Category: ELAN Blog
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Look Up…
Look down, look all around. Observe Your World. Keep your senses on alert for the new, the colorful, the repeated themes and connections. I’ve been wanting to read “Island” by Aldous Huxley yet again, which begins with a mynah calling “Attention,” and “Here and now, boys, here and now.” Imagine having a bird on your…
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Wednesday Blogs Have Moved…
To all who follow and peek at my blog, please find the Wednesday posts at their new location – Substack. Here is a link to my site, “Confessions of a Creative” where I post midweek. I’ll continue to send inspirational short blogs and quotes on this page Mondays and Fridays. Thanks, especially for reading, sharing…
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Adventure Awaits…
I love adventures. Friends have hiked the Camino de Santiago in Spain or climbed ancient steps to Machu Pichu. One day I may add them to my own big escapades that include exploring the underground villages of Cappadocia and the sacred churches of Lalibela. While some adventures stand out as exciting or unusual, they don’t…
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Making Space…
My cup runneth over with family time, friend time, and fun time until the richness and goodness of social gatherings spill over to excess. It’s all good, but eventually one needs space to breathe and just be. For me, that looks like reading or playing piano or walking for no other purpose than to be…
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Midnight Alarms…
My deep sleep was interrupted recently by a fire truck beeping, backing up in front of our house. There’s something jarring about a surprise fire department visit, especially in the middle of the night. Turns out, it was a false alarm and neighborhood texts confirmed there was no danger. Still, I wandered around in that…
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It’s Not That Complicated…
Today I offer you a brief opinion piece I wrote during a recent writing class. The prompt was “It’s not that complicated,” and we were given twenty minutes to write. While I could embellish, clean up and tighten the writing, I am merely posting it here to illustrate the power of quick writing to a…
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Simple Gifts…
A friend recently received free groceries when the young man in front of her paid her total. Her first inclination was to insist it wasn’t necessary; she could pay, no help needed. But it was necessary. To him. Was it random? Maybe. Radical? Yes. How brave must one be to extend such an unexpected offer,…
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Train Your Mind…
I’ve been working on mind-tuning, turning toward joy and away from Doom and Gloom. I don’t need to list reasons why it seems an increasingly difficult task. No doubt you have your own G&D list that invades your imaginings of the worst that can happen in any given established system or way of life or…
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So Simple…
I love dichotomic ideas that seem black and white, A or B. They provide a toe-hold and a hand grip on the frenetic rock wall of life. Writers create, authors sell. So simple. So true. Anyone who has put fingers to a keyboard or pencil to paper is a writer, but only authors succeed in…
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