Gathering Light 27 60x60" Oil on canvas ©2014 Janice Mason Steeves "To have a sacred place is an absolute necessity for anybody today. You must have a room or a certain hour of the day or so, where you do not know who your friends are, you don't know what you owe anybody or what they owe you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be." Joseph Campbell In an earlier post , I wrote about my own process of lighting a candle as I begin my day in the studio . And in my workshops, I have a little ritual of beginning. I start each day with a meditation or a poem. I read poems by Mary Oliver or David Whyte or John O'Donohue among others. At home, I like to start each day slowly and quietly. When my children were little, I would wake up before them to have a few quiet moments before the hectic day began. And in the same way, I like to approach my day of work in the studio in a quiet, though...