Healing

Little House in the Big Woods

Laura Ingalls Wilder She thought to herself, “This is now.”  She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now.  They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now.   Find Laura Ingalls Wilder on Goodreads

With a Heart of Gold

Willie Cole With a Heart of Gold is one of Willie Cole’s 3 dimensional art installations using recycled women’s shoes. The multiplication of a single object has become the driving aesthetic of my sculptural work.  I think of myself as creating the same way nature does: through cell replication and multiplication.  I tell myself that …

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Why I’m Here

Writer, singer and songwriter, Jessie Veeder, shares why her family ranch will always be home Jessie Veeder We were out late last night working cattle. And by late, I mean after dark. And by after dark I mean, a sliver of a moon, a thousand stars, 50 head of black cattle, five people and one flashlight. …

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I Won’t Back Down

Tom Petty Well I won’t back down No, I won’t back down You could stand me up at the gates of hell And I won’t back down I’m gonna stand my ground Won’t be turned around And I’ll keep this world from draggin’ me down Gonna stand my ground And I won’t back down   …

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Landscape Survey

John Brehm And what about this boulder, knocked off the moutaintop and tumbled down a thousand years ago to lodge against the streambank, does it waste itself with worry about how things are going to turn out? Does the current slicing around it stop itself mid- stream because it can’t get past all it’s left …

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The Art of Racing in the Rain

Garth Stein There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose. The Art of Racing in the Rain is available through Goodreads.

Hard Work Ahead

Tim Christensen I make pots about the times in which we live, and the challenges of living in a time in which we are divorced from the natural world around us. I make my work to be appreciated by those who know a lot or a little about porcelain or art, and make it with …

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Apples, Apples, Who Has the Apples?

A story about life’s mishaps, the help of strangers, and 450 apples Prairie Wisdom Johnny Appleseed’s birthday was on September 26th so we had little time to make posters, communicate with teachers, write speeches for the daily announcements, organize a master of ceremonies for the event and figure out how we were going to distribute 450 …

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Stubborn Love

The Lumineers It’s better to feel pain, than nothing at all The opposite of love’s indifference… So keep your head up, keep your love Keep your head up, my love Keep your head up, my love Keep your head up, keep your love   More from The Lumineers

Healing Quote of the Day

Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. –Mother Theresa