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Reflection + planning<\/h3>\n
\"Winter<\/a>

Winter\u00a0Reflection<\/p><\/div>\n

Reflection and planning time. Quiet, contemplative, restorative rewinding time. This is when my list gets really long. Oh the ideas that fill an\u00a0imaginative\u00a0mind. I\u00a0think I’m\u00a0invincible, and able to make time stand still . . . while I\u00a0start one more project, learn one more technique.<\/p>\n

\"Desert<\/a>

January Desert<\/p><\/div>\n

Painting, ceramics, new fusing techniques?<\/h3>\n

Maybe it will be the new paint colors that bounce off the desert. (I have watercolor paper just waiting to be salt washed.) Or should I try\u00a0my hand at pottery? I loved ceramics in High Scool and that would surely\u00a0bring those textures\u00a0to life.<\/p>\n

There’s a class online for fused glass Mandala jewelry. It’s very detail oriented. (Detail is the thing that\u00a0gets me into so much trouble when I create my stained glass patterns. Think “tiny hummingbird beaks made of\u00a0glass- surrounded by lead” . . . so frustrating)! Oh but I love detail and its meditative quality.<\/p>\n

Life is short. What if that new thing is the one that takes my breath away and releases my dreams and ideas in one single expression?<\/p>\n

Stay the course-<\/h3>\n

But life IS short, and time goes on, and I will never be able to learn or make everything I’m curious about and see in my minds eye. There’s dishes to wash and animals to care for, papers to file and weeds to pull.<\/p>\n

\"Stained<\/a>

Rondel Window<\/p><\/div>\n

Come back to earth now girl. Look at the projects on the table. They’re lovely and interesting, challenging and inspiring. One thing at a time. Patience . . . those ideas won’t run away . . . hopefully. And if they do there’ll be a thousand new ones to replace them. Maybe they were made for Heaven, it’s timeless there.<\/p>\n

Do you start the new year with a thousand new plans? Or are you content to let your dreams remain dreams, and just let life unfold? Have you figured out how to keep life somewhere in the middle? I wish you’d share with me in the comments below.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Keep dreaming.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks for reading,<\/strong><\/p>\n

julie<\/strong><\/p>\n

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