to remember

It is never too late to be what you might have been. – George Eliot

to see beauty

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

each day

When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky — Buddha

Oliver Jeffers

A Quantum of Physics from Gestalten. A lovely video feature on artist and illustrator, Oliver Jeffers.

maira kalman on creative mornings

Alive. Happy and Sad. Hopeful and Hopeless. We are Alive and that is what is important. 2012/10 Maira Kalman from CreativeMornings on Vimeo.

lost?

Not till we are lost…do we begin to find ourselves. -Henry David Thoreau

Jarrett J. Krosoczka on imagination

A heart warming and funny talk by author-illustrator, Jarrett J. Krosoczka about how imagination and art saved his life.

Dare.

mixed media drawing

make it your own

You will have to experiment and try things out for yourself and you will not be sure of what you are doing. That’s all right, you are feeling your way into the thing.… Continue reading →

right here

lost in living

the intersection of art and motherhood

The ‘Busy’ Trap

“Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental… Continue reading →