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Last fall I created a video called “Hope is Beautiful”. It is about my “gray” time of life and searching for hope in beauty and light. I wanted to create an email series to go with the video. So, I waited. And, there was a part of me that felt vulnerable to put out something …

The experience of beauty is like a homecoming. When we feel and see and touch the beautiful we feel that we are at one with ourselves. Because in some subtle and secret way beauty meets the needs of the soul.” ~ John O’Donohue There are times we need the beauty of nature. The wonder that a magical sunrise …

Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom.  They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.” ~Jim Carrey There is something about flowers that uplifts my heart. During the grieving journey, I was living in Florida so I was blessed with many flowers. Taking photos of flowers was …

I am delighted to share with you a chance to win a spot in Spirits of Joy, a 3o day e-course offered by Hannah Marcotti.  Last October, I saw on Facebook that Hannah Marcotti was offering free chances to take her Spirits of Joy class. Thirty days to connect with inner joy. It sounded simple, …

“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”~ Marc Riboud. Capturing magic and telling a story. I am taking a great E-course with photographer Catherine Just, called In Plain Sight, a 30 day project to uncover the magic in the everyday. On day 22 our project is to create a story of …

I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.” ~ Brene Brown It is easy for me to love others, with great kindness and compassion. Yet often I am not very kind and compassionate towards myself. Taking care of ourselves, loving ourselves, sounds …

Begin today. Declare out loud to the universe that you are willing to let go of struggle and eager to learn through joy. ~Sarah Ban Breathnach Beginnings is the January blog circle theme. Beginnings should feel new, fresh, exciting. Yet over the last few years, during a time of family deaths, beginnings happened for me …

What if, instead of new year resolutions, you chose a word…one word? A word intention, guiding you throughout the year to the way you want to feel and be…instead of what you “have to do”.  It becomes a touchstone, a way of being, of growing, of inspiration. Simple, yet powerful. I invite you to try it …

At the beginning of 2012 I choose a word…light. One of the gifts of the previous “heavy” years of grief, was my learning to stay focused in the present. So I didn’t want to set big future goals, or even worse… resolutions. (My blog post about the word light is here.) Light was the perfect 2012 …

“When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things – not the great occasions – give off the greatest glow of happiness.” ~Bob Hope. I was cleaning out an old desk and found this photo of my kids, all dressed in their Christmas outfits. It started me reminiscing. (Yes, Joe, at age 4, …