Many years of coaching and counseling lead me to the conclusion that the source of most of our problems is the insecurity that springs from our sense that we don’t measure up. Nowhere is this more prevalent than in our art. People talk about themselves and art in comments that seem to be connected to…
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TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday – Travel on my mind
We had a wonderful holiday month, starting with seven of us at our small place for Thanksgiving. Then a few other times when people came over, then seven again here for Christmas Day. Then we had eight people on Friday when Tricia’s sister and family visited for the weekend from Seattle. In between our hosting…
TheTravelsketchers Tuesday – 4th week of Advent
The theme of the fourth week of Advent is love. Love is a funny thing – we love coffee, we love to travel, we love our cat… it is a word that we use for a lot of concepts. Love as taste, desire, or even lust. Love as affection or friendship. Much love is self…
TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… it has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. C. S. Lewis Here in the US we celebrate Thanksgiving Day this week. It always pains me when I hear it called “turkey day;” which implies a bit of extravagant consumption…
TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday – Finding peace
“Naturally, the more attention one gives to the deplorable conditions outside the less one is able to enjoy what peace and liberty he (she) possesses. Even if it be heaven we find ourselves in, we can render it suspect and dubious.” Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, 1957 My contemplation of…
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