Wednesday, August 31, 2005

The Artist's Way

My copy of this book by Julia Cameron finally showed up at the library today - we're doing a discussion group on it in the forum at scrapartist.com. I started reading it tonight and WOW! I am a firm believer that our creative energy flows from God - the ultimate creative genius, so I love that she makes that connection. I'm really excited to get into this further, but it's getting late, so it'll have to wait until tomorrow.

In the meantime a quote from the introduction, somewhat off topic for the book, but ever so true - particularly in the world today . . . "Nothing dies harder than a bad idea." Ain't that the truth.

Strange Changes . . .

Okay, so after about ten different versions - I have settled on this layout for the moment - the original dots were just a little too much LOL. I'm never going to get any work done now because I'll just be obsessively changing my blog layout to make use of all the cool templates out there!

Edited to add: see I changed again! Love this one though :)

So sad . . .

I am overwhelmed by the tragedy on the gulf coast - the damage and loss there is just unbelievable. I feel so helpless in the face of it - I want to jump in my car and bring people water and food or take some of them home with me for a while so they have a place to stay. But, that's impossible so I'm giving to those who can go to help and praying for everyone there fervently.

I'm also amazed at how something like this brings out the best and the worst in people. I see looters on the news, but at the same time I've seen incredible outpourings of generosity too. At the Pub on 2Peas people are making plans to help a Pubster stranded down there and all over I am seeing efforts small and large being made to help. At the Digichick our designers are making a kit as a fundraiser - be sure to watch for it - it's a great way to help. I've also added links for giving to the Red Cross and CRWRC (my favorite charity) in the "Make a Difference" section of my links.

This is me - jumping on the bandwagon!

Okay, so I'm jumping on the bandwagon. I have kept lots of journals over the years and generally find the process cathartic, so this seems like a natural extension. I'll talk scrapbooking, law, religion and politics - let's all just hope that I can keep my ranting to a minimum!