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A Colorful Kind of Joy, a Ten-Pack of Winners and the 2014 Workshops Are Coming!!
Eddie says I need to just go ahead and announce the ten awesome peeps who won a copy of my latest book Be Inspired, Adventures for the Heart. Says the excitement is killing him. (I’m sure it has nothing to do with him wanting to take a nap on the chair where I have the…
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True Colors
I love the song by that same name (True Colors). A reminder that the real beauty lies in being ourselves, showing our true colors. The patina that comes with the age of the buildings in France has a beauty that a new “perfectly finished” building of today simply cannot compete with. Old fashioned roses have…
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True Blue Friends
Springfield, Virginia Workshop I has been filled with…. Blossoms Washington under the stars Little Italian donuts with chocolate and amaretto dipping sauce with fresh dark roast coffee and Ducks (Meet my friend Duckie waiting tub side as a welcome for weary travelers at a roadside hotel in Staunton, VA. He’s now traveling with me and…
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A Delightful Thanks
“All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.” ~ Doris Lessing
“We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight.” ~ Jack Gilbert.
“The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacitybicycles….
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Edzactly
The hiding of the eggs. It’s an Easter tradition. I was actually looking forward to doing it this year, what with having a youngster in the house, one Eddie Pierre….now a whole one year old.
Excited until….
“I tell you Phyllis you have to pull out all the stops when it comes to hiding these things….its eggsactly what I told you. He’s EATING LIKE A HORSE!!!”
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Spring Break
Spring is in the air…can you feel it??
Hmmm, me neither!!! After an crazy warm March last year, this March has turned out to be CRAZY COLD!
So…..I took an unexpected, uncalled for, unplanned , HIGHLY enjoyed….
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A Light Dance in the Garden
There are many things to love. Fresh laundry drying in the breeze
moss providing a soft green seat on low stone walls
Sister pots hugging favored flowers under the arms of younger….
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Step Inside
Inviting, eh?
A bramble of roses cascading outward,
turquoise gate ajar just enough to allow entry,
sunshine heating up slabs of stone.
A special place for you.
A respite from the day, from weariness, from sorrows.
Step inside
For inside you
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My France, My Heart
Ample shade under French blue skies.
That’s what I’m talkin’ about;)!
Carmel, Indiana Workshop II
What’s a little cold weather and snow outside when there are paintings to be done???
Here’s living proof that you can’t keep good artists from doing what they love to do:)))
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"Spring Delicacy"
Carmel is one fun place.
Did you know it was voted the #1 place in America to live in 2012 by CNN’s Money Magazine??? Me neither!
I’m not talking about Carmel, CA—the place most artists know so well and that sits by the sea.
We’re talkin’ Carmel, Indiana….specifically the Arts District, home to my two last workshops:))!
First off all, it has amazing food! ( Think tortellini soup, brie log covered in strawberries, and
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