introducing 'waste not wednesday 's ...

“The environment is where we all meet; 

where we all have a mutual interest; 

it is the one thing all of us share.”

-Lady Bird Johnson

I am not sure if it because of our current environment-hating administration or the amount of pollution and waste that I see on a daily basis, but I feel like we all need to take more steps to ensure the health and future of Mother Earth. There are so many big and little actions that each of us can take to improve our environment now and for generations to come.  So I am planning to post on this blog, eco-friendly quotes, and ideas on Wednesdays.

let's be better stewards of mother earth!
love, mom

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day73: stand up for diversity

It is time for parents to teach 

young people early on 

that in diversity there is beauty and 

there is strength. 

Maya Angelou

In case I have not made myself clear as a parent ...

'there is beauty and there is strength' in DIVERSITY!!

I have said this before and I am going to say it again, 

embrace diversity.

This message is even more critical with the new 

political landscape of our country and the world, 

diversity is under attack.  

Now more than ever before parents, teachers, mentors, peers, need to stand up and protect diversity. This means being extra aware of language and actions that might belittle or threaten others.

In the days since the election I have been reading the wise words of Martin Luther King, Jr.  So many of his quotes apply to our current state of affairs, yet this quote now breaks my heart.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

This is my dream too, that no child will be judged by gender, skin color, religious beliefs and/or sexual preference. On election day we took a major step backwards from this goal, the election results have validated some seriously bad behavior and rhetoric which MUST be stopped.

We need to be vigilant that all people are treated with dignity and respect.

love, mom

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today let us be bodacious enough ...

“We need the courage to create ourselves daily, to be bodacious enough to create ourselves daily — as Christians, as Jews, as Muslims, as thinking, caring, laughing, loving human beings. I think that the courage to confront evil and turn it by dint of will into something applicable to the development of our evolution, individually and collectively, is exciting, honorable.”   Maya Angelou

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today, may we have faith is the process . . . .

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

We are quite naturally impatient in everything

to reach the end without delay.

We should like to skip the intermediate stages.

We are impatient of being on the way to something

unknown, something new.

And yet it is the law of all progress

that it is made by passing through

some stages of instability—

and that it may take a very long time.

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

a perfect quote for me, 

as I am determined to finish

this mural, ASAP ~ 

a tree of life for the 

Common Street Spiritual Center, Natick.

I am so loving painting/creating this tree 

but it needs to be done!!!

and my process for these paintings

 is thoroughly organic, intuitive, 

so it is very hard to finish . . .

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Today we can do anything!!!!

'yearning . . . ' #fromthelandofdragons

 When the sun is shining 

I can do anything; 

no mountain is too high, 

no trouble too difficult to overcome.

Wilma Rudolph

how it looked when i left my studio last night . . . 

this is a perfect quote for me, today, as the sun is FINALLY shining here!!! 

it has been on quite the sabbatical!!!!

AND 

I am on a mission to finish my mural for the Common Street Community Church ASAP!!!

 not that it is a 'trouble', just taking a LOT longer than either I or the client expected

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