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January 6th, 2013 Yesterday I was surfing YouTube for a new painting project. I happened upon one that involved painting roses in oil with a palette knife by Ahuva Shweiki. Since the palette knife on my ArtRage app was still beyond my understanding, I decided that was a good place to start.
You know those "duh" moments? . . . → Read More: Under The Knife
January 5th, 2013 …Lord God almighty….. How many of you Catholics out there remember that little song from mass on Sundays? It still rings in my head after all these years. While still feeling allegiance to the catholic faith, I have bounced from holy building to holy building trying to find a peaceful home now for many years. . . . → Read More: Holy Holy Holy….
January 4th, 2013 This blog challenge is just the thing for January, which is usually a long, cold, uneventful month. I've met so many wonderful, creative souls who have gone out of their way to encourage me. I sit at night until the wee hours of the morning reading all the wonderful blogs on the Ultimate Challenge Facebook . . . → Read More: Be Yourself…and..
January 2nd, 2013 Today seems to be the day everyone is digging into their inbox with gusto, myself included. After cleaning out all the junk, the gems quickly rose to the top. Paul Taubman, my gratitude guru, had the best post regarding resolutions that I have seen anywhere in the last 48 hours.
Prior to reading his . . . → Read More: Be Do Have
January 1st, 2013 Happy New Year to all my readers. In these first minutes of 2013, let us contemplate peace, love, and joy. Where is that better to be found than in your God? I have a friend I met in yoga class that is the vocalist for the Christian band Skywatch – a wonderful local band here . . . → Read More: Hallowed
December 31st, 2012 Yesterday a friend of mine posted on Facebook “today was one of those days when you take a shower just to put your pajamas back on…” I loved that post. There’s nothing better on a holiday or Sunday to take a shower and put on clean jammies and snuggle in for the day.
If, . . . → Read More: Clean Jammies
December 28th, 2012 Melody Beattie knows more about life and what makes us do the things we do than any other writer on such things that I have ever read. When you read her work, you just nod your head and keep repeating things like, “I know! I know!” and “That’s me! That’s me!” She has done an . . . → Read More: Where I Am
December 25th, 2012 Today was an odd kind of Christmas day. I had to drive my daughter back to Boston for work tomorrow, after which I proceeded to the cape, followed by my husband, where we will spend the rest of the holiday week. After I dropped her off and headed south on 95 towards Cape Cod, my . . . → Read More: Christmas Trip
December 23rd, 2012 This morning I found the best solution for describing and dealing with the chatter we let go on in our minds, that eventually takes over how we act, which in turn determines how we feel. In Bikram yoga we often talk about shutting down the chatter in our mind that tries to incite panic and . . . → Read More: Quiet The Chatter
December 20th, 2012 Tuesday I had a really bad Bikram class. My arms were just not performing and I was weak and fatigued. I knew it was going to be a tough because I did fit club on Monday morning, Bikram Monday night, and was back in the studio in less than 15 hours. I tried to be . . . → Read More: Blame: Put It On The Mat
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