250th Anniversary of the United States of America!
I want to start off by saying Happy Happy 4th of July to everyone! I feel like I’ve been waiting my whole life for this moment, the 250th Anniversary of the United States of America and the rest of this beautiful Earth.
Betsy Ross overlooking the White House with pink beaming lights above.
Please scroll down to section 3 if you are interested in my art-journey-world of the holy number 888 doubled to 1776, its significance of the creation of the United States of America and why today’s celebration is one of the greatest in the history of the world!
I had much bigger plans for the first half of this year with finally putting some of my explorations and discoveries out into the world, spiritual and historical, all the incredible moments I have gathered over the past 20+ years. The majority of it in the spiritual creation of the United States, 1776, the connection to Jesus and Mary what it means for us, the rest of the world and the Universe.
But here I am, this morning, sitting in our art studio with an all white kitten that we recently rescued off of the major highway ‘death road’ called Market Street. Really, he rescued himself by miraculously zig zagging across 6 lanes of traffic and climbing into our engine while we were stopped at a red light!? It’s a long story but I we have spent the past 8 months immersed in rescue cats, vet visits, heartbreak, more vet visits, and now, healing kitten land.
Kitten Buddha Smile perfection🪷☀️💕
Some pics of this Joyful fur ball, the first one is after his double bath and a big meal💗 He is really really special. When I say living in the moment or seizing every moment of every day as the greatest gift, this is what he embodies. Pure Love and no fear from a miniature kitty that had, only a few hours before, been covered with embedded fleas and so greasy dirty you could barely tell he is pure white with a cream dipped tail🌟
Lumi - the light bringer. His eyes were still changing color when he dropped into our lives. One eye remained the brightest clearest blue and the other has changed to a beautiful green-hazel🪷
We named him Lumi, Finnish for Snow and Latin for Light, the luminous one✨ When we brought him to the vet a few days later he came in at 8 weeks, just over 1 ½ pounds and barely the length of my hand. He looks way bigger in pictures, must be his super-sized personality 🐅💥 It brings tears to my eyes to write these words and how much spontaneous laughter and lightness he has brought into our home these last couple of weeks.
Despite all of this going on, the 250th anniversary has been on my mind for well over a year, waiting with the greatest anticipation. I was a few years old when the 200th occurred and I still have these little items from 1976, buried deep in my childhood home garage for many years.
The energy of the American Flag
Over time, I have gathered some new items and, while I know the world feels upside down at this moment, we are headed into a very special time, spiritual angel beings and many on earth have been working on this for at least hundreds of years, but in my experience, it has been for a much longer period.
So for the ones trying to make sense of the current chaos, I say, look at the beauty around us, imagine the goodness in the hearts of people and pray with joy. That will bring our spirits to the place needed to hold earth during this exceptional opening. This is not a religious call in a sense of where we have been deliberately divided, it is a call to the true nature of humans and their infinite wonder.
We do have an inalienable right to happiness, that is not some fantasy (even though it feels like it at the moment). We all deserve peace and of course, Liberty. So I say, focus on that in your heart of hearts. Minimize the distractions, and even if you are having a hard time, suffering for any one of the myriad of reasons we suffer these days, hold that inspiration and goodness. By putting out that energy in force into the world, it can and will override the ever-perpetuated darkness that we are reminded of minute by minute, day-by-day. I am saying this as much to myself as anyone else, it’s not easy but if there is one thing I am sure of, this is it.
The images below are located in a museum I visited in Morristown when doing a photoshoot New Years Day circa 2012 in northern New Jersey. Beautiful area!
#1) A well known portrait artist from the colony of Rhode Island, Gilbert Stuart’s version of George Washington, the Athenaeum Portrait. #2) A painting of George called the Apotheosis of Washington. After his death, there was this feeling throughout the world of his heroic nature, depicted as rising to Immortality and Lady Liberty’s protection of this new nation: including winged Father Time; Faith, Hope & Charity; Native American with two rattlesnakes & an Eagle.
A plaque in downtown Manhattan where George Washington was inaugurated as President of the United States. The original Federal Hall where George took his oath of office in 1789 was torn down. He lived on Cherry Street that first year! How many of you did not know that? I have been obsessed with all things George and didn’t discover that he was inaugurated in NYC and lived there during the beginning of his first presidency until after my Project 1776 photoshoot at Federal Hall circa 2010-2011, how wild!
While I may have missed today’s opportunity for my artwork storytelling journey that led me to the important discovery of the significance of 1776, and the celebration of the 250th, I will re-make my promise to myself to continue the rest of the year.
Because the true cause for celebration on this anniversary is not one day. It is the beginning of a grandness that we have earned and must see fulfilled. The most simple way to create a visual is there are different forces at play, and the one we focus our attention on, give our God energy to, in some strange way, gets re-enforced, continues to perpetuate.
I really mean this in the most basic scientific way and very far from any new age spiritual talk. My experience has been with Mary and Jesus, a buddha or two and the universes that surround. Again, not in a religious way, but in the most simple honest way imaginable.
Society of Cincinnati, I also have a photo of an interesting ceramic bowl. Learning about this group was huge!
I trust my experiences and I trust that when we come from the pure place in our hearts, the creativity too for all you artists out there, everything else comes easily and naturally. When our hearts open to knowledge and we are able to step away from our brains, then the flicker of newness and creation happens automatically. Let’s take something that is rare and make it our everyday!
Times are going to get strange (or even stranger) and grounding and praying and listening with our true hearts is going to be what moves us forward with decisions that support and the ability to exist and expand the Gold World.
The detail in George Washington’s inaugural sword is magnificent and the paper currencies backed by precious metal, the way it should be!
There was a period of time when individuals were creating and envisioning the images that represented this new country, many well known historical figures, more than you’d think. And versions of what came to be the American flag. Incredible.
What 1776-2026 Part II will look like.
A short writing about my next post: Around 2007, I received a call for freelance design consulting work in the Midwest. At the time I wasn’t too excited about the prospect of spending my days out in what I considered a no man’s land. I was comfortable in my East Village world, thinking I had all I needed and knew everything there was to know. (I am admitting here that my artist life in the NYC bubble was very small minded, as it would turn out).
Luckily the package and pay was very generous and I am always up for an adventure, so I agreed. Little did I know that this small ‘job’ would open an artistic pursuit that continues to this day. Prior to heading out for this freelance gig, I was told of some ancient cultures out there that I might find interesting, a mysterious civilization labeled simply the Mound Builders.
It peaked my interest so after a bit of research I came across and purchased a few books through the Edgar Cayce Foundation, one of which was aptly named the Mound Builders. I will have to look through my notebooks, but I believe I also discovered The Mystery of the Serpent Mound in the dollar bin at the old school used bookstore Strand in NYC. This fascinating book is based on an ancient structure - the Serpent Mound - found in southern Ohio, only a few hours drive from New Albany, Ohio, the site of my consultation work.
This book discovery coupled with the Mound Builder sites has informed some of my most meaningful explorations to date and inevitably led to past 15 years travels and creation of the Project 1776 photo Series.
Every weekend for 3 months I visited different Native mounds and animal effigies (large scale ancient ‘drawings’ of sacred animals using stone and earth mound shapes best seen from air, which makes you wonder!)
The Serpent Mound book and the experiences of visiting Serpent Mound and many of the nearby ancient sites nearly 20 years ago is what connected me to the real Jesus, The Son-Sun of God, and his number - 888. The revelation for me came with the doubling of 888 equaling 1776 and its true significance:
Ultimately, the divine creation of the United States to support the whole world and the culmination of the Great Work in 2030-2032. (there is a Big reason certain groups are chasing that number.) Again our purpose is to support and propel all that is Good, Goodness as being during these next few years. It’s fascinating and mind bending and I am excited to share my own personal journey through this world, in modern times.
Antique postcard from a ‘garage’ sale-block party on Stuyvesant St at St Mark’s Church, East Village NYC @2010
Short text I wrote in 2007 for my Serpent Mound Landscape Installation photoshoot:
“Shot on location in Brush Creek Valley, this Landscape Installation series features Lady Santa traveling to the Serpent Mound, an ancient site hidden in the woods, overlooking a cliff in southern Ohio. It is her home, what it means to 'be born of the celestial woman'. Serpent Mound (Pythias) is so ancient that most natives say they know not of its origins. The Hopi, ancestors of the 'Ancient Ones' of Mesa Verde, consider the Serpent Mound the most sacred site of their most ancient ancestors. and Its creation is the physical embodiment of all the knowledge of the Universe.
It is the ultimate Alchemical symbol, the true Grail. Those that visit with an open heart will be transformed forever. It is the vessel of the Solar Mysteries, the Mystery of the Logos (the Word). It bids the question, what does it truly mean to be a 'Native' American. This Landscape Installation series is the culmination of my exploration of the midwest Mound Builder culture and an homage to the honest pursuit or envelopment of the Great Work. To live within that through an eternity, to be that in a human form. The Crow.” @2007
Serpent Mound Drawing
Peabody Museum, Yale University
In my research of the ‘why?’ of this particular location I discovered that scientists have studied the ‘stone’ cliff the Serpent Mound rests on and have not been able to find any other earthly substance that matches this rock and have determined the strong possibility of an outlier source.
Things set in land years ago are rising and bearing fruit and coming into existence or re-emerging from an ancient and spiritually significant time. It coincides with the Mayan Katun, something I also stumbled upon prior to 2007 midwest exploration, as well as the Southwest Hopis (2010) and the connection to Hokulea (Arcturus star) and Hawaii I explored beginning 2014-2016. We are asked to energetically ground with our hearts and entire being.
Kittyface enjoying the 4th of July heat. By himself 🌟
So I will leave it at that for today, my original kitty, Kittyface, is pacing and wants to go outside for a sidewalk stroll before I reach the melting point in this heat wave. I am sending huge love to everyone, hope you all have the best day ever and I send love to New Jersey, the land that raised me and made my love for this world visible to my own heart.
‘To thine own self be true.’ - William Shakespeare
RIP Sweet Patchygirl, March 25, 2026🌟 Our time together was short, yet our love for you remains huge ❤️