drew       Volume Two, in progress, takes me across the … Continue reading →

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Inner Sanctum

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Nancy Wait

The doorway under water came to me in a dream back in 1976. There was no mistaking the meaning of the vision. It was a dream about ego-death, hitting bottom, and afterwards, being given entry to the inner world. The … Continue reading →

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When a Still-Life Moves

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Nancy Wait

In this excerpt from “Christmas Holiday” by W. Somerset Maugham (1939), Charley and Lydia are at the museum looking at a still-life by Chardin (pages 240-242). “Chardin,” he said. “Yes, I’ve seen that before.” “But have you ever looked at … Continue reading →

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Tuning Into A Frequency

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Nancy Wait

Tuning into a frequency, vibing on a thought-pattern, focusing, aligning, attracting, magnifying similarities. All of these come to mind when I think of the ease in which I’ve been gathering material for additional input on my topic for The Healing … Continue reading →

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