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Bluebell Season "Let choice whisper in your ear a

Bluebell Season

"Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life." MAYA ANGELOU

During bluebell season, walking in the woods luxuriating in stillness, verdant swards of green and blue soothe eye and soul.

May you filter out the noise of the world and let in life.

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Journey on! When that little voice, the inner cri

Journey on!

When that little voice, the inner critic, whispers, or screams, "you've wasted your life, your time, your talent;" remind her she's not in the driver's seat. You are!

It's the journey, not the destination that's the point.

May you frolic through the journey of life like a spring lamb.

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Making me happy. First this year: laundry out to

Making me happy.

First this year: laundry out to dry.

What's making you happy?

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The Lens of Love "Living as prayer. I think that

The Lens of Love

"Living as prayer. I think that is when I am at my best. Because seeing through prayer provides a remarkable clarity. Not in the doctrinal sense, but because it is, at best, the lens of a love for every tattered inch of this earth." IMANI PERRY

Let us love every tattered inch of each other and this earth.

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Bluebells and Pink Moon "When we release expectat

Bluebells and Pink Moon

"When we release expectation and invite appreciation, all the moments of our lives become openings and opportunities." KRISTI NELSON

May spring shower you with opportunity.

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Bone dry. We need a good rain. If you paint umbre

Bone dry.

We need a good rain. If you paint umbrellas are you inviting mother nature to shower you?

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Ephemeral I learned this morning that plants like

Ephemeral

I learned this morning that plants like bleeding hearts, also known as dutchmen's britches, are called ephemeral.

Once spring eases into summer, their foliage dies back. Though they continue to live underground.

Wondering what's thriving underground in your spirit, awaiting just the right conditions to bloom?

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Top Shelf We often call liquor of the finest qual

Top Shelf

We often call liquor of the finest quality "top shelf." In our closets, tops shelves often become hideaways for secret selves. Clothes we hope to fit into, secrets tucked away in boxes, things we can't yet part with.

We often put our desires for exploring our creative selves on the top shelf. Either because we think we can't create "quality" or because we're afraid it's a "waste of time," of "no use," or "childish."

Often, we're most afraid of where unleashing all this cooperation with the creative divine might lead us.

If this description speaks to you, try this Japanese art style called "enso." Use whatever mark-making tool is close to hand, marker, pencil, pen, paint. Make a giant "O."

Notice how your O represents absolute enlightenment, strength, elegance, the universe, and the void. See what a brilliant creative you are?

May you flourish in creative cooperation with the universe.

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Need a pick-me-up today? Three ways to hear (or s

Need a pick-me-up today?

Three ways to hear (or say) I love you. Swipe right.

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Forget focus; embrace playing. You've read this a

Forget focus; embrace playing.

You've read this a million times: set your goals, focus, do the work. We stay so focused on the results that we miss the life we are actually living. We focus so much on tomorrow, we miss today.

Friends, today is all we're certain of getting.

I fall into this trap almost every day. Yesterday I tried something new. Instead of trying to paint the perfect daffodil, I played around.

Playing was a good reminder that what we care about at the end of each day is how we feel about the day, not what we accomplished. How we live is as important as what we count as our accomplishments.

How are you feeling right now? May you find room for play, exploration, and joy.

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The great untangling "The season has begun to pry

The great untangling

"The season has begun to pry at winter buds, loosening their tight knots, patiently untangling them into blossoms." Mary Jo Hoffman

Sometimes our hearts are like buds, tight little knots. We hang onto those knots as hedges against uncertainty, ambiguity, fear, and loss.

May your heart unfurl, untangle and release whatever is holding the budding potential.

May you blossom.

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"Just for now, without asking how, let yourself si

"Just for now, without asking how, let yourself sink into stillness." Dana Faulds.

In a week that's included prepping for taxes and lots of doctor's appointments with loved ones, I remind myself there's time without knowing all the answers or understanding how to sink into stillness.

May we slow enough to notice the quality of stillness, our capacity for ambiguity, the wonder of everything ordinary, and those who help us shoulder the weight of the world.

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So much conspired to bring me this moment. Finding

So much conspired to bring me this moment. Finding and losing, electric and magnetic polarizability, the way a heart breaks and mends, the sting of life and joy.

Wrapped in this moment of pears sitting in a dish....the best i can do.

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"The gardener digs in another time, without past o

"The gardener digs in another time, without past or future, beginning or end. A time that does not cleave the day with rush hours, lunch breaks, the last bus home. As you walk in the garden you pass into this time — the moment of entering can never be remembered. Around you, the landscape lies transfigured. Here is the Amen beyond the prayer." Derek Jarman

May your day be filled with an everlasting Amen.

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"In a world of noise, confusion and conflict, it i

"In a world of noise, confusion and conflict, it is necessary that there is a place of inner silence and peace, not the peace of mere relaxation but the peace of inner clarity and love." Thomas Merton

May you find your inner meadow of silence and peace.

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The April newsletter is out! Loads of fun stuff, t

The April newsletter is out! Loads of fun stuff, two new digital books of animal drawings full of whimsy and thoughtful commentary on the pandemic by local artist and writer Naomi McCormick. And fabulously detailed animal pencil drawings by artist Mary Burrell, https://www.instagram.com/maryburrellstudio/

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Prepping for watercolor painting class tonight. Co

Prepping for watercolor painting class tonight. Color mixing, so soothing and fun to make magic happen! Can't wait to see the magic students make.

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Such bounty! The garden is putting on a show with

Such bounty! The garden is putting on a show with snowdrops, scilla, daffodils, forsythia, lenten roses, spring anemone all blooming. Thank goodness it cooled down today. Another near 80-degree day and the show would have been short.

Spring in the garden is such a roller-coaster ride, thrilling and thrumming with the anticipation at how short the ride.

May your ride today thrill and thrum.

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My latest obsession: a herbarium, a systemic colle

My latest obsession: a herbarium, a systemic collection of plants. This is my third attempt at painting the gardens, one plant at a time, as they bloom.

Each failed attempt teaches me something.
It's a good reminder that vital living requires occasionally setting out for the horizon.

Testing ourselves, our skills, and knowledge, accepting the inevitable setbacks and failures as opportunities to learn and grow.

Where are you experiencing the green, growing edge in your life?

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