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What a character
These days, as research for my own novels, I've been reading a lot of middle-grade novels (ages 8-12). The novels are just right for summer, where I spend a lot of time at the beach making art wherever I can. With these books I can dive right back into stories and times I remember from the olden days, when I was that age.
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Grateful for flat things--yesterday
Flat things are not often singled out for gratitude. But in the Joy Dare, we were urged yesterday to single out 3 flat things to be happy about ( Read more... ) -
Taking the Joy Dare, starting now
Has everyone else heard of the Joy Dare? Where you're urged to come up with 3 photographs or poems or tiny journal entries per day, according to the prompts in the Joy Dare, to find and express gratitude for 3 gifts a day? Sometimes the gifts can seem ironic, dark, even horrifying, and that's part of the overall plan: See everything as a gift, not ( Read more... )
