One size fits all dress. One size fits all birth plan. One size fits all vacation. One size fits all marriage or church or values or trajectory or pet or parenting style or hair color or friendship. One size fits all life, compartmentalized in a box, tidy, and tied with a ribbon. One size fits ... Read More about The Myth of One Size Fits All
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An Invitation to Beauty
When I was a little girl, I spent most of my childhood hidden away in the pages of a book or wandering in the woods listening to the birds and trees whisper stories. I was drawn to beauty and mystery in equal parts. I liked to think I was unique, set apart somehow by the things I loved, my senses ... Read More about An Invitation to Beauty
A Friend for the Journey
She sat between the two younger women, crowned with a head full of white curls, the glory of her ninety years radiating from the stage. I sat at a distance, unable to see much but the head of poet Luci Shaw from my seat in the auditorium. I focused instead on her words as a river of memories born ... Read More about A Friend for the Journey
Fame Doesn’t Satisfy the Soul’s Hunger
I read an article recently in which a handful of famous actors and musicians shared their thoughts on fame and life in the public eye. Overwhelmingly, they saw fame as a curse, resulting in a lifestyle they never would have chosen for themselves had they calculated the cost. In most cases fame cost ... Read More about Fame Doesn’t Satisfy the Soul’s Hunger
Five Steps to Living More Creatively
This one's for the artists, the magic-makers, the wannabes. It's for the closet creatives, the outsiders, the daydream believers. This one is for you, the one with the pocket full of treasures stored up with nowhere to empty them. And it's for you with the questions and the hollowed out well that ... Read More about Five Steps to Living More Creatively