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Living Arts Weekly: Getting Real

May 19, 2019 I have often called attention to the fact that walking through the streets in the Middle Ages was a different experience from nowadays. Right and left, there were house facades that were built out of what the soul felt and thought. Every key, every lock, carried the imprint of the person who […]

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Living Arts Weekly: Mother

May 12, 2019 Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had, and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed.  – Linda Wooten Happy Mother’s Day to all!  Kerry Ingram, LifeWays board member and founder of Mothering Arts, posed a question last year that I have been thinking about a lot lately. 

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Living Arts Weekly: Fragrance

April 28, 2019 There is no glory in star or blossom til looked upon by a loving eye;  There is no fragrance in April breezes til breathed with joy as they wander by.  — William Cullen Bryant The Spring air has a freshness that is intoxicating.  One of my favorite sense experiences is to embrace

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Living Arts Weekly: Regeneration

April 21, 2019 Looking down at my hands, finally I understand The empty space has changed somehow and it’s filled with Hallelujah now.  — Carrie Newcomer, “The Point of Arrival” I walk through a patch of woods at the farm where my husband and his work crew cleared buckthorn last fall.  There’s a pile of

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Living Arts Weekly: Creativity

August 7, 2019 Creativity is intelligence having fun – Albert Einstein Our April theme in Living Arts Through the Seasons is Creativity!  Oftentimes, the creativity of others leaves us speechless — the stunning painting, or the poem that perfectly expresses our own thoughts. But we disregard our own creativity.  This month we want to remind

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Living Arts Weekly: Transitions

March 31, 2019 Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.  — Fred Rogers I was elated to see the first crocuses peeking out in my yard this week!  The transition from winter to spring brings joy

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Living Arts Weekly: Seedling

March 24, 2019 Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.  – Robert Louis Stevenson I planted the first tiny seeds for my garden this week; settled them into the seed trays filled with potting soil and worm compost, and tucked them under the grow lights in

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Living Arts Weekly: Community

March 17, 2019 In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it. – Marianne Williamson Today is the one-year anniversary of the Living Arts Weekly blog!  What a fitting theme for our anniversary issue — community.  And

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