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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...

At Peace

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

Trusting Her

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  Featured image: Trusing Her “I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way—things I had no words for.” — Georgia O’Keeffe

Yourself, an Artist

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  Featured image: Wings To Be Yourself Who I wish to be: An artist. I work hard. I read. I listen. I think. I observe. I trust myself. But does that make me who I wish to be? An artist. I imagine. An artist, for me, sees the invisible, feels the intangible, achieves the impossible, and most importantly, creates originals. But again, I ask myself: Am I that? That which I imagine?

Intersections II

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  Featured image: Intersections II “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” — Thomas Merton

Happy Mother's Day

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  Happy Mother’s Day 💛 Nature has always reminded me of the quiet strength found in motherhood — nurturing, resilient, patient, and endlessly giving. Like the returning seasons or the steady wings of birds in flight, mothers shape the world in ways both gentle and profound. Today I’m thinking with gratitude of all the mothers, grandmothers, artists, caretakers, and women whose love leaves lasting traces in our lives. Wishing you a day filled with beauty, reflection, and love.

The Little Green Bird

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Featured image: The Little Green Bird “Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.” — Henry Van Dyke