Carol Wiebe

. Some people love to moan and groan about how the old ways (i.e.the BEST ways) are fading away. Others are always waiting for something BETTER to come along, seldom enjoying what they have because it isn’t good enough. We are alive NOW ~ not in some dimly remembered past, or postulated future. Living in the past or putting all your attention on the future makes the present, for all intents and purposes, disappear. Don’t be a ghost in your own life. Disappearing Act I’ve come

When an event or person comes at you, out of the blue, you have two basic choices. Accept, or throw a tantrum. Rejection isn’t usually in the cards ~ what’s happened has already happened. And all a tantrum (or non-acceptance) accomplishes is to make the first experience with this new reality a negative one. What’s the point of that? Out of the Blue I am not advocating a passive approach to life: we always have the option to form dreams and intentions. But if I have been dilig

Somehow, I have become quite relaxed about this new “career” of mine, making art. I have decided it will not be anything like my other careers, where I labored hard and long to acquire the credentials and secure the positions I believed I needed. In all these positions I have had bosses to obey, co-workers to co-operate with, work to take home that ate away at off time, and a varied assortment of stresses that I simply considered part of  “the game.” In fact, I have not quite

Elena Ray calls her daily work grace, because it keeps her “centered for the purpose she serves.” Her work is a grace to others as well ~ certainly to me. Her exploration of sacred symbolism is created with an elegant hand, and her intelligence is ample. She may be somewhat apostate when she makes a statement such as: The finger pointing at the moon is not the moon, though the elegant hand and the intelligence that animates it may actually be as important as the moon; and in

A few months ago I decided that I wouldn’t blog anymore until I figured out how to use WordPress properly. Well, I put tabs in a binder and began making categories, and that’s about as far as I got. It took this long to realize that it wasn’t WordPress that was the problem–they have a pretty decent help section. It was my own tendency to think I had to have everything perfectly prepared, arranged, worked out, WHATEVER, before I could actually move forward in a substantial way