The Art of the Middle (...and Laura McCollough's Art and Faith Creative Retreats...}
Given the fact that I didn’t pick up a paintbrush until I was middle age - well past my mid-forties, and I am only now almost 52 - it can seem like a kind of miracle that I traveled to Bellagio, Italy to teach art last week! Consider this quote: “The great victory, which appears so simple today, was the result of a series of small victories that went unnoticed.”
The Ministry of Presence, Our Stories Matter, and Jeanne Oliver's New Book
Two years ago, I was the first one of the two of us to visit my sweetest friend Jeanne Oliver. (Read about it here.) She invited me to be a part of her very first art workshop in her stunning new studio.
Jeanne lives in an absolutely beautiful part of Castle Rock, Colorado, in an absolutely beautiful home. Jeanne has impeccable taste. I will never stop bothering her to write a book on all things home and creative living. She embodies the beauty of those concepts like no one else I know.
Then...Jeanne came to visit me. Last week.
One Perfect Day
The cherries were ripe on the trees today, and the rain poured sweet and steady. Why not pick cherries in the rain?
So cherries were playfully picked...
My Newest Project: “Middle Kindling | A Collection of Audio Meditations To Stoke Your Creative Recovery”
I am in the creation-phase of a brand new collection of audio meditations.
This particular collection is for women “in the middle” who find themselves in a creative/artistic dry place. This collection will minister to women whose creative springs have been choked by grief or depression or the non-stop, titanic waves of transition that tend to characterize midlife.