Some ideas about lighting

Here's some thoughts about lighting -I think most rooms are underlit. I don't have a particularly large living room, but I have about 18 sources of light in it. On one table I have four lamps, all different sizes. Most the the lighting in the room is ambient. I think the biggest mistake people make when choosing lighting is they want their ambient lighting to also be their task lighting. So by your favorite chair where you love to read get a dedicated reading light. Ambient lighting in a room will make all the difference in how you feel in that room. It will create a warm and friendly feeling. Another thing is to have different levels of lighting. Torchieres are really important to wash light up high on walls and ceilings. You can also create lifts and levels to raise up a table lamp. Just look around the room and see if the lighting is all on one level. If it is start playing around with ways to create different heights.

Also, dimmers, dimmers, dimmers.

Love,

Diane

The river and the sea

My dear friends David and Zane are in Italy. (See the David Farnsworth series on the site). I got a postcard from them yesterday describing being at a spot where the river and the sea meet. David said he had an overwhelming moment of surrender to a larger place. Inside each of us is that spot of surrender where the river and the sea meet I think.

Love,

Diane

Stay with the Love

Hi,

When you are looking at my site you will notice the saying Stay with the Love in several places, I thought I would tell you where that came from. Not too long after 9/11 I had a very intense dream and in the dream there was a beautiful mandala, very ornate and colorful. The mandala was all about if we were going to stay with the love or stay in the fear. Just two very distinct choices. I was so struck with this I actually had buttons made that said Stay with the Love and gave them to all my friends and handed them out at my shows. I thought at the time the dream was all about 9/11 and where we as a country were headed. Now it's 2007 and I've just realized in the last year that that dream had a much more personal message to me. It was all about if I would stay in the love or stay in the fear. I've been working on this for a number of years now. Call it what you will, light vs. dark, ego vs. spirit, love vs. fear. So the dream was a call to me and I think many of you out there can feel the same call. I don't always get there, but every day I try to Stay with the Love.

So love to all who read this.

Diane