The Bracelet Slinger Blog

  • Art, Change, Freedom and Life

    by Hei Jung
    Art is a world without rules and confinements - a place to explore your imagination and everything that falls out of it. Taking risks in art is like a training ground for taking risks in life. Breaking free of routine and having something new and exciting…

  • Simplicity

    by Hei Jung
    The simplest design requires the most discipline. As the artist, resisting the temptation to stray from the monotony, focusing on the same predictable bead, over and over and over, can take just as much mental energy…

  • My Muse

    by Hei Jung
    These last few days of resuscitating the shop…from getting the fingers working, the old neural pathways firing, catching up with so many of you - some who have been here since the early days, some who have witnessed…

  • Hello, all you lovers and dreamers…

    by Linn Daugherty
    Thanks for such a warm welcome back on Instagram. It feels so good to see you all and peek at your posts and catch up on what you all have been doing, and all that I’ve been missing. As for me, I’ve spent most of fall and winter down in the Joshua Tree area learning ways of the desert and living a monkish lifestyle...

  • Universal Language

    by Hei Jung
    Like micro expressions at the poker table, the earth has tells too, that are more reliable and honest than a language based on words. There’s a universal language the planet speaks to every life connected to it - it’s a language of patterns, behaviors, and stimulation of the senses.

  • Nature’s Way

    by Hei Jung
    Nature’s way is all about harmony and working together…and it starts with not taking more than we need.

  • The Animal Inside Us

    by Hei Jung
    If we could accept the animal part of ourselves, embrace it, maybe we would be able to accept and embrace the environment we were built for for us to thrive in.  Maybe then we would be able to protect it, nurture it, empower it, and see in doing so, we would be simultaneously protecting, nurturing, and empowering ourselves. 

  • Evolutionary Path

    by Hei Jung
    Perhaps the human species is supposed to evolve into a robot.  It certainly would have its perks - live forever, produce more, have more, be “more”.  But is more better than less?  Is that a conscious belief you’ve chosen for yourself?  Or one your family, school, work, town, community, country, generation, society has decided for you?

  • Earth, Body, Mind, Soul

    by Hei Jung

    Our environment has a direct impact on our body, mind, and soul; therefore, it is a direct reflection of our society, what’s missing, and the direction we are headed when it is commonly left out when spoken of the “whole person”.  The whole self is earth, body, mind, and soul, and without a connection to the earth, we lose connection with the origin of ourselves. 

  • Grounding

    by Hei Jung
    No matter what our situation is or where we came from, the earth is home to all of us, connecting us, with billions of years of wisdom to share, help us grow, and remind us who we are.

  • Lessons from the Sky

    by Hei Jung
    Often times, we tend to stuff our emotions down, drown them in alcohol, work, exercise, shopping, eating, relationships…anything to distract ourselves from the upsetting feeling in our go, go, go lives.  Some of us have stuffed such old pain down that we are completely unaware of the pint up storm building in us, sometimes unleashing it at irrational times or perhaps still waiting to cause a flash flood on our life.

  • Spirit Travel

    by Hei Jung
    Travel by putting yourself in someone else’s shoes, or stems, or exoskeleton…imagine what it would be like to see in heat, sonar, or electricity.  To be able to taste the world with your feet.  All of a sudden the place that you are is 500 places…infinite places to be explored, seen, studied, and understood.