Mary Jane Miller's latest book will delight the reader as well has help learn Spanish. The new book is a bi cultural adventure and true story set in Mexico on a Ranch outside of San Miguel de Allende in the early 70's. The Gomez family accepted her inability to understand what for her was a new world with tolerance and love. The Ranch book is a chronicle of ridiculously simple situations live out by a girl from Boston who was completely unprepared. Like Water for Chocolate, these ... Read More about Learn Spanish
On Being, Observing Stillness
These strange rocks I photographed while in New Zealand. Ironically most of them live under water for twelve hours each day as the tides comes in and out. Our whole self is seldom exposed in full. We are satisfied to have secret parts of ourselves unseen hidden under water. This became a perfect metaphor for a recent two month retreat; I focused on being, observing stillness. On the shore of Long Beach Bay in Auckland the rocks were hidden each day beneath the tide. If we try for a few hours of ... Read More about On Being, Observing Stillness
Christ Consciousness is Energy Outside Time and Space
Mary Jane Miller has been working on a new collection of contemporary icons called On Holy Ground. The work focuses on care for our planet Earth. “I began working on the collection at Vaughan Park Retreat Center, Auckland, NZ in September 2019. The entire finished collection will be posted with my lilliputian divine message for Earth. By January, 2020 I expect the collection to be completed.” Christ consciousness is energy outside time and space. For us to see it as such, requires a growing ... Read More about Christ Consciousness is Energy Outside Time and Space
Iconography Lecture Series at Vaughan Park
As the resident scholar for September and October I have been asked to present a four Iconography Lecture Series at Vaughan Park Anglican Retreat Center. I would be delighted to invite anyone local or visiting to explore Sacred Image and its Language. ... Read More about Iconography Lecture Series at Vaughan Park
Best Icon Painting Workshop 2020
Mary Jane Miller is offering two icon painting workshops this spring, February and March of 2020. The first will be in Vero Beach, Florida and the second in Lewis Delaware. Both workshops will commence at the beginning of Lent, a wonderful preparation for Easter and Passover. Egg Tempera is a painting technique that has been used for centuries but not forgotten. It is gratifying to learn and inexpensive with earth pigments. The final product has the potential for reminding you who you ... Read More about Best Icon Painting Workshop 2020
