Reading - "A Secret Brightening" by Patti Tronolone
Patti Tronolone is an artist, poet and healer currently living in Northern New Mexico. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, she began writing poetry as a young woman while also pursuing a successful career as an art furniture maker, printer and painter. At 33 Patti began a lifelong exploration of Reiki, a refined energy healing practice, which led her into a focused study of dreams and how they might heal and guide our lives. Her knowledge of the teachings of Carl Jung, James Hillman and Robert A Johnson, as well as an intensive 10-year apprenticeship with a spiritual mentor, have all informed this practice. In this book, Patti brings together all of the multi-layered elements of her talent, threading the worlds of painting, poetry, and dream interpretation, each discipline enriched and illuminated by the others. Her luminous and psychologically powerful landscapes stand side by side with the poetry of dreams and visions. To experience these two art forms side by side is to travel into realms in which nature, dream and human experience join their bountiful powers.