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Lent

Submitted on 12 Mar 2009

We’re into Lent, it’s grey and flat but don’t be fooled, we’re waiting and preparing for the big events, for resurrection Sunday, for resurrection Spring.  So I’ll bide my time, and enjoy the milder weather, and make sure I notice the buds swelling out from flat, grey bark into round jewels of lemon-green.  The crocuses are up, standing as silent sentinels in the grey,  read more »

Valentine's day

Submitted on 12 Mar 2009

Valentine’s day and all is quiet.  The sun warms the tips of the houses and slithers in wet abandon across the frosty lawn.  The wintered leaves still stick in brown batches underfoot, some crispy, some soggy, covering the beginning-bare shoots that are poking through and preparing for spring.  The cool air holds the sun’s smile like ivy on a fortress.  The garden is full of shining sur  read more »

Julia Cameron

Submitted on 12 Mar 2009

My second hero is Julia Cameron.  Her book ‘The Artist’s Way’ not only supported my creativity, but encouraged a sense of adventure and of life opening up to new possibilities when it had felt as if it was going down hill and closing down around me.  It is a book for artists of any description, but as she says, we are all artists, and creativity is a spiritual experience.  It is a workbook so requires you to apply yourself to specific tasks, but it is well worth it. 

The other book of hers which I loved is ‘God is no laughing matter: observations and objections on the spiritual path’, a book with a similar goal to the book I have been writing.  She says ‘It is my hope that you will find this book hardheaded, softhearted, and playful.’

See www.theartistsway.com