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  The Tulip Collection has been forming and I am taken with the tulips. This happens every Spring, but this year more than ever. It’s amazing what happens when you really stop to look at something. Carefully. Study it even. Maybe I have been looking at them for a lifetime? Over the past several months […]

IN THE STUDIO | The Tulip Collection

It’s been hard. It’s been wonderful. It has been sad and fine and lots of things that words can’t even describe. This time is so hard for so many reasons. Recently when chatting with a friend she said this to me, “It’s so hard, Sarah” and I thought, yes. That is just it. It is […]

ESSAYS | Love in the Time of Covid-19 – vol 2

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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. 

John Muir

It is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world.

Mary Oliver

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What's inspiring me lately: Open meadows. Wise old trees. Rivers and lakes. Springtime flowers. The sound of the ocean. Undiscovered paths.

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