Fostering a new renaissance through creativity, authenticity, spirituality, and art
Cultivating spiritual sense is thrilling, and I wish more people would experience this exciting connection, instead explaining it away materially, or hiding it behind the term of intuition.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
Urban environment contrasted with the natural one… organic shapes and texture contrasted with geometric, built, and man made angles.
Approach scribbling with mindful noticing and inquisitiveness, and let one thing lead to the next by asking questions.
It is highly useful to practice scribbling and to know the idiosyncrasies of layering scribbles in different media.
To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury…
If you want an intelligent, passionate romp, with both a cause and a woman’s virtue in the balance, read this one.
I got this recipe from Heidi Swanson, and have only altered it slightly. I’m grateful to this soup’s perfect soul-warming goodness in my cooking repertoire. Everybody loved it. You can use whatever mushrooms you want here, but this was fabulous with the fancy mushrooms (shown below) found at Costco. I’ll also make this the next … Read more
Christmas eve at church We had a lovely holiday with both our daughter’s home, as well as our older daughter’s boyfriend. In the photos in this post you can see what we ate and what we played. Among us we got a few new games we enjoyed, which might be great gift ideas for you … Read more
A Firm Foundation (pastel) by Polly Castor I have so much! And I find having a yearly theme a helpful focus, not as a hard, self flagellation reformation tool, but as a gentle, purposeful guide toward intended progress, with plenty of forgiveness and compassion thrown in. Besides, I know it is especially powerful to write … Read more
I’ve heard from many of you and your feedback was helpful in radically changing our Reading Challenge this year.
