The Artful Journey

Now is the perfect time for Love

I’ve been writing short articles on the Artful Journey themes (aka Mood Lady themes) for years now. Last year, I wrote one each week for 49 weeks. I made myself a schedule of themes and followed it pretty well, unless some theme was simply a mis-match for that week.

A Story of Love

She knows love comes in many forms.

She feels grateful that she feels that it is fully present in her life in so many of these forms.

There have been times when this hasn’t been the case, but now, she feels truly full — truly full of receiving love…

The Gift of Presence

Presence is a beautiful gift.

A Story of Presence

She knew soon after she let herself into the comfortable apartment that Birgitta was having a bad day.

Birgitta was usually upbeat and cheerful, but today her mood seemed dark.

What does Personal Power mean for you?

I listened to the news and sighed. My body felt heavy. My heart hurt.

I recognized the need to listen to the details — to hear the personal stories and to cry alongside everyone affected.

A Story of Personal Power

She used to have very different thoughts about Power than she does now.

Whenever she heard the word before, she felt a little tightness — especially in her throat. Visions of people over-stepping and taking action at the cost of others were what she…

A Story of Discernment: Are your choices depleting or energizing you?

Before she started using the tool of Discernment, she was often depleted.

It was almost like she had a little voice in her head that was constantly spewing about what she ‘should’ do…

Whose Version of Success Are You Living?

I can remember when I first realized that Success was something I could define for myself.

Until that time, which happened to be in my 40s, I had always been living some other version — one I’d heard others talk about. One I’d seen…

A Story of Success

She waited as long as she could, and then she called her mother.

With the time difference, she had to wait until afternoon and by then, her mind had made up all kinds of stories about how horrible this situation was.