Tomorrow’s Dreams Today – My New e-Book!

November 8, 2011

I’m blowing the dust off my Messy Canvas bookshelves today, because I’m adding a brand new e-Book that has been a LONG time coming!
I wrote it a year and a half ago, and as I spent the last couple of weeks editing it and designing it, I was excited about how relevant it is to [...]

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Craving Paradox – Watching Fight Club

October 29, 2011

“Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t [...]

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Passing Notes (#SecretMessages)

October 27, 2011

The interesting thing about art is we all go to it with our own individual angle, regardless of what the artist originally intended. We’re looking for something, based on where life has us, and we’re searching for #SecretMessages to feed into that exploration.
Right now I’m searching for artists that speak to the darkness we can [...]

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“Eclipsed by Glory”

October 25, 2011

“You will grow in freedom. To be inside and outside all kinds of systems and to move freely between and among them.”
- The Shack
“Every student should put down in some form or other his findings. All any man can hope to do is to add his fragment to the whole. No man can be [...]

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Getting Involved Is Messy (Creating From the Tension)

October 24, 2011

I’ve decided getting involved is MESSY. And even though I’m edging into my word for 2012 already, I’m trying to accept that there are still MESSY things I have to learn.
I remember being in my college journalism classes and hating the required homework of reading news articles. I didn’t understand most of what I was [...]

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Today I’m Going to Start Living As An Artist

October 20, 2011

*I took this prompt from The Artist’s Rule, a powerful book my good friend Teresa got me.

Today I’m Going to Start Living As An Artist…
1. I’m going to listen with my senses.
2. I’m going to take slow, free steps so the Muse has opportunity to guide.
3. I’m going to own my decisions with Grace and [...]

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What Does Your Husband Think?

October 17, 2011

I suppose I think of faith as a pretty personal thing. Something that an individual must own and work out for themselves, an internal pilgrimage that incorporates attempted communication and interaction with God. And really, I like it that way. Solitary, mysterious, secretive, exciting.
That is why when people have asked me, “What does your husband [...]

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Deeper Story Post: Re-Entering Silence

October 13, 2011

The following is a post I wrote for the Deeper Story Blog:

I took a trip alone on an airplane across several states. I love the adventure of that. I love the aimless wandering of a solo agenda. What I didn’t love was the deafening silence of being alone with me.
There is a nausea [...]

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On Traveling

October 5, 2011

Traveling is a fool’s paradise. We owe to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friend, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and [...]

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Twirling Through A Thunderstorm

September 22, 2011

“Faith is the aftermath of God.”
- Peter Rollins

I woke up with a horrible dream this morning at 2:30 AM. Wide-awake I walked downstairs, poured myself a glass of cold water and sat drinking it with wide blinking eyes. What if all my worst dreams did come true? What if [...]

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