Children Know How to Create

Posted on February 6, 2012 by admin

Kimberism: “An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.” Edwin Land

When I taught elementary and high school art classes I made a quick observation. When introducing a project using various shaped recyclable containers and cartons for making intriguing animals, most children didn’t even blink before ideas were popping and animals were coming to life. However, there was one exception. The children that spent their free time in front of the television, computer, or video games, rather than outside creating forts and alternative worlds, struggled with imagining and play. They were unusually self-conscious, stuck in their head and feared making mistakes. Continue reading →

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Is It Dead?

Posted on February 1, 2012 by admin

Kimberism: “Prune-prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually. ” Donald Rumsfeld

“Is it dead?” was the question that popped into my head, somehow acknowledging a similar camaraderie with the bare branches on a sparse looking tree? Then I heard in my spirit, “Its important to know the times and the seasons.”

Years ago my bedroom window overlooked the corner where two streets met. Outside my window I could see the street signs named, Bearmore and Palace. During my widowhood when I looked out the window and saw those signs, instead of dreading a season of what often felt like confinement, I choose to shift my perspective to being tucked away in a palace in preparation for a season of fruitful. Continue reading →

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The Joy of Wind Blown Hair

Posted on January 30, 2012 by admin

Kimberism: “Well behaved women rarely make history.” Laura Thatcher Ulrich

My friend Suzanne shared with me about taking her four year old niece for a ride in her convertible. The curiosity that emerged over a Transformer like car kept her young niece excitedly spouting questions, taking in the azure sky, while her hands waved in roller coaster style. We can learn something from the innocence of childlike wonder.

Imagine if we faced the journey of life with the same childlike excitement over the adventure, put the top down on our cares; let our wind-blown hair sail as we coasted for the ride.

What needs to be adjusted in your perspective to see life as a ride, a game and an adventure? What control do you need to let go of to enjoy the ride today?

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Screaming Under the Underpass

Posted on January 25, 2012 by admin

Kimberism: Every obstacle holds opportunity.

Recently upon my morning walk I discovered a route that takes me under the most wonderful underpass. Normally I wouldn’t have considered this brief part of my trek scenically delightful and could have missing its value. However, I have discovered the most glorious part of my walk is when the traffic blazes through the underpass creating a thunderous noise. It is the perfect opportunity to scream, sing, or shriek at the top of my lungs! Then I continue my enthusiastic theme for the rest of the walk, whatever it may be. This combined with this season of artistic expression create the perfect vehicles to enjoy the scenery of life.

What a delight it is to let all of my pent up emotion come howling out from the depth of my being. My beautiful jaunts, vivid with California vegetation, sunshine, and concrete overpass creates fodder for some of my best ideas, now enhanced with screeching at the top of my lungs under the underpass.

What ways are you finding to scream under your own underpass? I would love to hear how you creatively let off steam and navigate through your own passage ways of life!

 

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My Sofa Reeks of Affluence

Posted on January 23, 2012 by admin

Kimberism: “….prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.” James Allen

It’s easy to look around and measure oneself against others, according to external, monetary and superficial measurements. Yet when we do so, often we know nothing about the person’s inner world that we may have judged incorrectly. We probably make inaccurate judgments about celebrities every time we see them on television without knowing the truth about their lives.

What if we stopped for a moment and moved out of our own insecurities that caused us to grasp for check marks and measured our world by the actual wealth we do possess.  Continue reading →

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