by Nate Long | Dec 1, 2022 | Illustration, Journey Work
Cherries There are cherries being picked.Glorious dark round rubies,One by one filling the silver bowl,By the small hand of a child,By the wrinkled, calloused hand of an elder,By your hand, my dear friend. There is joy and anticipationOf the juicy and the sweet,As one...
by Nate Long | Nov 10, 2022 | Illustration, Journey Work
The Girl and the Birds A Journey to a cityscape where shadowy figures move behind locked windows and doors. They are there of their own volition. They hide from the improbable, the insignificant, the unlikely. They fear. Outside these buildings where the self-made...
by Nate Long | Oct 21, 2022 | Illustration, Journey Work
My partner and wife, Lindsay Falling into the tempo. Looking for balance. Looking for my Center. Because my Center feels misplaced at this moment in life. The beats start to become visually pronounced like symbols on a musical score. Each beat is a fixed and constant...
by Nate Long | Oct 5, 2022 | Illustration, Journey Work
Meeting Owl and Wasp I have a vision while meditating in the woods this evening, where Owl came to me. In the crotch of two giant tree limbs coming out parallel to the ground is a hole where a large family of bright red wasps live. I know I’m supposed to go into...
by Nate Long | Sep 29, 2022 | Book, Illustration, Journey Work
Owl Journey 2013-2014 (2022 edition) Owl Journey is a short book of writings and illustrations by Nate Long “Owl” from the years 2013 and 2014, written as journal entries telling of the discoveries of a new spiritual calling. It also chronicals the spiritual journeys...
by Nate Long | Sep 2, 2022 | Illustration, Journey Work
Nature Does Not Know Chaos : A dusty mass of antelope race across the heated grasslands.A wall of smoke and flames race behind after engulfing the mountain side.A moving, pushing, upending wind tears through the smoky and dusty skies. But there is order and pattern...
