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artful living

Time To Make Something

by Nancy VanReece on February 17, 2010

I believe that all people are made to be creative individuals. Living An Artful Life has everything to do with finding ways each day to make something new.  It may be changing a recipe or finding a new one to put your own twist on.  The one new thing may be a doodle sketch to watercolor. You may write, you may blog; you may even tend to a plant or two, or a full garden.  If you find yourself feeling uncreative, change your situation.  Wonderful things only happen when people find a way, find that path, to create.

My trajectory has changed. Life has changed. I’m going to stop trying to get back what worked before and make something new. I’m middle-aged. It snuck up on me.  According to the marketers, I am supposed to have a retirement plan and a kid in college. I have neither.   What I do have is a renaissance mind, something that longs to create new things often.

The surveys all say that as a baby boomer, I may be slower to embrace change than the generation(s) now starting out.  For the record: change makes me tired but I still like it, heck I embrace it!

Something new is about to happen. It’s time to make something.

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Facilitating Community

September 10, 2009

Is everyone around you evaluating something of high importance? It seems that way to me. The non profit sector is evaluating mission statements and services to be sure they are meeting real need and not duplicating the work of others. The for profit sector is evaluating if the product they provide is something people actually [...]

The Pride Portraits

June 1, 2009

The month of June marks a special pride month as it is the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969 at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. They [...]

The Poet's Daffodil

April 24, 2009

The Poet’s DaffodilNarcissus poeticus recurvus this blooms in late spring before the iris here in Nashville and I adore them Nancy VanReece’s Facebook profile

Time keeps on slippin

January 25, 2009

Watercolor Postcard of the Day 1.25.09 – Part of a 50 day series of playful watercolors I wish I could get to Tulsa to see my friends, I wish I could go to Colorado for the Creating Change Conference. I wish I could spend 3 weeks in New Mexico painting. I wish I could get [...]

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