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It has been my goal for a while to be named one of Liz Strauss’ Successful and Outstanding Bloggers, to be honored with an “S&OB” display badge.
That goal was realized this past week. Thank you, Liz.
I first found Liz’ blog through Bean Fairbanks, my blogging-studio mentor at LVSonline. Bean suggested when I got a bit [...]
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Yesterday Liz Strauss, in a step toward visible authenticity, threw away some stuff. She wrote:
Old habits stay with us longer than we need them.
Old thoughts that once protected fence us in…
Being too safe can be risky.
Knowing too much can get in the way of learning…
… I had to throw away the old jeans to understand [...]
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How Does Someone Connect With What I Say? Or Write? Or Paint?
I’m learning how to use less detail in areas of my portraits outside a small focal area.
I’m learning to look at things straight-on and, while not moving my eyes, think about how I see the periphery. Certainly it’s not detailed. Important to the overall [...]
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“We all live best in our own imaginations.” I read that this morning in a novel.
I wondered how often I live there — in my imagination. While I’m driving, or in the shower, or out on the exercise trail. And is it a good thing?
I imagine brilliant conversations with others — in my mind, by [...]
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Why would anyone come to read my blog Over Coffee? Or any blog for that matter?
The question was the first in my blogging class homework assignment, and it has kept me wondering for the past two weeks. Why indeed?
Why read my blog? For the same reasons I read those similar to mine, I suppose. I [...]
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It smells like the beginning of fall — you know, that smell of half-summer, half fall. Oh, I can’t explain it… but it’s nice. It smells like something new is coming…
So said my twenty-year-old granddaughter Lyssa, as she opened the door to the morning on the way to her college classes for the day. [...]
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My friend The Purple Owl says:
Getting creative ideas is not something you do.
It’s something you allow to happen.
My best ideas for solutions often come with time; they rarely present themselves immediately.
For instance, in Chris Price’s Painter Lab at the Digital Art Academy, the first week’s assignment this fall was to paint bold.
What is my [...]
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How Do You Handle Hurtful Remarks?
by Barbara Hartsook on January 12, 2010 · 19 comments
It’s universal you know… thinking whatever offensive, hurtful remark gets thrown at us is because of us. It isn’t always…
Liz Strauss says to distance ourselves from the event. Her points are excellent — think, think, realize, decide, and think some more. Read the point specifics on her blog…
I’d add this: Realize the offensive comment is [...]
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