What’s a sure fire way to get out of a creativity rut? Put your play pants on. Begin a project. In my case, a photography project — it has worked wonders for recharging my creativity. Writers, crafters, quilters, artists of… Read more
A Story, General
offer it a sip of tea
“A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.” –Beth Ditto My dear mom would have agreed with that sentiment. It ran in her veins, like our life blood, or the life-giving rivers that feed the globe’s oceans…. Read more
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breathe
Being a Person “Be a person here. Stand by the river, invokethe owls. Invoke winter, then spring.Let any season that wants to come here make its owncall. After that sound goes away, wait. A slow bubble rises through the earthand… Read more
A Little Beauty
what are life weeds?
“What are life weeds? All of the unwanted things that creep into our lives and before we know it they have choked the life out of the things that actually do matter.” — Heather Longhurst With that thought, fill your… Read more
Print Your Photos
printed photographs are gifts
“And into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul.” said/wrote John Muir. The wind in the cedars and firs whispers and hums, yet in the maples and alders it rustles and prattles, making fine forest… Read more
General
on this autumn day
“Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love – The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hecticor the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground,that one’s very footsteps… Read more
General
when women were birds
“Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated.”–Terry Tempest Williams… Read more
