Logic will get you from A to Z. Imagination will get you everywhere. -- Albert Einstein Where are you planning to go this week?
Author: norma17
A Surface Design Tool
This week’s studio work includes using products from one of our fellow Etsy shops, PG Fiber2Art. They market thermofax screens which are great for applying painted design to paper or fabric. We had the BOLD made for our new fiber tags. We ordered our fibergig name in two sizes, one for bags and one for … Continue reading A Surface Design Tool
A Stole for Ordinary Time
Take my yoke upon you....for my yoke is easy and my burden is light. About 7 years ago, a Lutheran pastor and I discussed movement away from congregations owning buildings. We talked about a more flexible church. We chatted excitedly about moveable altars and banners and worshippers with electronic tablets, not hymnals, in hand. We … Continue reading A Stole for Ordinary Time
A Year of Listening: Week 31
Art does not reproduce the invisible; rather it makes it visible. -- Paul Klee
A Year of Listening: Week 26
What you praise, you increase. -- Catherine Ponder
A Year of Listening: Week 23
What it comes to is that anybody can win with the best horse. What makes you good is if you can take the second- or third- best horse and win. -- Vicky Aragon These few words evoke great connections for me: my daughter loving an odd little horse, my Grandma Alice combining the remains of Sunday … Continue reading A Year of Listening: Week 23
A Year of Listening: Week 22
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. -- Albert Einstein My third year of full-time self-employment begins this week. I have a good week of work ahead of me: a summer shawl, a painted wrap and an apron to finish, next steps … Continue reading A Year of Listening: Week 22
A Year of Listening:Week 21
A paradox is only the truth standing on its head to attract attention. -- G. K. Chesterton Paradox evokes larger perspective thinking in me. Memorial Day was once observed on the last day of May. Now it is celebrated the last Monday in May, creating a holiday weekend. The local ceremony to honor veterans was … Continue reading A Year of Listening:Week 21
A Year of Listening: Week 24
Stand at the crossroads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way lies, and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. -- Jeremiah 6:16
A Year of Listening: Week 20
I believe that we are offered up opportunities to practice and rewrite the places in our souls where we have not best served ourselves. -- Norma Colman Yes, I am quoting myself this morning. This was written a decade ago and I rediscovered the words this winter. My sister, Beth Nyland, and I discussed Sabbath … Continue reading A Year of Listening: Week 20