Many years ago my father took a trip to northern Italy, his mother’s birthplace. My tiny Italian grandmother had arrived in America on a boat, accompanying her new husband after World War I. They settled …
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The Madonna and me
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LAST THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain This day is done. But tomorrow offers a whole new chance to get started again. A clean slate, blank page, or fresh canvas waiting to …
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Healing through creativity
Creation can mean salvation. Whether it’s visual or verbal, having an outlet to process thoughts, emotions, and personal struggles is a life-giving force. Translating those experiences into words, pictures, or some other tangible form heals …
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FRESH OFF THE PAGE
Few people in my life ever knew that I wrote poetry. I would just quietly fill notebooks up with my little verbal snapshots, hiding them away. So putting my poems online for other people to read is a bit …
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LAST THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
“Beautiful things don’t need attention.” Courtesy of Sean Penn’s photographer character in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, which I watched for the first time the other day. Great quote, great movie.
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There once was a girl who really loved to write …
Shortly after I began posting to this site, gradually putting more and more of my artwork up and writing my blog, I noticed a strange sensation starting to come over me; very pleasant, expansive, but also a bit foreign. I could compare the …
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LAST THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
“Of course we can always imagine more perfect conditions, how it should be ideally, how everyone else should behave. But it’s not our task to create an ideal. It’s our task to see how it …
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Meeting Georgia
Georgia O’Keefe loved the American Southwest. Her colorful desert landscapes and iconic skulls left an indelible impression on me even when I was very young and first learning to draw and paint. I never quite understood …
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What does ‘Creative Journeywoman’ mean anyway?
When I was starting to think about what I wanted to put up on this blog, everything I enjoy and wanted to share came rushing at me all at once. I didn’t exactly know where …
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LOVE THIS
Great quote from Morton last night on Fortitude: Policeman Dan: “So what are you looking for?” Inspector Morton: “Satisfying answers to outstanding questions.” Me, too. Aren’t we all?
Jacqlyn Thorne 