April 2012

I Love Love Love…..facing the breeze coming off the water and feeling it on my face!

My friend is hilarious.  While I was in my usual mad rush to get out of my house, Julia, who had swung by to pick me up, was posting sticky notes EVERYWHERE reminding me to take the day off work, so we could go to the opening Rockies game.  It was hilarious finding these little “reminders” In my Cupboards, on my plates, in a wine class, on my writing notebook,on all my mirrors, to this day, I’m still finding them. … Read More »Opening Day for the Rockies!!!

“Writing practice brings us back to the uniqueness of our own minds and an acceptance of it. We all have wild dreams, fantasies, and ordinary thoughts. Let us to feel the texture of them and not be afraid of them.Writing is still the wildest thing I know.” ― Natalie Goldberg, Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life

“Above all, you must illume in your own soul, its profundities and its shallows and its vanities and its generosities.  Say what your beauty means to you or what your plainess.  And what is your relation to the ever changing world of gloves and shoes and stuffs? Swaying up and down among the faint scents that comes through chemists bottles down arcades of dress material…..” ~Virginia Woolf  {A room of ones own}

Here is Kaela’s painting from Creative Day!  It was magical to watch it slowly turn into this.  All the while, Kaela is casually chatting away! The Lakota knew that man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too. — Luther Standing Bear

“Speak a new language, so the world  will be a new world!” ~Rumi