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i've been sprucing and posting over at my new site
yearning for 2013 and all the arty goodness it will bring
hope to have some art posted in my Etsy Store by December :)
xoxox
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Monday
Painting!
I've been participating in Jenny Doh's Painting Studio once a month - it is a great bunch and we all were invited to hang our pieces at the studio for Jenny's book signing/open studio this month:
I painted all day yesterday with the ladies - some on the painting above and I started a new larger canvas that will be a test for a piece I have in mind for my parent's fireplace - wish me luck ;) I'm also taking a beginning painting class through the city that is based more on realistic images so that should be challenging - I like painting more when it doesn't have to BE something!!
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| Joanna & i in front of our work |
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| a work in progress |
Sunday
Welcome 2012
Seems like a lot of people i know couldn't wait for 2011 to end - they say bring on 2012 - but i loved everything about my life during this past trip around the sun - i feel as if i LIVED this year - the word of the year was vitality and man did i take that seriously ;) i loved big, i traveled (a lot), i worked out, i ate right, i made art, i made new friends, i saw projects completed, i earned plenty of money, i gained new clients, i delegated (finally), i advanced my career and my creativity, and i did it all with energy and grace inside the universal flow.
That's a lot of wonderful and now I'm raising my champagne glass to 2012 - Cheers to me, to you, to us, may we continue on this great journey with grace, passion, vitality, and illumination!
xoxo
That's a lot of wonderful and now I'm raising my champagne glass to 2012 - Cheers to me, to you, to us, may we continue on this great journey with grace, passion, vitality, and illumination!
xoxo
Monday
Getting my paint on!
I took a fabulous workshop with Flora Bowley who I now have a mad crush on! She is too cool! Two days of painting bliss - the first time I've painted on canvas and they are big too! We flung paint and then I worked one of my pieces into something that looks a lot like Flora's work so I'll have to work on my style - whatever that might be ;) 
Friday
Monday
Italy - Part I
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| Colleseo |
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| alley altar |
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| enjoying the golden light |
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| Bronze Doors - Firenze Ghiberti - The Baptistry |
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| Hands - Francesco Clemente |
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| Ponte Vecchio |
Thursday
Paris - Part II
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| at Pierre's concert |
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| a gorgeous day |
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| our neighborhood for the week |
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| paris romance |
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| locked in love |
Friday
processing Squam and Paris then comes Italy.....and Paris again
Squam Art - click here
Paris - Day One
Paris - Day One
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| the view from our room |
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| notre dame |
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| my dinner with Andre ;) |
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| Sacre Couer - montmartre at midnight |
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| ahh cafe creme w notre dame view - blissful |
Thursday
with my morning coffee
From John O'Donohue's To Bless the Space Between Us and these are the last two stanzas of his poem "A Morning Offering." may my mind come alive today to the invisible geography that invites me to new frontiers to break the dead shell of yesterdays to risk being disturbed and changed may I have the courage today to live the life that I would love to postpone my dream no longer but do at last what I came here for and waste my heart on fear no more. |
Tuesday
SQUAM BLISS part one
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| squam lake |
the trees, the lake - blissful nature scenery - it brought tears to my eyes when we first arrived at camp - i crave the forest and the earthy grounded peace it brings
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| magical forest art |
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| my piece from Cal's unconventional embroidery class |
Monday
Wise words from Inspiration & Chai
People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality. I learnt never to underestimate someone's capacity for growth. Some changes were phenomenal. Each experienced a variety of emotions, as expected, denial, fear, anger, remorse, more denial and eventually acceptance. Every single patient found their peace before they departed though, every one of them.
When questioned about any regrets they had or anything they would do differently, common themes surfaced again and again. Here are the most common five:
1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
This was the most common regret of all. When people realise that their life is almost over and look back clearly on it, it is easy to see how many dreams have gone unfulfilled. Most people had not honoured even a half of their dreams and had to die knowing that it was due to choices they had made, or not made.
It is very important to try and honour at least some of your dreams along the way. From the moment that you lose your health, it is too late. Health brings a freedom very few realise, until they no longer have it.
2. I wish I didn't work so hard.
This came from every male patient that I nursed. They missed their children's youth and their partner's companionship. Women also spoke of this regret. But as most were from an older generation, many of the female patients had not been breadwinners. All of the men I nursed deeply regretted spending so much of their lives on the treadmill of a work existence.
By simplifying your lifestyle and making conscious choices along the way, it is possible to not need the income that you think you do. And by creating more space in your life, you become happier and more open to new opportunities, ones more suited to your new lifestyle.
3. I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings.
Many people suppressed their feelings in order to keep peace with others. As a result, they settled for a mediocre existence and never became who they were truly capable of becoming. Many developed illnesses relating to the bitterness and resentment they carried as a result.
We cannot control the reactions of others. However, although people may initially react when you change the way you are by speaking honestly, in the end it raises the relationship to a whole new and healthier level. Either that or it releases the unhealthy relationship from your life. Either way, you win.
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
Often they would not truly realise the full benefits of old friends until their dying weeks and it was not always possible to track them down. Many had become so caught up in their own lives that they had let golden friendships slip by over the years. There were many deep regrets about not giving friendships the time and effort that they deserved. Everyone misses their friends when they are dying.
It is common for anyone in a busy lifestyle to let friendships slip. But when you are faced with your approaching death, the physical details of life fall away. People do want to get their financial affairs in order if possible. But it is not money or status that holds the true importance for them. They want to get things in order more for the benefit of those they love. Usually though, they are too ill and weary to ever manage this task. It is all comes down to love and relationships in the end. That is all that remains in the final weeks, love and relationships.
5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.
This is a surprisingly common one. Many did not realise until the end that happiness is a choice. They had stayed stuck in old patterns and habits. The so-called 'comfort' of familiarity overflowed into their emotions, as well as their physical lives. Fear of change had them pretending to others, and to their selves, that they were content. When deep within, they longed to laugh properly and have silliness in their life again.
When you are on your deathbed, what others think of you is a long way from your mind. How wonderful to be able to let go and smile again, long before you are dying.
Life is a choice. It is YOUR life. Choose consciously, choose wisely, choose honestly. Choose happiness.
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