Sculpting Week 18: R&R: Rest and Review Small steps over 18 weeks and I can see a new horizon. I am so grateful to report that other sculptors in our group are also establishing a new way to ‘be’. Our sculpting projects, from historic and current Christian practices, are supported by research in Positive Psychology….
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Sculpting Project Eight: Talking Back: Week 2
Sculpting Project Eight: Talking Back Week 2 Jill B. Taylor, a brain scientist from Harvard, suffered a stroke in a portion of her left hemisphere. Through eight years of healing she recovered the use of the affected brain regions and found her experience to be a Stroke of Insight. The ‘Story Teller’ is the name…
Sculpting Project Eight: Talking Back: Week 1
Sculpting Project Eight: Talking Back: Week 1 I am out working in the fall garden and my mind is far away. It is trying make sense of a troubling situation. It has been trying to make sense of this situation for a number of hours and I am beginning to notice that I am circling…
Sculpting Project Seven: Flash Prayers: Week 2
Sculpting Project Seven: Flash Prayers: Week 2 Time is never my problem. Sculpting Projects don’t take time. OK, a little time, but so little it is barely measurable. The issue for me is not time, it is intention followed by choice. Choosing to sculpt takes grit. Grit: Perseverance and passion for long-term goals. Grit, a…
Sculpting Project Seven: Flash Prayers: Week 1
Sculpting Project Seven: Flash Prayers: Week 1 Macrina is softly snoring as she lays on the shearing table. She wakes from time to time suggesting I should give her another bite of grain and then settles down to rest some more. Shearing is a slow process at my house. I use care and a good…
Sculpting Project Six: The Gift of Breath: Week 2
Sculpting Project Six: The Gift of Breath Week 2 Sneeze, sniff. I sit down to do my Centering Prayer Project. I can’t seem to settle into the quiet of this prayer method. Sniff. Sure, I have a cold but I don’t feel that badly. “Why is Centering Prayer so hard today?” That was the day…
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