Friday, February 21, 2014

Back Home

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Oh my.  It’s been a while, hasn’t it?  Life has been busy…for all of us, I’m sure!

I’ve missed my journaling.  I’ve missed the creative messes all around me as I think & doodle…

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…but I’m back.  A nice, long cruise led to being very sick, which led to lost weeks, it seems…but life is good at last.

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And the conclusion I’ve come to, once again, is that there really is no place like home…

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Home is many things, I think…the house you live in with the people you love, of course.  Home is also when you just feel right.  When you’re on top of things…

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…when you can work and think and do as you want to do…all that is home.  And home is very, very good.

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I guess it’s good, once in a while, to not be home so that you appreciate it fully, and never take it for granted.

I don’t think I ever will again…

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So glad to be home.

Julie

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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

For the Soul

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I’ve really missed the paint swirling onto my thick, beautiful watercolor paper…

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There’s something intoxicating about dipping brush into paint—then that first tip of color awash on the page---------------

MAGIC!

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Layers of color.  Gold and silver.  Then words on paper gathered from thoughts in your head…

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So wonderful what a few simple things combined together can do for the soul.

See you soon with something new.

Julie

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Seeing Rightly

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I think I’m feeling the rosy flush of Valentine’s Day drawing near…

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Lots of hearts in my pages lately.  The Queen of Hearts—always a favorite with me.  I love this vintage queen’s regalness.  She needed lots of gilding.  Demanded it {sweetly}, actually!

And the words of a “Little Prince”—another favorite of mine—that has always influenced the way I see things…

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“It is only with the HEART that one can see rightly”, his author, Antoine de Saint-Exupery so wisely said.  I love those words.  I wrote them here in my journal to help me remember them just a little more often…

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And just a page of being.  I wrote around this lovely china doll as I sat surrounded by my family.  We were just all doing our own things—reading, stitching, drawing…but we were all together.  And that just made my heart feel right.

Wishing you beautiful heart-filled days…

Julie