I just returned from a short trip to California to visit friends who recently moved back there. Believe it or not this was my first time to southern California! I love looking at landscapes, especially the different vegetation found in new places I visit. My favorite were the cypress trees, so magestic against the blue [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Beautiful California
Posted in Uncategorized on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
New Traditions
Posted in Uncategorized on December 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This past weekend Paul and I had such fun at our friend Kat’s house partaking in her new tradition of a gingerbread house party! We were greeted with tasty drinks and shown to the floor where a large cloth filled with “materials” was there waiting for us. We had graham crakers, chocolate morsels, marshmallows, gummy [...]
Discovery
Posted in happiness, motivational, personal and professional development, tagged emotion, imagination, inspiration, quotes on December 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust
I love this quote. Because I am such a visual person, quotes that bring up vivid powerful pictures really hit home for me. This one brings up so much. On one hand I imagine myself on a boat in [...]
My Story of Creative Re-Awakening
Posted in coaching, motivational, personal and professional development, tagged creativity, expression, self espression on December 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
My creative outlet began with a childhood desire to learn to paint. My mother enrolled me in “art school” which in truth was spending a few hours with Lori, a local artist who offered lessons from her basement art studio. I loved it – even at age 7 and 8 the smell of the oil [...]
