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From the Editor’s Desk: I Can Move Differently

  Dear Glow Girls, It’s been a while since the last issue.  Right now, as I write this, it’s 12:24 am and I just finished decorating 17 notebooks and fulfilling another big order.  I posted 16 notebooks yesterday and one regular client bought them all.  There goes my inventory.  But I’m very grateful. In fact, thank you. More please.  And Lady Flo also arrived. So, yeah.  I’m sure you can imagine how that’s going for me.  I was swamped with orders one after another at the atelier. There was no breathing room.  And then I was commissioned to work on a book project that will last 18 months. So that’s an ongoing thing.  And now, I’m preparing for a bazaar and of course, Christmas! As I wrote this issue, I was also experiencing and choosing gentle healing  in many areas of my life. You’ve read about some of them in this issue.  For many years, I thought of healing as only physical health. But now I am profoundly aware of not only m...

From the Editor’s Desk: What Makes Me Feel Alive

  Dear Glow Girls, Thank you for being on this journey with me starting with  Issue 01: Background Noise Issue 02: Beautiful Things And now we’re here, Issue 03: Fun & Flirty. The past few months have been an emotional journey for me.  It still is.  After being treated like background noise, discovering beautiful things again, I now ask this question - What makes me feel alive again? For the past two months, it’s painting.  I’ve always been an artist, but painting is different.  I’ve dabbled with jewelry design and making and other forms of art, but I’ve never considered myself a brush artist.  My son is.  And I remember watching him during his painting lessons and wishing I could hold the brush, too. It took many years to find the courage to hold a brush.  I didn’t know why.  I still don’t know why I was so scared to just paint.  Today, I can produce 4 paintings in one afternoon.  And I find pleasure in admiring my work af...