Another 5-minute Friday exercise from Lisa-Jo: get it here… Go. Not all glues are created equal. The beauty of Elmer’s glue is that it creates a strong, semi-flexible bond. I rarely use it anymore and I hardly remember what I used it for all those years it sat in my desk next to the pencils and erasers and crayons. But
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i used to hate getting dirty. You too? I mean, all kids love playing in mud and will put all sorts of disgusting in their mouths. I had that too. But a larger part of me hated messes. I always thought cleaning up was the best part of play time. In kindergarten, while the other kids squished finger paints and
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The Art of Helping Others by Douglas Mann is subtitled How Artists Can Serve God and Love the World. And it aims to show just that in 3 short parts of 3 chapters each forming a kind of manifesto for artists and creatives who have dreamed of doing something more meaningful, inspiring and exhilarating than leaving the world the way
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Getting over my resistance to love has been a process of fits of starts. I hated the idea of love for a long time. What made it worse, I didn’t want to get over my cynicism. But nearly 14 years into our marriage, every Valentine’s Day, Sheri and I always remind each other of a phrase we came up with early in
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