This week was spring break for me. It should have been a week where creating came easy because I had very few things that I had to do. What I have learned about myself, however, is that I need structure. I do much better at getting all the things done when my days are packed and I know if I don’t do “it”, whatever “it” is, in the allotted time slot in my planner, “it” won’t get done. When I…
I find participating in The 100 Day Project to be good for me in many ways; some of them are expected and others are surprising. This project forces me to commit to something and actually get it done. It causes me to focus on one thing and not jump from project to project, and it it invites me to create something every day. Sometimes I can embrace each of those things for the good they bring and sometimes, like this…
Here we are, 14% of the way through this year’s !00 Day Project. So far, I am really enjoying my project this year. I actually look forward to the time each day when I am able to sit down, slow down, and turn meditation into collage and collage into meditation. Even with past projects that I have loved the finished product, I can say that there were many days that I didn’t look forward to the daily doing. Honestly,…
It is that time of year again, time for the 2026 100 Day Project! Actually it began on February 22, so today is day seven. If you are unfamiliar with The 100 Day Project, in short, it originated as a Yale University design assignment by Professor Michael Bierut in 2006 and has evolved into a global creative movement through the efforts of Elle Luna and Lindsay Jean Thompson. It’s goal is for individuals to pick a creative endeavor and do that…
A few glimpses from our rainy day of fun. Shopping at the Christmas Place. A wet walk around The Island, a touristy shopping and eating area. Because of the weather, Internet was down throughout The Island, so we couldn’t do much of anything, so no photos. Down time at the hotel The Hatfield and McCoys Feud Dinner. Super cheesy but good food and entertaining. Roasted marshmallows at the hotel. I don’t care for marshmallows so Jim was a…
Day two of our 60-65 Adventure began wbreakfast with Santa. Do you ever get too old for Santa? As we stood with him, the lyrics from Amy Grant’s song, “Grown-Up Christmas List” flooded my head. Being that there are 351 days until Christmas, Santa didn’t ask what I wanted for Christmas. If he had, I would have sung this chorus; No more lives torn apart That wars would never start And time would heal all hearts And love would never…
Each year I choose a word of the year, a single word on which to focus throughout the year with the hope that that word will help me grow. This year’s word is TODAY. I chose the word today partially because I am a life-long procrastinator, at least from the outside looking in. For example, when it came to writing papers while I was in school, I usually did the physical writing at the eleventh hour, but all of the…
Let’s talk about reading. Not the reading of specific books. At least not right now. But how reading fits into our lives. I have said previously that I don’t make New Year’s resolutions. That is true; but, I do set a few goals for myself with the arrival of each new year. For 2025, I set an intention to read one hundred books. Last January, this seemed like an easily attainable goal; two books a week with some built in…
Happy New Year! Though today is the first day of the new calendar year, it is not a significant new beginning in my mind. My emotional new year starts with my birthday, which was four days ago. So, last night, New Year’s Eve, was more or less a non-event. I spent the night knitting and drawing and avoiding the crazies who were out and about in the world…until my daughter called. She had a very distraught four-year-old. They suffered a…
I am part of a team that writes daily devotions for Cathedral of Hope (Dallas) United Church of Christ. I don’t usually share that writing here because it can be read on the church’s website or on Facebook. I am, however, making an exception today because this particular devotion is not really theological or religious , though it does talk of God. ________________________ Scripture “Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them…