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Yesterday afternoon I spent hours diving into art materials and experimenting. My new favorite material to work with is tissue paper. I worked off of 8×8 canvases, then used acrylic gel medium as my glue and as a layer over the top. I recently got some sparkly art tissue and tore off three colors and created […]

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The Storm
Now through the white orchard my little dog
romps, breaking the new snow
with wild feet.
Running here running there, excited,
hardly able to stop, he leaps, he spins
until the white snow is written upon
in large, exuberant letters,
a long sentence, expressing
the pleasures of the body in this world.
Oh, I could not have said it better
myself.
-Mary Oliver

Yesterday afternoon it […]

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“This season beckons me to ask, what am I preparing for? What is the way that is being prepared within the wilderness of my life? What does it mean for my own life to become a path, a way of welcome for the Holy One? How do I give myself time to notice the ways […]

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Thanks to everyone who shared their celebration of the moon in this week’s Poetry Party. The winner of the drawing for a copy of Praying With the Elements is Dawn at Wild Yarn.  Dawn — please email me with your snail mail address. Our next party will be December 10th.
Yesterday I got caught up in that wonderful place […]

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