Healing

The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen.  And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky. –Find the Poisonwood Bible on Goodreads

Singing

Cynthia Holmes My paintings reflect my interest in nature and stories by connecting reality with the imagination.  The natural world of plants, landscape, animals, weather, people, mountains and rivers are intertwined with the stories of everyday to form a fanciful colorful painting that celebrates the journey of life.  –Cynthia Holmes   View more art by …

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Sometimes We Get it Right

Tara Egan   As parents, we wear our guilt like a favorite pair of shoes; constantly and mindlessly. In contrast, we wear our pride like a pair of too-tight gloves; intermittently and uncomfortably. As I’ve navigated my way through my divorce, my guilt and sense of failure has taken on a life of its own. …

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Moving

Travis I was afar, I’m following the star Home isn’t where you are And everything is falling into place And then we move again So take the curve and move along Until we’re gone, we’re moving on   More by Travis

Catch What You Can

Jean Garrigue The thing to do is try for that sweet skin One gets by staying deep inside a thing. The image that I have is that of fruit— The stone within the plum or some such pith As keeps the slender sphere both firm and sound. Stay with me, mountain flowers I saw And …

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Bird by Bird

Anne Lamott Some Instructions on Writing and Life Perfectionism means that you try desperately not to leave so much mess to clean up.  But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.  Clutter is wonderfully fertile ground – you can still discover new treasures under all those piles, clean things up, edit things …

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Grandfather Tree of Knowledge

Shonto Begay We say “nizhonigoo bil iina”, the beauty that you live with, the beauty that you live by, the beauty upon which you base your life.  For me, beauty is anything that stirs the soul, the emotion, whether it be grief, anger, joy, or melancholia.  –Shonto Begay Shonto Begay is a Navajo artist, children’s …

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Nobody Just Cleans Toilets

Adrian Fogelin Most of us have better selves disguised as cleaning ladies. Fresh out of art school I got a job as the illustrator for The Baltimore Zoo. Orgie Kimball worked there too, and had for many years.  When I met her she was a stooped and tired woman who wore a powder blue smock …

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Who Says You Can’t Go Home

Bon Jovi I went as far as I could, I tried to find a new face There isn’t one of these lines that I would erase I lived a million miles of memories on that road With every step I take I know that I’m not alone   More music by Bon Jovi

Healing Quote of the Day

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.  –Leo Tolstoy