For sixty-three years I’ve ground myself within this karmic mortar. Yesterday I washed it out and put it high on the pantry shelf. From Braided Creek, by Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison In art, and in life, we have plenty of past to beat ourselves up over – the hardest person to forgive and accept…
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This week in The Pearl – September 26, 2025
We are so blessed to have friends and family, food, and a wonderful part of the world to live in. In anticipation of our friends Tim & Lisa coming over for Sunday lunch we spent Saturday doing some cleaning and food prep. Tricia did a repeat performance of her gratin de courgettes, I made a…
TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday Tip – for those who feel unartistic.
If you feel like you just aren’t artistic try just capturing the color of the moment. Years ago I started my “Yes! You can travelsketch!” workshops because so many people told me they were just not artistic, many who came found actually they could travelsketch. The purpose of travelsketching is to do something other than…
This week in The Pearl – September 19, 2025
Sorting through photos is one of the best ways to get pulled in a multitude of directions as old memories of places, people, and pets derail our thinking; in good ways for the most part. This week I was drawn again to some differences between France, Europe, and the US. Often these differences are subtle,…
This week in The Pearl – September 12, 2025
This week was quite different from our time in Colorado. We are back in The Pearl planning, of course, for our future excursions, bien sur – we have three in the works. However this week has been about friends and family – as well as some long anticipated medical stuff for Tricia. Alexis and Joe…
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