writing
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Happy 14th Anniversary WIND.
It is hard to believe that WIND is 14 years old – it began as a collaborative effort between Dial Help – and myself. The idea was to have a group of women that would explore creative expressions – Women… Continue reading
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The Colors of My Life
Fourteen years ago I was the keynote speaker at the Dial Help Annual Fundraiser. Well, my storyline quilts were also part of the speech. It is hard to believe that 14 years have passed and that there still is so… Continue reading
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Who loved with Courage
Mother’s Day has me looking upward to my mother, looking at myself, and then – looking at the mothers of my grandchildren. I sit between my mother and my grandchildren’s mothers. I am part of my mother and the seeds… Continue reading
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Where the Heart Lives
Tonight I am sitting with gratitude and a thankful heart to the home we have been lucky enough to live in for the past 30 years. This home welcomed us with our 4 children and a dog. We loved, lived… Continue reading
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A Journal to take Home
Last week when I sat by the Detective and asked him how things were going….he said, "I have two adolescent boys (who are talking to him about their sexual abuse) and I don't have nothing to give them….I am not sure… Continue reading
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The enemy of Lies.
Who I was the first 46 years is totally different than who I am now. I went from being totally submissive, compliant and eager to please, while a bit of an outspoken person, I spoke for what I then believed…as… Continue reading
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With me.
In Chapter 8, Recovering a Sense of Strength (in The Artist’s Way, by Julia Cameron), she writes. “One of the most difficult tasks an artist must face is the primal one; Artistic Survival. All artist must learn the art… Continue reading
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Shield of Pretending.
If you look at the way positive or negative feedbacks travel, they are exactly the same, leaving a person and landing within you, the only difference is the content or is the only difference from where it comes? Or is… Continue reading
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Same Piece.
Last night I viewed lots of different Art, and it seemed each Artist had a message or feeling of energy that came through the piece. The art piece said more about the artist than the art. It is… Continue reading
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Reconstruction on the Outside.
I was surprised at how at ease I felt writing and even how peaceful I was inside, how comfortable I wrote my thoughts as they drifted by, as I looked upon this day, as I just seemed to write effortlessly.… Continue reading