Tag: dailyprompt
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Happy Yule: A Recipe for Happiness
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” ― Mahatma Gandhi Today is the Winter Solstice, and last night we experienced the New Moon. An extra dark and long night paved over us, so now we must make way for the return of the sun and brighter…
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The Art of Patience: The Three-Year Sweater
“Goals are like apples in a tree. Some are a little higher than others, so you just have to jump higher.” ― Morten Andersen If there is one thing people have said to me over and over, it is that I have an incredible amount of patience. However, I hope one day that that they…
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Daily Art Musings: A First Time for Starting Over; The Necessary Evil of Frogging
“You can’t be afraid to burn everything down and start from scratch. Because the only direction you will go from there, is up. New opportunities will have no choice but to eventually open up for you.” ― Robin S. Baker I was once in love with a very expensive yarn, heathered in shades of olive, moss,…
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Daily Art Musings: Forest Walks and Local Colors
“entering the woods a hiking stick selects me to carry it” ― Cor van den Heuvel, Modern Haiku 44:1, Winter–Spring 2013 There was a time when I was incredibly active: soccer, track, gymnastics, martial arts, weight training, and swimming were all part of my life simultaneously and as easy to conduct as breathing. However, being an athlete…
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Daily Art Musings: Admiring Folk Art
“He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina It occurred to me just how much American culture has undergone a sort of “grayification,” “squarification,” and “boxification,” which has inevitably led to a…
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Yarn Weights for Regular People
“There’s great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you’re taking some time away from turning the pages, answering your emails, talking to people on the phone, and you’re letting your brain process whatever is stuck up in there.” — Chellie Pingree The World of Yarn When…
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Daily Art Musings: I Really Needed to See This
“I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.” ― Frida Kahlo Other than the brutal ice of the December cold, my own mind has been chilled, often wishing I existed in an alternate timeline. I drown the realities out with work and alcohol, and exist daily in a purgatory of action and denial. It occurred…
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How to Make an Elegant Fabric Bookmark
“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are” ― Mason Cooley Although admittedly I never get through as many books as I wish annually, I love to read. It began as a struggle when I was a child, falling behind in elementary school while watching my classmates vigorously complete those old…
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Alchemy
Happy Halloween! Alchemy is one of my favorite words. I distinctly remember the first time I saw it. I was in middle school playing a stunning fantasy video game on my Game Boy Advance called Golden Sun. In a nutshell, the game is about eight young people on a quest to save their world. The…
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Soup is Witchcraft: A Recipe for Pumpkin Chicken Noodle Soup
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” ― from Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery This is the ultimate season… for colds! I adore October, but for some reason this is also the month where sickness sweeps over the household. Like clockwork, it is on time, keeping us…
The Alchemist Diaries 