…and a Happy, Creative New Year to all!

I love this photo of the giant origami lips. One of my independent study art students made these a couple of weeks before Christmas when locker decorating was going on in the halls, and she hung them on her friend’s locker door. I followed her up there and snapped this photo [...]

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A Blessed Christmas to Family and Friends. . . .

God did not
send Christ
to us;
God came
to us
in Christ.

~Don Skinner

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Visual Journaling – worth the effort

My experience with visual journaling was born out of my combined interests of natural things and homeschooling. When my children were small and I was trying to find a way to teach them so that what we learned in science was both interesting and memorable, I read about nature journaling in a book by Charlotte [...]

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Adding to the Beauty

I just got Sara Groves new cd, “Add to the Beauty,” and have been enjoying it very much. She says she wanted to do her next cd (this one) about the Kingdom of God. “Now more than ever the only thing that could rival my despair at the pain in the [...]

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God intrudes

Another favorite quote for Christmas meditation:Despite our efforts to keep him out, God intrudes. The life of Jesus is bracketed by two impossibilities: a virgin’s womb and an empty tomb. Jesus entered our world through a door marked “No Entrance” and left through a door marked “No Exit.”–Peter Larson, Prism (Jan/Feb 2001)Also, [...]

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Even the angels long to look into these things. . .

Do you want to see the humility of God? Look in the manger and see Him lying there. Surely this is our God. Seeing an infant, I wonder how this could be the one who says, “Do not I fill heaven and earth?” I see a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes. [...]

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We loved Seattle — even in the rain

We adored Seattle. In fact, we haven’t enjoyed a city together that much since. . . well, EVER! Here we are in a downtown Starbucks at the end of our week-long trip, just before departing for the airport. On this day we toured downtown and saw a couple of wonderful art galleries where we [...]

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Me and my rebel

Never thought anyone would ever hear me say I love digital; and no, I don’t love it as much as film cameras and the b&w wet lab, but it’s fast, it’s clean, it’s getting better and more affordable. So now, my rebel and I go everywhere together. 

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