6/52

Posted on February 9, 2014 by Lydia | Leave a comment

This is my photo submission for week 6 of The 52 project. I apologize in advance because I have no g’children photos this week. Given that I’ve taken no photos of myself for weeks, I’ve chosen a photo that doesn’t warm my heart like my kids or g’children, but is still near and dear to my heart. For reasons that you will understand in moments, she is like another of my children. If you read my blog, you’ve probably read the story behind this piece, so by all means, feel free to enjoy one of my other posts.

In the interest of brevity, I’ve always yearned to paint and draw but was convinced that I couldn’t do either. In 2013, in spite of my fears, I took my first painting and drawing e-courses. I was seriously hooked! After less than a month of beginning my first drawing class, I drew, collaged and painted the above piece. I look at her whenever I doubt myself and feel that I can’t do something. She reminds me that I must banish the words “I can’t” from my vocabulary, because they only serve to limit the amazing things that I can do.

Blessings, Lydia

All Will Be Well, ~ Julian of Norwich

Creative Writing Saturday

Posted on February 8, 2014 by Lydia | Leave a comment

forest light (Photo credit: neil1877)

Sleeping In The Forest

“I thought the earth remembered me,
she took me back so tenderly,
arranging her dark skirts, her pockets
full of lichens and seeds.
I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed,
nothing between me and the white fire of the stars
but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths
among the branches of the perfect trees.
All night I heard the small kingdoms
breathing around me, the insects,
and the birds who do their work in the darkness.
All night I rose and fell, as if in water,
grappling with a luminous doom. By morning
I had vanished at least a dozen times
into something better.” ~ Mary Oliver

You Are Somebody

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Lydia | Leave a comment

Yes, as the bumper sticker saying, not Gandhi, goes, “be the change that you wish to see in the world.” It is so common these days, for us to see a situation that cries for change, but we simply walk by, believing or hoping that someone else will accept the task. Imagine the change that would grip the world, if each of us becomes the ‘somebody’ that initiates the necessary change. Granted, in many cases, change will not happen by your actions alone, but you will know that instead of being a passive bystander, your small act may be one of many that paves the road to real change. Be that somebody.

Blessings, Lydia

All Will Be Well, ~ Julian of Norwich

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