Art urges inner and outer voyages. The inner – what do you see, feel, want to create? What moves you, excites you, opens you up? Why paint that picture, write that song, make that quilt? Art stirs up our insides and allows us to take a deeper, closer look within. This may be exciting, […]
Gratitude has gotten a lot of attention in the last few years. We are asked to keep gratitude journals, remember our blessings, stay positive. And all of this becomes more difficult and feels almost irrelevant in the world we live in today. Anti-Semitism, anti- Muslim, anti-gay, anti-abortion – anti, anti, anti! It can feel like
Someone asked me recently to describe my late husband. “What was he like?” It was a chance to describe all those qualities that I knew and admired from our years together. But in my description of him to someone who didn’t know him, it was interesting to me what traits/qualities I chose to edit
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“If not now, when?” This might sound like a call to arms, and it often is! There might be something right in front of us that we have ignored or misconstrued and if we pay attention we find that now is the time to handle it, and I am the one to do so. However,
“The world is too dangerous for anything but the truth and too small for anything but love.” William Sloan Coffin This quote hangs on a wall in my studio next to a picture of my favorite aunt with her angel wings. It is one of my all time favorite quotes. You many wonder what
“The willingness to show up changes us. It makes us a little braver each time.” Brene Brown I received this quote as an email and it warmed my heart. A few days before I had led a Paint & Sip fundraiser for our local Woman’s Club. Fourteen women registered – some full
Throughout our book you are urged to do a lot of self reflection – on your values, strengths and talents, how you handle change, your community. This is often hard to begin doing. In our extroverted society you may feel that you are being too self-obsessed, narcissistic, uncaring, unavailable, when you take the time to
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Fall is here and I love it- it is my favorite season! Every year it brings back memories of my intact early childhood in the Midwest. Skipping down the sidewalk as red leaves skittered along before me. Jumping into huge piles of leaves our parents had carefully raked together – only to be scattered by
“As I was just saying to a friend the other day, you can’t grow into someone new unless you make some room by clearing out a bit of the old you that doesn’t serve you anymore”. JR Satterly Many times, inspiration for these blogs comes from your comments and responses to other
In our book we have a chapter called Change, Choice, and Challenge where we discuss our resistance to change and ways to move through it. What has occurred to me lately is how tightly we may be clinging to the familiar. In the past few years we have been bombarded by so many changes we
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