Healing
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. – Atticus Finch Find To Kill a Mockingbird …
Totem Walk at Sitka
Emily Carr Emily Carr (1871 – 1945) was born in Victoria, British Columbia to a well off British family. Throughout her life, she would continually push the boundaries of artistic, cultural, societal and gender based expectations. Carr was orphaned while still a teen, and left for San Francisco to study art. A decade later, she …
Put Something In
Shel Silverstein Draw a crazy picture, Write a nutty poem, Sing a mumble-grumble song, Whistle through your comb. Do a loony-goony dance ‘Cross the kitchen floor, Put something silly in the world That ain’t been there before. More about Shel Silverstein
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Michael Dorris A fierce saga of three generations of Indian women, beset by hardships and torn by angry secrets, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of kinship. Starting in the present day and moving backward, the novel is told in the voices of the three women: fifteen-year-old part-black Rayona; her American Indian mother, Christine, consumed …
Her Heart Touched by Hummingbirds
Patricia Wyatt I have been a printmaker, a textile designer and a painter. I have come to understand that making art is a fluid process that is constantly being refined. The many different materials I use create both physical and emotional depth. My paintings offer each of us a quiet moment to consider our paths, to …
Ku’u Home O Kahalu’u
Olomana Change is a strange thing it cannot be denied It can help you find yourself or make you lose your pride Move with it slowly as on the road we go Please do not hold on to me we all must go alone I remember days when we were smiling When we laughed and …
Healing Quote of the Day
When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it’s a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect. – Arthur Schopenhauer