Layering Scribbles (Sketchbook Ideas #11)
It is highly useful to practice scribbling and to know the idiosyncrasies of layering scribbles in different media.
Mindfulness
My New Year’s Resolution for 2024: Use What You Have
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
Book Challenge 2024 (A Totally New Approach)
I’ve heard from many of you and your feedback was helpful in radically changing our Reading Challenge this year.
Hike Photos from Huntington State Park (December 2023)
I’m still walking in the same place, trying to see it freshly every time.
Global Warming 2023 (New Abstract Painting in Pastel)
This year, more concern is felt because climate change has been resulting in devastating fires and seasons of pervasively poor air quality; it is starting to effect us where we live
Be Ruthless About What You Ignore (James Clear Quote)
You can only deeply commit to a few things. One or two? Maybe three?
The Soul Dwells Where Beauty Lives (John O’Donohue Quote)
All holiness is about learning to hear the voice of your own soul.
Small Kindnesses (Poem by Danusha Lameris)
I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk down a crowded aisle…
Live Under Divine Authority (Deep Think #23)
When you can answer these questions like Jesus could, you can do as he did, living under divine authority, and quickly healing in a direct few words whatever is unlike God.
Talk this Morning on Spiritual Self-Care (with Handout)
I’m talking this morning with the Ridgefield Congregational Church Adult Sunday School on the topic of Spiritual Self-Care.
When Doing Something Hard (James Clear Quote)
Many people make a subtle mistake, which is they emphasize how difficult it is to do something.
A World of Spiritual Energy (Quote by Shinzen Young)
This is what happens when purity and insight are brought to bear…
A Rollercoaster of Abundance and Joy (New Poem by Polly Castor)
This summer has gone so fast filled to the brim with so much good.
Quotidian Illumination (Quote by Holly Bridges Elliot)
I remember this illumination happening to me one noontime as I stood in the kitchen…