Final Post of 2014

This blog was born in June 2014 with the sole intention of sharing my [he]art with people beyond my family, classmates, and close circle of friends. I had neither strategy nor goal for building an audience, and no clear cut plan for periodic posts. This thing just happened. Surprisingly, it's been a much easier, non-stressful, inspiring and sweetly challenging experience than I thought. Thanks, Linda Joy Burke, for staying in my ear about blogging.  

I especially like writing without laboring over what I will say. That is SO bleeping liberating - just show up, be authentic, really care, and allow the outflow.

That's how my pillow books and annual journals have evolved. I meet the blank page like a foreign country I've never visited before. And to that mystical, new terrain, I bring whatever I can glue/tape/affix/press to the page - strings of pearl, trains of thought, bits and pieces of this and that, ideas in flight, energy in motion - and then watch the magic happen. What a life.

Thanks to everyone who follows and has tuned into this blog. Your energy, your love and encouragement feed my soul and fuel me to keep going. 

 I wish you and your family the happiest of new years. Mbele Ashe!

Colorism

I was messing around in MWord one day--of all places--with photo enhancing tools and stumbled on this effect, which worked for the flyer I was creating. Like love, images sometimes come from the most unexpected places.