The secret is to be able to love
Love
The unloveable.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022


Another year is about to begin and here is
my 2023 Art & Affirmation Calendar
to inspire, uplift you each and every month
for a price of $20.00
My calendar is a 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ standing flip calendar.
It features each month, an inspirational Affirmation
and selected Art, created from one of my Pet Portrait Commissions.
$2.00 from the sale of each Calendar
will go to
Inugoya Rehoming and Rehabilitation.
A non profit organization mainly focused on German Shepherds and Rottweilers
but when they’re able, assist with other working breeds.
A very special organization, deserving of all the help we can give them.




Then I heard the calling voice say
Believe in yourself, believe today
Believing is the only way.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2018




Months, maybe a year later I can’t recall, a friend was going thru a difficult time. She was lost, spiralling. I felt she needed something to hang onto, get herself steady, stabilized. See her way out of her troubles.
One morning it came to me… Why not post my affirmations, my poetry on my blog, accompanied by my art and photos? This could be a place where my friend could come daily. Maybe to be inspired to find solutions to her troubles, know she wasn’t alone.
So, that’s how my blog began and why I came to be here.
It is my hope my words, my art and photos will bring pleasure, enjoyment and inspiration to your life.
© Patrice Clarkson – 2015

Sometime around then along with 4 or 5 other ladies, I attended a workshop called, The Artist’s Way. We were using Julia Cameron’s book by the same name.
My purpose in going was to unlock the block I was and had been dealing with for years. To start painting again, not just hide, going in circles, accomplishing nothing. Spiralling into self-hate and depression.
To digress a little…
When I was a whole lot younger, I used to do what I called ‘Automatic Writing’. That meant I’d just start writing down whatever words I saw in my head. Not trying to figure out why I needed to write them down or where the thoughts came from. Just write.
My explanation then and now was that the words were coming from somewhere, someone who wanted, needed a voice. I became their channel.
The Artist Way workshop brought all this back and some. Not only showing me how to love myself but to write daily, expressing my feelings in multiple pages and at the end, Affirmations.
Life was good.
~ to be continued
© Patrice Clarkson – 2015