In the Corners

Corners are tiny little places.  Sometimes we don’t even notice them…but great and good things can happen in small places…

 

…the corners of the home, where there is peace, where there is love.  It makes a difference in the lives of all that live there.

Hope that grows in the tiny corners of the heart.  It makes you strong—it gives you joy—but it happens quietly in those tiny corners…

Doing good for others in the corners of the world in which you live.  You may not think it’s doing any good for the world at large, but trust me, it is.

Thank-you for doing good in your tiny corners…..I feel it.

Julie

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Journal Love

I love art journaling—no surprise to you, I realize!  There’s something so satisfying about the assembling of a page—just having fun—with no idea, most of the time, what it’s ultimate purpose will be…

I love using vintage ladies and antique china dolls to illustrate my thoughts.  I don’t know why—they just make me happy.  I’ll often hold up a page to my daughters and ask, “What does she want to say?”  Sometimes I just already know…

 

Using old book pages is so very wonderful.  The texture, the type, the way the paper absorbs your ink—everything about it is different from modern paper…and I love it.

The using of wise words found in the writings of others that have gone before me makes me happy.  As I look through my completed journals, their words remind me of things that were important to me that particular day—things that I know I need to improve on in my life…

We all need little reminders as we go throughout our days, don’t we?!

Keeping these journals helps me to do just that…

…while enjoying a happy, inky, gluey, painty mess all at the same time!

{luminously beautiful portrait of the young Queen Victoria}

See you soon with something new.

Julie

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Being Better

What if you realized you didn’t have become perfect all at once?  With one monumental leap?  Today or tomorrow?

What if we all came to realize that the pathway to being a better person came step by step?  Choice by choice—kind act by kind act?

What if we all realized that the only person we should compete with…is ourselves?  Would that change the way we did things?

Little by little.  Step by step.  Decision by decision.  Until, at last, we realize that we have become—slowly, day by day--more like the person we really want to be. 

Julie

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