Daffodil delight

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(Week 112)

Word for March:  ORDER

Thank goodness we’re not in charge of everything!

CLICK HERE to download this month’s bookmark (above).
Best printed on card stock. Includes a few extras to share.
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STUDIO CURIOSITY

Are you more interested in…
1. How to find more time to create, or
2. 50+ ways [...]

(Week 111)

Word for February:  WARM

I just spent the last 3 days in a workshop with Jesse Reno, playing with paint. Talk about warm!

When you’re doing something that’s “you”, your TRU self sings. It’s not an audible sound (usually), but it’s a song you feel in your body. You know, that YIPPEEEE! tune. It makes you [...]

(Week 110)

Word for February: WARM

To all those who have shared their warm smiles so generously,

Thank you.

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STUDIO DELIVERY

A sampling of the plaquettes I just sent to Belle’s Nest, a lovely, local shop of handmades here in Sierra Madre. Created by two artist sisters, Elena and [...]

Our Satsuma Orange Tree

(Week 109)

Word for February:  WARM

“Warm” is one of those words you feel in your body. Actually, we “feel” every word in our body, but most of the time we don’t notice. Warm is one of those obvious ones.

When I was little and freezing in New Jersey, I used to imagine being [...]

(Week 108)

Word for February:  WARM

(Not just for campers.)

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Best printed on card stock. Includes some extras to share.
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STUDIO DELIVERIES

Several people did not get last week’s post. If you don’t get a Sunday post, be suspicious. This week makes [...]

(Week 107)

Word for January:  SUPPORT  (last week)

The hardest part about teaching a child to ride a bike is knowing how much to support and how much to let go.

How much to hold on.

How much to let go.

There is no manual. It’s a feeling.

And sometimes they fall.

This is how we too learn balance.
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(Week 106)

Word for January:  SUPPORT

We are all designed to create. We all have a left and a right hemisphere. The right, with its infinite imagination and wisdom, was created to lead. And the left does its best work as support, physically carrying out the right’s ideas. It holds the to-do list.

This morning [...]

(Week 105)

REFLECTION, 2012

Word for January: SUPPORT

Is it time to clean out your friends closet?

Friendships are like clothes. They have a certain fit. Some fit a season. Others a lifetime. It’s because of our evolution, our ever becoming process. Preferences change. Over time, some clothes no longer feel right.

We transform for good reason. We’ve [...]

CLICK image to watch.

(Week 104)

Word for January:  SUPPORT

With this new year before us, all stretched out and pretty, we stand in front of a white canvas free to create. An invitation to play. This moment does not know what came before. It doesn’t even care. We can make anything happen. What [...]