Inspirations 2011

Wisdom speaks in ink

and paper whispers stories.

Hearts can meet in books.

Haiku My Heart is dedicated

this week to three books

that have spoken to my heart,

opened my mind

to possibilities that I had not known

were waiting there.

"Standing at the Water's Edge" by Anne Paris

is dedicated to helping creative folk past their

blocks and heartaches.

Anne is a PhD

and has focused a good part of her life

on learning how to help us open

to the great spirit driven creativity

that lives like a flickering candle flame within us all,

then instructs us how to take that tiny candle flame into a full burning light

that can be found whenever

we need to.

I highly recommend her book.

Next is

"The Artist's Path"

by Christine Valters Paintner

also a PhD

who has created a similar work, but with more

spiritual a focus,

giving us twelve chapters of lectio divinia,

inspirational stories

and spiritual openings for our creative soul.

Christine is part of a Benedictine community,

living out in the world,

and sharing her God given inspirations in

a way that enchants and opens.

Last is "Alla Prima"

by Richard Schmid,

who is not a PhD, but is a master painter,

who has taken the time

to share a lifetime of painting wisdom.

Hands on, this book is.

I am inspired not only by his words of wisdom, but by his wonderful

brushwork and simple colors.

These three have been my inspirational

reading for 2011

and are providing a path for me

into 2012. I hope you find them as

wonderful as I do.

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Rebecca is also a giver of heart wings

and spirit flights.

don't miss her or the other members of

 Haiku my heart.