“Buttoned Up” is such a laden phrase…suggesting: rigid neat silent controlled repressed complete contained conservative final taciturn While there are certainly some aspects of being buttoned up that are useful or appropriate in particular circumstances, there are also benefits to being: unbuttoned juicy whimsical creatively chaotic prodigal prophetic flexible in process. (Un)Buttoned offers both. …
It has been a joy spending my days developing a new creative rhythm and then sharing each day’s image and reflection with the Art Journey Support Group each night. I’ve learned a few things already: I really really really need to prune my stash of fabrics. The hardest part of the process is attaching the …
Before I start I want to wish a Happy Birthday to my beloved son-in-law who begins a new year today. First: If you have not read last Wednesday’s blog, please click through here and read it [Harvesting (sometimes elusive) Courage] I don’t want anyone wondering what happened! Second: If you think you have signed up …
Things are changing. Please open this and read it all the way through. I love the ocean; I love watching the ocean when a storm has passed somewhere out at sea and the waves are coming in to shore with more than their normal height and velocity. Surf is amazing and beautiful and lifts my …
Roles — and how we use them, misuse them, abuse them, take them up, take them on, and lay them aside (or don’t) — have been on my mind and heart recently. My husband and I have moved on from the clothing part of ‘tidying up’ to sorting books. We are not yet finished with …
Some people (the Dalai Lama comes to mind) seem to go through this temporal existence instantly aware of each lesson that comes to them. Others of us stumble around for decades wondering why we keep bumping into the same sharp objects in the dark until we finally awaken to the possibility that it might be …
First: Special birthday greetings to my sister who will celebrate the start of another year tomorrow… and, therefore, an acknowledgment to my mother who was in labor right around now. I thought I would take this weekend to tell you about the start of our own labor of tidying up (See: Tidying Up and To …
In trending news, the Clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky, has decided to (continue to) defy the Supreme Court in order to uphold “God’s definition of marriage…” I am assuming that she is not referring to God’s definition of marriage in both the First and the Second Testaments that allows men to have more than one …
My guess is that the vast majority of us (if not absolutely every last one of us) would like to be free-thinkers, unswayed by specious reasoning, unhooked by emotional appeals, stalwart in the face of manipulation, not given to ‘ant mind.’ My second guess is that the vast majority of us (if not absolutely every …
Someone recently remarked – with what sounded like a good deal of irritation – that the little slips of paper in fortune cookies are no longer fortunes, they are aphorisms. Personally, I hadn’t noticed because I am still carrying the fortune (not aphorism) I received five years ago that promises, ‘You will receive some prestigious …