Is this amazing or what? Thank you Amanda Eldridge for building my new website. This chic is one of the most amazingly talented people I know! Go give her a visit at ameatelier.com
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Recently a friend asked me to look up this documentary, Rivers and Tides, about Andy Goldsworthy. This artist creates extraordinary works of art out of scrapes and branches in nature. Over and over he creates a spectacle, and it all goes back to his relationship to the earth. This documentary is not only profound, but a must see for any and every artist. Even if you aren’t a self-proclaimed artist, it really digs deep into what you are creating in your life. Your work may be the way you mother, the career path you’ve carved, or something you are deeply passionate about.
Feb
12
2009
Brighten Up a Long Winter’s Day (or season!)
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Brighten Up a Long Winter’s Day (or season!)
Bonjour!
I was inspired, this morning, by something Kristin mentioned to me via email. For those of you suffering from the winter blues or are just plain fed up with the lack of sunlight, I want to encourage you. It is unfortunate that the combination of a long winter, too many hours of darkness and a little bit too much comfort food haunts many of us this time of year. Below is a list of ideas I came up with; I hope you find something that peeks your interest, soothes your soul and offers you a “lift”!
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Ok, so smack me for falling off the wagon of blogging. I’ve been busy learning and observing some of the biggest lessons the past two months.
Our world has been chalk full of serious lessons in loss. Families losing their homes, millions of us losing our jobs, 100% of us losing more than half of our stock market investments, the country suffering the loss of 8 years of a President who has depleted us, and all of the interconnected losses that are attached to us in hundreds of ways by those who have lost something in one way or another. How many people in your life have been effected by your losses? Imagine that on a grand scale.
Thank you all for leaving so many meaningful and bright comments on the last post. It’s not a mistake that I decide to pick up writing in the blog on one of the most historical days in our history. Today has had a way of bringing me into the present state, aware of everything, fresh with memories that have more of a lesson than I realized.
I was driving this afternoon, at a stop light, and noticed the clouds. Beautiful. They were rounded pebbles and shooting pearls floating into one another. I remembered when I was a little girl, I would lay in the grass at our old house and look up in the sky. I was so present. There I was, little me, noticing the shapes, designs, colors. Present and aware of what the grass felt like under me, what the smells were in the air and the approximate time it must be in the day for the sun to be where it was. I remember planes flying overhead, way high in the sky and I would wonder where the people were all going. I wondered where I would go one day. And here I am now, 20 years later, someone hardly recognizable to that little girl. A woman with more than she ever dreamed of. A woman who is more than she ever dreamed of becoming. And even now, what I really long for, is that present moment, where I can look up in the sky, and dream about what this moment, and only this moment might have for me. I realize that this moment is all I really have. Nothing more, and when I take the time to lock this thought in, I realize that this is the way to becoming even more than I could ever imagine in the next twenty years of my life.
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