After being diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor and told she had less than a year to live (in 1986), artist Sandi Gold painted and then erased a 63 foot mural titled "The Temple of the Soul." Why spend three months creating art and then erase it? "As an artist I needed to express what I learned after having stared death smack in the face. Living with what felt like a "time-bomb" in my head, I learned what my priorities are and the benefits to be gained when I honored my Inner Guide. Dying is not the scary part; wasting our life is. Allowing ourselves to be distracted, unconscious and ignoring our true selves is really more frightening than dying. In other words it is not the length of time we live that is important but what we do while we are living. Our lives are really shaped bythe depth of our appreciation and