Journaling My Dreams: unseen alignment, flight patterns and other paths in the direction of my dreams

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. ~Rainer Maria Rilke What are ways you see things setting themselves into an alignment you didn’t [...]

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May Calendar {download}

From my right brain planner … something new for me: month-at-a-glance {collage} calendar! AND, you may download a digital copy of it {free} as a .pdf file! Click here.  

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Dark corners and layers of structure + light

Beauty is the illumination of your soul. ~John O’Donohue As she abided in the dark corners of her life, she realized despite all the shedding away of layers, experiences of learning and disappointment … all the discoveries and moments of joy and solace and overwhelm — she knew there were so many layers remaining.   [...]

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Glue it Tuesday — darkly and richly

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. ~Saul Bellow

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{Prep for} My Week #8

Both out of necessity [having MS] and now an embraced preference, I live much more simply; and I find that I work and create best in a minimally stimulating space. But merging this goal with the existence of 20+ years of stuff in my home is often an overwhelming challenge. Organization isn’t about perfection; it’s [...]

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52 Weeks of Noting {collage and creative record} 19/52 card — being myself.again

The death of someone we care about causes us to remember … to examine that relationship, the memories shared … the impact their presence had upon the person we were then … the person we are now. Memories tend to blur with time … truth becomes wrapped in sentimentality. There were a couple of situations [...]

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Journaling My Dreams: Destruction is part of creation.

Every act of creation, is first an act of destruction. ~Picasso It was barely visible … but the wind was swaying a piece of netting used to weave a home for a family of Cardinals last year. In April, temperatures dropped into the 20′s and the rain became ice; it collected and melded the bits [...]

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Glue it Tuesday — What do you see?

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask. ~Susan Sontag Observations. Interpretations. Developing ideas … What do you see {feel, believe}?

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52 Weeks of Noting {collage and creative record} 18/52 card — the secret inside places

It comes back to the question, whom are you writing for? Who are the readers you want? Who are the people you want to engage with the things that matter most to you? And for me, it’s people who don’t need it all spelled out because they know it, they understand it. ~Amy Hempel My [...]

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Link Love — Week #4

Pull me round Push me to the limit Maybe I may bend But I know where I’m not going I will not be broken ♫♫ Bonnie Raitt, I Will Not Be Broken A {not-so} funny thing happened … It was my plan to invest some time in organizing links for this final week of Link [...]

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