My Newest Online Course Launches Soon
I hope you will join me for my next online art course, combining poetry and creative writing with paint!
The class is called “Playing With Fire // Poetry and Paint as Kindling”, and it will be my third course that I have created for my friend Jeanne Oliver’s beautiful creative community.
Whether your thing is creative writing (prose/poetry) or sketch or collage or abstract or learning what I call “studio best practices” -
whether you are interested in spiritual journaling, Lectio Divina, or simply how to slow down and really see your own life, my next course has something so spacious and good in store for you. You can skim it and love it, or you can go deep, deep with it, and it will radically transform.
Oh, for sure.
But first, register at the early bird price! This price goes away in a week or so! The link is here
Doing The Hard Thing Brings Unearned Undeserved Favor
This week seems to be the week where I am oft-inspired to pinch myself.
I can’t believe I get to do what I do. I can’t believe that I get to touch a paintbrush to a canvas and express myself. I can’t believe that other souls resonate with what they see, and decide to create a beautiful, valuable, equal exchange of energy (read: they pay me to do this thing!).
I can’t believe that I regularly receive emails with pictures (the shot above is one example, received a couple of nights ago) and words that say, “I cried. I opened your art, and I cried.”
This is the sort of thing that happens when the King is your friend. This is the sort of thing that happens when a woman in the middle takes the “road less traveled by”. This is the sort of thing that happens when a woman in the middle stays the course set before her, refusing to leave her post - the outcome ends up being something she did not earn and could never deserve. (Do you hear the “both/and” in that? I have deep theological reasons for it - going all the way back to God’s covenant with Abram. But I am pretty sure you want to keep that for another post for another day!)