TERAH COX, author, poet and long-time lyric writer, contributes most of the messages and some of the design work for the Milestones Poetry Cards. Terah's realization that it wasn't just about what she wrote, but why, has enabled her to work in different writing mediums throughout her life. “Writing gives me a way to learn, a way to siphon timeless and universal truths -- using all the love and skill I can muster. For at the heart of it, it's not about writing -- it's about loving the thing you seek enough to listen to it when it comes to you -- and then, to love it so much that you are utterly compelled to share it.” Terah's first professional “job” as a writer was as a staff lyricist signed to Columbia Pictures Music. She went on from there to BMG Songs, Warner-Chappell Music and several European music publishers to write English lyrics for foreign recording artists. During the course of her songwriting career, she has had over 150 songs recorded by numerous artists for CDs, film and television. Her experience as a songwriter led to the publication of her first book, an inspirational how-to guide for songwriting and the music business entitled You Can Write Song Lyrics (Writers Digest Books 2000). While all that was going on, her long-time interest in the world's spiritual paths and traditions led to her second book, Birth Angels (Andrews McMeel Pub. 2004), which introduces the 72 Angels of the Tree of Life and a multi- traditioned Renaissance Kabbalah discovered in Spain among excavated manuscripts in 1975. Her third book, The Story of Love & Truth, released in December 2006 as a handcrafted limited edition, is a fable about togetherness, purpose and the fulfillment of our truest selves, and which Terah says is “the culmination of a lifelong lesson about how truth without love is never a whole truth.” Terah's books, poetry and other creations are featured in the Heaven & Earth Works line of greeting cards and poetry products which are available in a number of galleries and specialty shops across the country. Her education includes a Double B.A. in English and Spanish Literatures at Eastern Kentucky University and Hunter College in NY, a “half-Masters” in Poetry at New York University, plus two years of design study at New York's Fashion Institute. She moonlights as a creativity mentor and speaker/workshop facilitator, and she lives in a small Hudson Highlands village of New York. To check out Terah's books and poetry products, see (www.heavenandearthworks.com).

ART LABRIOLA is composer for the music that accompanies all the Milestones Poetry Cards.  Art's versatile career as a composer, performer and record producer in a wide variety of venues including television, documentary and feature films, the pop/rock, folk and blues music industries, advertising and theater, has made of him an encyclopedia of musical styles and performance.  Engaged in formal classical study on piano from the age of four, his musical expertise grew to include jazz, pop, gospel, rock and roll, blues, bluegrass and country, new age, and other styles of traditional and non-traditional music. While his first instrument is the piano, he is also a performing instrumentalist with the dobro, pedal steel and accordion.  As a composer, Art won a Grammy for his original music score of Hillary Clinton's book "It Takes a Village," as well as an Emmy for "The History of Barbie" and a CLIO award for his compositions in the advertising industry. He has scored numerous documentaries and feature films, including several Barbara Walters specials and his latest film score for Jerabek, which was debuted in 2007 at the Tribeca Film Festival.  He is a graduate of Amherst College, with additional training in composition at the Manhattan School of Music and the Mannes School of Music.  He also studied with noted jazz players Walter Bishop, Jr., Hal Galper, Lou Stein and Andy Laverne and toured Europe and Asia as a performer with the Deep River Boys as well as the Elliot Murphy Band.  He released his successful first solo album of piano compositions in 2005 entitled Winter's Day.  Art's sometimes passionate, sometimes poignant sense of melody, along with an innate feel for the important spaces between the notes, gives his compositions a moving and unforgettable quality that listeners never tire of.  We are thrilled to have him as part of our team!  Art works and performs with his musical wife and daughters in the Hudson Highlands of New York.  Learn more about Art and order his Winter's Day CD at www.artlabriola.com.

GITTEL PRICE is an awarding-winning photographer whose images are featured in our POETRY VISIONS gallery.  Living on the outskirts of Atlanta, GA, she is currently President and Exhibition Chair of Roswell's "Women in Focus," as well as a board member and Publicity Chair of the Roswell Arts District and Roswell Photographic Society, for which she served as President from 2004-2005.  Also a member of the Atlanta Photography Group, her image "Rainbow Over Shadows" (shown in the Poetry Visions Gallery as "Living Colors") won the Photographer's Choice Award in 2007.  In 2005 she was awarded Volunteer of the Year by the State of Georgia's Recreation and Parks Association. Her work has been featured and sold in numerous juried exhibits, in which she has amassed a number of 1st -3rd place awards for single as well as collective works. She is the 2007 winner of Atlanta's prestigious "Distinguished Artist of the Year" CABY Award for excellence in photography and outstanding artistic contribution to her community. Gittel's early study of textile design and painting techniques fostered a keen appreciation of line, texture and color.  Her willingness to be untiringly present with her subjects gives her a "secret" vantage point. She sees the beauty of detail in the most ordinary objects, and her eye has the uncanny ability to capture that fleeting moment of perfection revealed by the subtlest play of light. "Gittel is one of those artists who bridges the past and the future by using the power of the present to illuminate the eternal."  And as her love for the life shimmering in each thing and moment is captured by the eye of her lens, we are called to see not only what she sees - but we are invited to see, and be present, in that timeless way which feels like a gift to our souls.  See more of Gittel's work at www.womeninfocus.us.

GRETA DIETRICH is an award-winning multi-media artist whose Angel illuminations are featured in the ALTAR OF ANGELS Gallery.  A unique and wonderful human spirit, Greta is an artist who bridges the realms of "heaven and earth" with her breathtaking use of color and captured energy. Her renderings of the Angels as "expanded points of light" offer unique and beautiful presentations of radiating, ever-present colors and communications of Love. The spiritual within and between humanity and nature is a common theme in the versatility of her work, and it permeates whatever medium she uses.  A graduate of the State University of New York with a Fine Art degree in metalsmithing, her background includes illustration, writing, graphics and multi-media design, as well as workshop instruction.  She is currently working on a collection of the Angel renderings, a sculpting project and a children's book series.  She resides with her husband and young son on a blueberry farm in Western North Carolina.

DAVINA ANDREE, graphics artist and web designer, illustrator and barefoot crazihorse Renaissance woman, has contributed her talents on every one of these levels to the site! In addition to the “moving collage” designs for all the cards, Davina and her team at Arrowhead Graphics are responsible for design, layout, navigation, implementation and hosting of the site. Together, they have over 300 business and artist websites under their design belts, working in the graphics and programming worlds of Adobe Photoshop & Premiere Pro, ImageReady, Illustrator, InDesign, PageMaker, FrontPage, Macromedia Freehand, HTML, Dreamweaver, Frontpage, Swish, Flash, Cakewalk/ Sonar, Perl, JavaScript, Visual Basic, PHP, ActionScript (Flash), Bash script, SQL, and what else is there?! Davina has stretched her BFA in Fine Arts (University of Arizona) to embrace a wide variety of media and genres, including theater, costumes and fashion, toys and home accessories. Her first love, however, is horses, and as an accomplished equestrian has developed an expertise in all artistic things, websites and designs of an equine nature. She could be called by her circle the “equestrian web designer to the stars,” and numbers among her clientele acclaimed equine artist Kim McElroy and Spirit of Horse Gallery, Bonnie Treece of Horse's Way, Diane Williams Equine Art, Lisa Dee of Vista Caballo, and more. And although we as yet have no horses on this site, I'm sure if Davina has something to do with it, we will! In the meantime, her warmth, willingness and skill give us just the right combination of heartfulness and expertise to help bring you the world of Milestones Poetry Cards. Learn more about Davina and her work at www.arrowheadgraphics.com

ELAINE SPATH BERKUN was an oil and watercolor artist whose landscapes are featured in our “SEASONS OF LIVING” Gallery. Elaine's passion for landscapes came from a childhood love of nature when she would spend countless hours exploring the fields and woods.  When she began painting as a young adult, this love was maintained through her formal training as a studio artist and her 30-year career in art during which her work was exhibited in galleries on Cape Cod, Florida and in the Albany, NY area where she lived.  In describing her work, she said, “I'm interested in mystery and subtlety, the playing of one shape against another….the infinite variety of colors and textures existing in the most ordinary landscapes.” During 20 years of her later adulthood when she was bedridden with a difficult illness, she celebrated her lifelong love of nature by capturing the changing beauties of the seasonal landscapes outside her bedroom window.  Elaine gave many paintings away to friends and family, colleagues and helpers during her life.  Some of the cards featured in her gallery depict paintings that her family was able to locate and photograph, and Milestones Poetry Cards is honored to showcase these select pieces of her work. 

TANYA LEAH, artist and songwriter, has contributed some  humorous line-drawn cards for our holiday gallery.  Tanya is a global- traveling Nashville songwriter whose songs have been recorded by Wynonna Judd, Michael English, Lila McCann, Dee Carstensten, Natalie Grant, Kate Murphy, and more, including # 1 singles with Susan Ashton and Margaret Becker. Tanya lives in Nashville, Tennessee with her songwriter husband, Arnie Roman.