37days Challenge Cards – A Note to Participating Artists
UPDATE – After some gnashing of teeth, a secret ceremony involving new math and Oreos, and the chipping of stone as I reinvented the wheel, I’ve emailed today all those artists who had enlisted in this art project as of Friday. SO, if you had expressed an interest but haven’t …
Join me
If you are in the Asheville area and not out on a hike in this gorgeous fall weather or at Tellabration listening to fabulous storytellers or sitting at home in your underwear solving Fermat’s last theorem, perhaps you will join me at Malaprop’s bookshop for a reading at 3pm today. …
Calling all artists…
It turns out that art = community = meaning. Artists are invited to create Artist Trading Cards (ATC) to illustrate my upcoming book, 37days. Artists of all kinds – digital artists, graphic designers, quilters, painters, weavers, calligraphers, mosaicists (is that a word?), you name it – are welcomed to participate. …
Let’s make art together, you and I
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." – Pablo Picasso Dang. Sometimes an email starts a revolution. Sometimes a spark is all that is needed for a full-fledged conflagration (I love that word) to occur, flame up, heat the air …
Carry a talisman
Oh, my. I am constantly reminded how incredible, artistic, engaged, passionate, real, true, and just plain wonderful you all are. Late last night, a reader of 37days named Donna Miller emailed. "Ever since you’ve begun your 37 Days without Complaint," she wrote, "the idea of fresh starts has been rattling …
Every Day is Day One
“Cultivating a generous spirit starts with mindfulness. Mindfulness, simply stated, means paying attention to what is actually happening; it’s about what is really going on.” – Nell Newman It came to me about two miles into my walk on treadmill #4 at the YWCA on French Broad Avenue today. As …
Learn what it looks like not to complain
Okay. This got me. It really got me. Not only because of the spirit of the young man featured, but because of the depth of love and devotion shown by his father. That is sheer, breathtaking love. And if I ever needed a kick in the butt to stop complaining, …
Be the tooth fairy
I really loved this story. [Be sure to click the link to "filled out her sister’s questionnaire."] That’s love.
Light goes on flying
Suddenly, it’s November 1st. Day Four of Day One of my challenge to be complaint-gripe-whine-and-gossip-free. Today I lasted until 8:18am. Light goes on flying. Soon it will be 2008. Imagine that. Light goes on flying. And I know that in the coming weeks, I may be here less as I …
Notice your first thought, and work on your second
I’m not complaining or whining, but being complaint free is hard. Since we have to start over again if we complain, I’m on Day Three of Day One. That’s not even counting the times I’ve complained (and loudly) inside my head. Today was one big complaint, inside and outside my …
