Fostering a new renaissance through creativity, authenticity, spirituality, and art
The term “horse whisperer,” but it wasn’t always a thing. Up until this time men generally beat horses into submission, hobbling them and bucking them until they “broke” them. During the First World War, when women began to do this job, things changed, and a more empathetic approach proved much more successful.
After reading the rather extensive explanations in this book, my husband made the best bread I’ve ever eaten.
This book is desolate and rather devastating. This is not so much a recommendation as a review; it is me needing to talk about it, not you needing to read it.
This is written by a former Religion 101 professor about how teaching college kids about the diversity of world religions really help her admire parts of each of them.
This is a novel about second-generation Tunisian immigrants living in Sweden, and their challenges of cultural duality, where they do not fit in, either in their country of ethnic origin nor in their resident birth country.
The Spellshop is a great diversion, and it was perfect as a “palette cleanser” between other books that promise greater edification. You might find that you enjoy the reprieve too.
It is about kindness, about an artist and art appreciation, about deeply listening to others about what is on their heart, encouraging others to see their value, appreciating nature, music, walking, and community, all with Christian overtones.
Making the art materials yourself is an art in itself. By being creative about the elements you use, you can achieve the unique results you are after.
This book depicts the average struggles families go through to give everyone what they need. This is particularly true for women and mothers…
I enjoyed this book about the friendship that grows between four smart, strong women, who are assigned to lived together in their first year of Oxford in 1920.
This a work of historical fiction about a woman who is the director of a “group home for negro boys” in Alabama during the Vietnam years.
If you actually put any of this into practice, this information can be incredible. I hope you leverage it to be who you want to be.
Compare this series to a cross between Pride and Prejudice and Anne of Green Gables; it is at once lighthearted and substancial.
It is a story about an unexpected baby arriving at Christmas time, and what a miracle that can be. It centers around the town doctor as the main character, as well as his unmarried daughter.
I’ve printed this list off and put it in my journal. I hope you’ll join in with us and do the same.
This was a very richly endowed book exchange holiday for us. In this post you can see the books we got and gave– mostly non-fiction, and only one novel!
I read 68 books this year, ten of which were art and cookbooks, 13 were other non-fiction, and the rest were novels. I listened 22 on audio. I gave 19 books five stars this year.