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Crafty Tuesday When One’s Muse takes a Coffee Break

| January 28, 2020

There comes a point in every creative person’s life where it feels like the spark that drives their work becomes a dull ember.  It can be for a million different reasons. Re-sparking can be easy or hard depending on circumstance. I had a creative drought or rather an execution drought after Peter’s stroke. I had […]

Monday Morning Musings Mindfulness

| January 27, 2020

Mindfulness (noun)- a mental state achieved by focusing one’s awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one’s feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique. It is funny when you find a word for something you have been doing most of your life. I called it being in the here and […]

RTBTCKI Sunny Sunday in January

| January 26, 2020

Facebook has a function that let’s one look back over the years to what one wrote on a particular day. I was looking at today’s and found that most years, seven out of ten, this day has been about taking care of snow fall and icy conditions. Today we have sunshine and a temperature of […]

Gung Hei Fat Choi The Year of the Metal Rat

| January 25, 2020

Today is the Chinese Lunar New Year. The year of the metal rat which is the first sign in the Chinese Zodiac after cheating in a race. Rats are seen as a sign of wealth and surplus in Chinese culture. Right now if you have business in China, you are at a stand-still until the […]

Slow Start to a Long Day

| January 24, 2020

Yesterday I went into the city and met up with some friends to catch up on life. These are people I would have never met if I had followed the path I thought I was going to follow after High School. It was nice to talk about all kinds of topics and I came back […]