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Andy (the writer played by the likable Anne Hathaway), who at the end of the first movie left the fashion magazine to write real news, returns to the magazine, this time to write features. She and Miranda Priestly (played by the incomparable Meryl Streep) face down several crises together.
After reading the rather extensive explanations in this book, my husband made the best bread I’ve ever eaten.
I am delighted to report that since I have just gotten my fifth painting juried into the elite IAPS Pastel World Show, I will now receive “Master Pastellist” status.
I hope you find something among all this artwork, photography, memes, links, and quotes that spurs you on, informs, inspires, supports, educates, encourages or motivates you.
Starting the long drive home, I do not turn on the radio to hear news of the broken world…
I am furthering my ongoing goal of appreciating such a continuous, overflowing abundance of random good.
This painting is of early spring in Huntington, in a different color way that makes it look like out of a fairy tale.
By means of all created things, without exception, the divine assails us, penetrates us and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, whereas in fact we live steeped in its burning layers.
I am so grateful to live so close to this wonderful place and to have gotten to know it intimately over many years.
This is satisfyingly delicious, and since I got the recipe from the Blue Zone Kitchen Cookbook shown below from folks who live to over 100, I can say it’s healthy too.
I was interviewed by St. Louis’ Gateway to Dreams magazine Be the Change edition about a spiritual approach to mental health and healing.
After spending 178 days aboard the International Space Station, astronaut Ron Garan returned to Earth carrying something far heavier than space equipment or mission data.
The title of this conceptual painting is a quote from a snippet I like from the King James version of the Bible in I Peter 5:10. Don’t we all want that?
My parents gave us this tree as a housewarming present 35 years ago. It is going strong and is such a lovely addition to our life!
I’ve started in a new journal, having filled several before, and I’m really liking this new green one, since the paper is thicker and whiter.
This is delicious, and quick and easy to do with pantry ingredients. This makes two servings but can be multiplied for more.
Dotted buds, tight fisted but yielding; scattered pecks of blossoms on trees; efflorescent dabs of white or blush pink done with a vigorous, percussive hand