Deno's Playland

The teepee was a quiet healing retreat in the maze of Dean Petrich's Playland home.

Deans Birthday party

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Dean's Birthday Tour

 Beautiful Savanah!  Delightful girl ... we had fun coaxing her to pose for us.  She agreed to sit should we give her a piece of paper and a chance to do her own painting, which she did!  I wish I'd taken a picture, I could post it here.  We delighted in walking your grounds, poking around your house, sketching whatever spoke to us.

Enjoyed myself thoroughly.  Thank you, Dean!

And then, I came across Sunny napping on your picnic table ... I couldn't resist!!!

We felt so welcomed.  Thank you.

Dean's Birthday Tour

Happy art by children who are now adults. Secret tunnels, twirling pools, zip lines, towers and quiet sacred spaces. And pianos....so many of them. Imagine the stories all those pianos could tell. Oh, the magic of it all.

Sketching at Dean Petrich's family compound

I have always been drawn to small, sacred spaces. The Sun Circle above a lake where I pitched a tent in Michigan, the stone circle at the Earth Sanctuary, the Zendo at One Drop Monastery and yesterday, this tipi where our hostess, Tammy, meditates daily and follows her own personal search for comfort and answers. I must find God in them. I know I always feel safe in them.