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The Woodpecker

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  Featured image: Study of Rose Breasted Woodpecker The woodpecker keeps tap tap tapping. Listening to the rat-a-tat-tat in the distance and the gentle chirp close by, it’s nice to have my coffee outside once again and listen to the woods waking up in the morning. Green stubbles are sprouting in the gardens, bringing such joy. The deer didn’t get my daffodils this year, and specks of yellow are sprinkled about the garden borders. Everything will sprout up quickly, and soon those swelling buds will shed their soft shells, and the woods will be filled with luscious spring greens and their transparent colors will be everywhere. Every critter seems to be pairing up. The woodpecker keeps tap tap tapping.
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From Heart to Hand

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  Featured image: Imagination “In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Spring Arriving

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  Featured image: It's A Beautiful Morning Isn’t it glorious watching and listening to spring arrive, not only in our hearts but also in actually watching Mother Earth come alive. Wonderful, wonderful Mother Earth. Red buds, like the flowers that come first before the leaves on the oak trees. Spring green ferns uncurling, stretching like a small baby waking from a nap. Birch trees adding that lime green that can’t be called anything but lime green, so translucent with zigzag edges. All things in the woods are dancing with the gentle breeze and basking in the warmth of the spring sun and blue, blue sky. Isn’t it glorious watching and listening to spring arrive.
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When Freedom Comes

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  Featured image: Spot of Red Freedom comes when you adapt to change. It begins by getting used to the very idea of change. Change is discovery. Change is growth. Change is exciting when you release the past and embrace whatever comes your way.” — Peggy Magovern
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Art is Never Finished

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  Featured image: Celebrate Innovation "Art is never finished, only abandoned" - Leonardo da Vinci
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How Do We Measure Our Soul?

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  Featured image: Your Inner Compass How do we measure our soul? Is it with a tape measure, a scale, weights? How do we measure our soul? The Bible, the Koran, other holy books? How do we measure right from wrong—good and bad? How do we measure our soul? We can’t see our soul to measure it. And we really don’t know what our soul is—or what it looks like—do we? Just what is a soul? For me… my soul is the glue that holds me together… it is my spirit. “Now I lay me down to sleep; I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.” Those were the words from the first prayer I ever learned to pray to God when my mom and dad tucked me in at night. I learned the word soul even before I understood what it meant. What is my soul? It is the glue that holds me together. It is the precious thing that is just mine. Can it be measured? Mine can’t. AI’s overview states: “The soul is generally defined as the immaterial essence, consciousness, or an...
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At Peace

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  Featured image: At Peace “A work of art is a declaration of freedom.” — Oskar Schlemmer
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