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Monday, March 24, 2008

Telling Stories...let your inner child guide and illuminate your way...

These are symbols carved out of trees. They have meaning and tradition. They are symbols of the soul's palette just like the words we write. Make friends with your adjectives, your nouns and your verbs. Give each a specific jobs. Keep everyone busy especially the verbs. Action, action, action. Then... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, March 23, 2008

Imagine Me, on this Easter day,

Once a wary little child, Now a moody blue’s poet, living on the fifties’ down Side of Blueberry Hill, The ride driven by “Temptations” With my poems shaking, rattling and rolling onto paper while a ligning my blue moon on the day of Easter. We’re all uniquely designed because nature abhorred... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, March 22, 2008

Even Socrates says, “The unexamined life is not worth living.”

Luther Burbank, American naturalist, says “For those who do not think, it is best to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.” I began wrapping my heart and my imagination around my memories using them to create art. I found joy. I found satisfaction and I found I could create goodness. I didn’t... Sign in to see full entry.

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I'm angry at myself for wasting so much time not being creative...

When at work I was thinking about being home. At home I was thinking about being elsewhere. It took years to begin to identify, understand and accept myself no matter where I was at the moment. It also took years for me to begin living in the present and embracing all that I was and all that I was... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, March 21, 2008

What one person finds funny, another person finds deranged...

Most of us laugh at what we find strange, unusual;, or illogical. I sometimes try to write seriously but it just comes out funny. Sometimes I'm talking about a serious subject and it just comes out funny. Humor is a matter of perspective; you know, how we see the world around us. I admit to seeing... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

I’ve started many days sitting at my computer in my gown...

Even though it seemed like hours since I first got up, when I looked outside a blanket of stars winked at me knowingly. I walked sleepily through the following days with glazed eyes and moving lips often brainstorming for that next sentence that would mirror my thoughts and embody my emotions. I... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

How to write good...never use a long word when a diminutive one will do...

We're all like children learning to speak, getting our point across. If you look for humor, it is all around us: One should never generalize. Eliminate quotations. Ralph Walso Emerson said, "I hate quotations." Tell me what you know. Comparisons are as bad as cliches. Don't be redundant; don't use... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, March 16, 2008

Why are we so hard on ourselves?

Years go in college, my drawing teacher instructed the class to show him a line with character, and then arrogantly walked out of the room with no more explanation. All of us laughed, took up our pencils and proceeded to draw a line with character. Mine was curved and wavy with lots of personality,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Imaging...don't you just love to doodle?

This was done in the Paint File of my computer. The above was pulled of my subconscious, quite unintended. Big surprise to me. I see myself hiding behind bangs, and I see mom laying down to the desires of others. I see my pop watching over for me from the city that never sleeps in heaven. I see... Sign in to see full entry.

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Using imagery as a remedy for what is ailing you...

When I began using imagery, like doodling, painting and photography, or even poems, as a remedy for what was ailing my soul, I found it was fun and relaxing. It also gave me something to do when I was bored or down. I liked expressing myself so much, I signed up for art and writing classes at a... Sign in to see full entry.

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I am many, a ceramic artist, a poet and a wanderer. Give yourself a hug by looking for my book, Sculpting the Heart, to be in print soon; or in the meantime, check out The Soul's Palette, written by Cathy Malchiodi, leading authority at TLC, National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children on Art Therapy

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