Writing Prompt When I think of setting goals, whether long-term or short-term, I clothe them in a blanket of hope. As I pondered the promp...

  We all know just how cracked and broken this world and we ourselves are, yet when I read Ann Voskamp's book One Thousand Gifts , she c...

    She walks in beauty. [Pic from Pixabay] Reflections on Beauty Helen Keller Blind, deaf, mute Intelligent and inspiring Reminds us that T...

What brings pleasure to my senses? As I pondered the prompt for this month's blog post, I scrolled through photos from the years gone by...

  June 2026: Writing as beauty. In his book Beauty: The Invisible Embrace, John O'Donahue writes "to participate in beauty is to co...

 To knit is to weave and knot together in a pleasing way. Those who knit take simple yarn and follow a pattern to produce something beautifu...

  " A good person brings good things out of the good  stored up in her/his heart."  Luke 6:45 Writers think a lot. We imagine, we ...

  Words are marvelous things. Little bits of sounds and letters combined in infinite ways to convey emotions, intentions, actions, and thoug...

In preparation for this month’s post I concentrated on one theme. As a creative person I try to capture beauty thr...

~~~~~ Photo by  Bonnie Kittle  on  Unsplash ~~~~~ I step out my front door and marvel at the matted brown grass on my lawn. ...

In my December newsletter , I wrote about how I chose my key word for 2020. Actually, it chose me. And now that I’ve already begun focus...

In the beginning God created. God spoke words and created what pleased Him.   I feel closest to God when I am creating with words.  ...

“You are altogether beautiful, my darling; there is no flaw in you.”—Song of Solomon 4:7 To know we can create beauty is altogether...