Tag: Creativity
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Quilting a Life: A Conversation About the Value of Making Art
“Everything you can imagine is real.” Pablo Picasso My daughter-in-law and I chatted all weekend about the creative life, raising children and genealogy as somehow connected to our life’s purpose the last time she was up for a visit with my son and grandson. On this visit Sam brought along a current project she is…
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Are you afraid of your dreams?
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt “Do you think you could help deliver human babies now?” my daughter asked after I had to go in to help a mother ewe deliver her two lambs. “I promise to be on hand when you deliver your first baby…
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“Whatever you do, think of the glory of God as your main goal.” St. John Bosco
Do you want to romanticize your life? Here’s a way to do it. It’s not the burden I once thought it might be. I was the burden. My pride, my striving, my need to produce worthwhile things for the fleeting praise I’d receive. I didn’t believe in a yoke being light. A yoke meant work…
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8 Things I Learned From a Five Day Media Fast
To be honest, I can’t even remember what made me decide to take five days away from screen time. Maybe it was the binge watching of horse rescue videos I did over the holidays or the brain fog I was experiencing that left me with nothing but opinionated political commentary on my mind (none of…
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Poet: Paul Laurence Dunbar
He Had His Dream He had his dream, and all through life, Worked up to it through toil and strife. Afloat fore’er before his eyes, It colored for him all his skies: The storm-cloud dark Above his bark, The calm and listless vault of blue Took on its hopeful hue, It tinctured every passing beam…
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“Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection . . .
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and the patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. The fiery trial through which we pass, will…
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Reasons I’m Still Not Writing
When I wake up to this I tend to linger a little longer in the yard. Even the turkeys spend more time on their “deck.” Before it gets too hot and guests arrive I pickle and can beets (my sister loves them so I grow and preserve them for her visits). The guests arrive and…
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Every Character Has an Idol
Every character has an idol–morphine, romance, money. My books are about idolatry. My life is about it too. Idols are interesting and different and not usually little sculptures made of wood. They’re insidious and lurk in the shadows of our consciousness. Here’s the list of idols I’ve worshiped over the years: Perfection, thinness, my children’s…
Author Adrienne Morris 