Art

Containers 3, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Art makes it hard to ignore truth.

Anne Lamott,

Help, Thanks, Wow

Grace

DSC_4219, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


I do not at all understand the mystery of grace –
only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us
where it found us. 

Anne Lamott

Hope

A matter of time, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

When hope is not pinned

wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation,

it sometimes floats forth and opens.

Anne Lamott, Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

Writing & Reading

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.

Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Painting portraits

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

There is still something to be said for painting portraits of the people we have loved, for trying to express those moments that seem so inexpressibly beautiful, the ones that change us and deepen us.

Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life