Greetings, dear Visitor!
Thanks for stopping by. Can we offer you a cup of tea? A bowl of fresh organic blueberries perhaps ? We're still under construction around here with our new ArtLight website, so thanks for your patience. Pull up a chair and tell us your story. We're all ears. How's this website working for you - or how is it NOT working?! How's your life -- we'd like to know about you.
ArtLight Studio, pictured here, sits in the middle of a 95-year-old, 33-acre homestead nestled at the western base of the Coast Range, about 10 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. The land is hugged on two sides by a bend in the Nestucca River and is overseen on a third by a magical land form we call "our mountain" -- a big hill graced with a mix of spruce, alder, vine maple, and cedar, very typical of this bio-region. Known as The Bend at Moon Creek, this sacred land is a wildlife refuge, home to deer, elk, bear, an occasional cougar, moles, beaver, one semi-domesticated cat, some roaming semi-feral cats, and two domesticated humans.
Come for a visit and you may see, depending on the time of year, Snow Geese, various types of hummingbirds, Swainson's Thrush, Great Egrets, Red-Winged Blackbirds, Black-headed Grosbeaks, Stellar's Jays, Green Herons, Red-Breasted Sapsuckers, Bald Eagles, Common Ravens and many other birds. Some are year-round visitors, others stop by in seasonal migration. We humans living here are devoted to ever more conscious living. We practice and learn through cooperation, communication, gardening, meditation and service.
It was my dream 20 years ago to live in such a place. I left 17 wonderful years in Dallas, TX behind me when I made my way west at the age of 40. I was a woman with a vision. Like many others, I hoped to raise my own spirits and learn to live harmoniously and a bit closer to the land -- closer to the Spirit within me. I wanted a quieter and simpler life than what was driving me in the city. I wanted to be in service to a place that could offer refuge to others seeking inner peace and art-making as viable means to a more peaceful, healthy planet.
In 2000, after living eight beautiful years in Clatsop County in Oregon (the northwestern-most county, where the Pacific Ocean and Columbia River join), I crossed the bridge onto the sacred land where I now live and stepped foot for the first time on the land called "The Bend at Moon Creek." And I met Joyce Cochran who had been living and breathing a quiet, peaceful life here for 8 years by then. She too had moved to Oregon in 1992, from Spokane, WA.
Together, we've taken our shared dream further toward its fulfillment. Each day, we listen deeply and discern The Way that this land wants us to unfold ourselves in support of our evolutionary, conscious purpose here on this Earth.
Your visits to ArtLight Media help us sustain our simple, homegrown lifestyle. Each purchase you make serves our peaceful vision and allows us to serve our rural community in many far-reaching ways. We thank you! Come for a personal retreat sometime soon. We are here to serve your needs for deep refreshment.
Blessings!
Dana & Joyce
Thanks for stopping by. Can we offer you a cup of tea? A bowl of fresh organic blueberries perhaps ? We're still under construction around here with our new ArtLight website, so thanks for your patience. Pull up a chair and tell us your story. We're all ears. How's this website working for you - or how is it NOT working?! How's your life -- we'd like to know about you.
ArtLight Studio, pictured here, sits in the middle of a 95-year-old, 33-acre homestead nestled at the western base of the Coast Range, about 10 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. The land is hugged on two sides by a bend in the Nestucca River and is overseen on a third by a magical land form we call "our mountain" -- a big hill graced with a mix of spruce, alder, vine maple, and cedar, very typical of this bio-region. Known as The Bend at Moon Creek, this sacred land is a wildlife refuge, home to deer, elk, bear, an occasional cougar, moles, beaver, one semi-domesticated cat, some roaming semi-feral cats, and two domesticated humans.
Come for a visit and you may see, depending on the time of year, Snow Geese, various types of hummingbirds, Swainson's Thrush, Great Egrets, Red-Winged Blackbirds, Black-headed Grosbeaks, Stellar's Jays, Green Herons, Red-Breasted Sapsuckers, Bald Eagles, Common Ravens and many other birds. Some are year-round visitors, others stop by in seasonal migration. We humans living here are devoted to ever more conscious living. We practice and learn through cooperation, communication, gardening, meditation and service.
It was my dream 20 years ago to live in such a place. I left 17 wonderful years in Dallas, TX behind me when I made my way west at the age of 40. I was a woman with a vision. Like many others, I hoped to raise my own spirits and learn to live harmoniously and a bit closer to the land -- closer to the Spirit within me. I wanted a quieter and simpler life than what was driving me in the city. I wanted to be in service to a place that could offer refuge to others seeking inner peace and art-making as viable means to a more peaceful, healthy planet.
In 2000, after living eight beautiful years in Clatsop County in Oregon (the northwestern-most county, where the Pacific Ocean and Columbia River join), I crossed the bridge onto the sacred land where I now live and stepped foot for the first time on the land called "The Bend at Moon Creek." And I met Joyce Cochran who had been living and breathing a quiet, peaceful life here for 8 years by then. She too had moved to Oregon in 1992, from Spokane, WA.
Together, we've taken our shared dream further toward its fulfillment. Each day, we listen deeply and discern The Way that this land wants us to unfold ourselves in support of our evolutionary, conscious purpose here on this Earth.
Your visits to ArtLight Media help us sustain our simple, homegrown lifestyle. Each purchase you make serves our peaceful vision and allows us to serve our rural community in many far-reaching ways. We thank you! Come for a personal retreat sometime soon. We are here to serve your needs for deep refreshment.
Blessings!
Dana & Joyce
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