Healing

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll “I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” Find Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland at Goodreads

The View

Liese Chavez I hope that people look at the art and feel like we’ve shared something.  So that inspires me – the fact that I can connect with people through the artwork is important. – Liese Chavez Explore more art by Liese Chavez on her website and facebook page.

The Stairs

Ashley Larkin These oak stairs lead down to the snarls of dress-up clothes, all toulle and apron strings on the floor, to the computer where I write and where we try to make sense of money, and to the couch where we play board games and watch movies on the boxy TV. The stairs carry …

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Perfect Day

Lou Reed It’s such a perfect day, I’m glad I spent it with you Such a perfect day Visit the website for Lou Reed Youtube Post by TaCleoh

Real Work

Shawna Lemay And still, years into it, one questions what is one’s ‘real work’ and how to be faithful to the work, how to show greater patience. How to be patient with one’s life, with the lives of others. And maybe, also, the further we delve into our ‘real work’ the more we are aware …

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Sliding on the Snow Stone

Andy Szpuk Sometimes things happen that test our faith. But how can we truly see what is beautiful if we do not know what is ugly, or if we do not experience hardship? — From Sliding on the Snow Stone It is astonishing that anyone lived this story. It is even more astonishing that anyone …

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Embrace

Beverly McIver In a stirring series of paintings, Beverly McIver explores the complexities of African American female identity.  But just as striking, are her scenes of love, sacrifice and loss, which depict the universal story of family bonds .  The documentary Raising Renee follows Beverly’s struggle to care for her mentally handicapped sister after the death …

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Art and Love and Healing

Julia Fehrenbacher   Here’s the truth.  When I say “no” to what feeds and fills me, when I decide something else matters more than doing what lights me up- I become empty.  And when I’m empty, I miss the beauty of Here.      This morning before I exercised or cleared the breakfast dishes off …

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Honest Songs

Noah Gundersen I am grateful for the winter for the winter comes to show that our trouble is never over and our work is never done But with the turning of the season we will always see the sun And the sound it makes is an honest song Our hearts sing an honest song   …

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Healing Quote of the Day

  To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. –Nelson Mandela