i twist my wavy hair

feels so good

yesyesyes to all your aliveness!

***

& i want to share with you that

out of increasing self-care & re-distributing where i place

my creative time, i will be changing my posts to once a week.

your encouraging/kind/gorgeous words you share here

with me & others will simply hold double the joy-wow for me.

oh how i thank you each so.

xox!

what running feels like

i began running for the first time last summer/fall

& have stopped for the winter (w/a plan to resume again in spring).

i found running to also be metaphorical/a live journal of sorts.

love to each of your depths. xo

nourish & flourish

i was recently asked if i would draw something

about learning to love ourselves...

& because it seems

we are all in this same soup

together,

i lept forward with

a bounty of !yes!

xox

a candle-lit table

here is a vision that recently whispered itself into my heart

as i spoke of my dream to begin another book...

i am deep sea grateful for such a table.

i will go out of town this weekend

for a bit of solitude & pull up a chair.

i now reach out my heart & hand

to reflect the same affirmation to you...

xox

dream living

i'm participating in the author SARK's dream boogie offering

& this is part of my internal experience along the way.

with love from my dreams to yours. xox

yarn store whispers

whispering in blossoming love you can feel

xox

love is all ya need

isn't a good hug something to savor? extending a dear one out to each of you. xo!

light & loving

(etsy added w/love)

every single beat

xox

dearest hope

i balance on flowers

these just seemed fitting to hold me up.

flower xox love

bath time

real feels

be my real self. love real big. feel my real feelings. speak real & true.

(bracelet from http://wellofcreations.blogspot.com/)

love to YOUR real. xox

fireflies

i was inspired from a dear friend's comment on one of my posts about this!

(lovely jennifer at http://ripplespeak.blogspot.com/!)

love to all your shinings!

story time

i was magnificently gifted with this story

from a friend

& included now is my illustration...

the text reads as follows:

a blue bird came to me this morning.

wake up, wake up was his song.

go away, go away, i don't want to start my day.

but the day is beautiful.

i don't care...

the blue bird kept nagging & begging,

get up, go out, the sun will warm you.

leave me alone...

the blue bird flew away,

up high into the sky.

it came back with a ray from the sun

& laid it on my face.

i got up & went out.

it was a beautiful day...

~

(blue bird love to each of YOU today. xox)

seeing through these eyes

our 12 year old, sam, told me he was thinking about something he knew i'd like but wasn't so sure about telling me. i said pleeeeeeeeease tell me & bribed him with a back scratch.

it worked & i wrote it alongside this drawing.

i made the hair on this illustration curly & full in honor of him...but i still can't help but draw figures mostly in the female form!
love to all you see & hear & are. xo

i can do magic anywhere

our 14 year old son, abe, had really gotten into

magic card tricks

& said this one morning

when he slipped the deck into his robe pocket.

(hmmm ** maybe we all can, maybe we all can).

see anew

sometimes going somewhere else

(in my case recently, northern mn woods)

helps me to see anew

& this began w/the encouragement to

slow down

& look up

& all around me

& always within~
sharing now
such branches
w/you
& love
to what filters through
your eyes.

playing with thread

over our december holiday time away,

tucked in the north woods of mn,

i played with thread & stitched words into my clothes,

like, love finds me...

& free,

& a butterfly even came to visit :)

i'll include a couple photos of these woods soon,
& extend their branches to you.
all w/love. xox