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Above is a poem I wrote during a poetry challenge where I wrote 108 poems in a month for a fundraiser.

It was a difficult and incredible experience. Because I had to do so many to do, I couldn’t wait for inspiration and I had to let out whatever was inside of me. It was cathartic.

I was going through a break up at the time. I could express all of my emotions and I felt better.

So I’m doing it again and you’re invited to join me this time! November 13th – 27th you’ll create 50 pieces of art in 14 days.

Continue reading “#ArtLetsThingsOut Challenge”

These days there are a 1000 messages coming at you about all the things you should be doing better.

You should be:

– Meditating twice a day
– Doing yoga and exercise
– Eating healthy
– Getting rid of old stuff
– Getting out of debt
– Investing your money effectively
– Colour coordinating your sock drawer
– Learn to love yourself

Continue reading “Experts say you should meditate more, but you should do THIS instead”

Last weekend, I was doing some readings for school and came across this passage,

Take a spiritually underdeveloped person, for example, a criminal. Such a person will use self-will in a very obvious way to serve his immediate seeming advantages, disregarding all laws—spiritual as well as human.

And I felt my blood begin to boil.

Continue reading “Why you need to stop using the word criminal…”

Jenny sat at the back of the bus, her nose buried in her Nancy Drew book. She was a bit of an ackward kid and didn’t fit in with the other girls. She liked to play while rough while they pretended to bake and played with dolls.

She loved this book and was reading furiously. A young woman in the book was taken hostage and suddenly Jenny thought, “What if that happened to me?” She looked over her shoulder and stared at the car behind the bus craning her neck to get a look at the driver. It was a woman in frumpy dress and pearl. “Not someone who would take a hostage,” Jenny thought..

She looked around at the other kids on the bus and thought, “These guys wouldn’t have a clue about how to take a hostage.” But then the bus driver, Sam, caught her eye. He was wearing jeans and a plaid shirt. He had a moustache. This was the kind of guy that could take a hostage…

Continue reading “What Strengths were You Born with?”