I have some fun to share with you on this lovely Thursday afternoon. I have been cooking & baking a lot lately so I wanted to share some yummy photos of my latest endeavours in the land of food with my faithful blog readers. I hope you won't get too hungry!
I have a few things to share with you today, dear readers & I will start with this inspiring video my friend Colie sent me. She said it reminded her of me. That is too kind. Honestly, I wish I could say I was more like Sara in this video. WOW. What an inspiration she is! Lately, I have been seeing & feeling a huge disconnect between what the Bible says & what religious people do to live out their faith (myself included). I have been feeling convicted about not fully living out the words I so deeply believe. I am challenged as of late to wonder, who am I "Jesus" to? Could I be doing more? Who are my orphans & widows? Am I sacrificing myself? It may be the last 2 classes I took for my graduate program, Social Action & Art Therapy & Child Art Therapy with Refugee Children that have sparked this flame. It may be this inspiring church I was a part of this past summer, a church committed to actively living out their faith. Or the many conversations I have with my husband where we question community in America & its huge disconnect between those who have and those who have very little. Whatever it is that's happening in my heart, I like it. I hope the spark turns into a raging flame. And I hope this video inspires you as well.
I am also about to graduate with a degree in Art Therapy. This is exciting. Very exciting. I hope my degree becomes a bridge to help me be an advocate for social action/social justice & transformation. Here is an invitation to our show in Milwaukee & also an image of the exhibitors artwork (I am the letter "S"). I will be exhibiting an installation depicting what I learned as a result of researching sacred space/sanctuary & its relationship to a therapeutic milieu.
A cheery March good morning to you, my friends. Ironically, towards the end of February, Kansas had just gotten the first real snowfall. I traipsed around my front porch and backyard barefoot to document this rare event. Being from Wisconsin, & a lover of winter, I have had a slightly somber winter here in this milder Midwestern land. It has been a winter where I often found myself longing for landscapes covered in blankets of white, for frigid, gusty winds dancing across my face & for crackling warm fires that warm hearts. Instead my husband & I got mild temperatures, rain & a brown world that surrounded us. So, I hung up strings of handmade snowflakes, baked lots of soups from scratch & brought every bit of a Wisconsin winter that was physically possible into our Kansas bungalow. It was a charming winter. A perk I recently discovered however is that it is already spring here, even possibly almost summer. The magnolia trees are blossoming already, a chorus of birds sing me awake each morning & this entire week is going to be blessed with temperatures in the 70's. With suffering comes joy!
On another note, I stumbled across this hilarious guy on Gardenfork, a website & television (YouTube)/radio broadcast that covers everything from making fresh breads, cheeses & eggnog to making your garden grow better. Eric is a quirky, entertaining guy who will be sure to make your mouth drop at least once during the home videos broadcast on YouTube, complete with the perfect combination of Labradors, humor & strangeness. Here is a video to hook you! I hope this day finds you very well. Be in awe of something today.
