As the old saying goes, If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll wind up someplace else! Sometimes, even when you think you know where you’re going, you wind up someplace else. At least that’s been my experience!
I began my adult-ing adventure as a struggling single mom, well informed on what I did not want more of!
Over the next 10 years I learned my way from an R.N. and on to Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry degrees from Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA.
I served the Presbyterian Church (USA) for 25 years as a pastor and pastoral counselor, as well as editor for Monday Morning magazine and special to Presbyterian News Service.
Much of my pastoral work has been with couples and families. I’ve been a certified leader for the Developing Capable People program for more than 30 years and have mastery level training in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy and Neuro-linguistic Programming. Little did I know… I was filling my medicine basket!
Eventually, I wound up needing to learn to be a contemplative. Years of orthopedic challenges demanded that I learn to be still, to embrace—or be devoured by—change. Creating became my work in the world.
Words, first, because that was what I knew and believed I could do!
In 2015, I released two #1 Bestsellers, Grandmothers Are In Charge Of Hope and WE GATHER TOGETHER…holiday feasts with the family you have!
I’m also honored to be part of an anthology project called Breathing Words…a year of writing together which became an Amazon bestseller in September of 2017, which was, curiously, the same time I began painting!
In July of 2023, an anthology project titled turning point, volume 2 was published as an Amazon #1 bestseller. I’m honored to be a featured author with a chapter called Creating a Map of Reality! and to have my Intentional Creativity® Insight painting, She Takes Her Place Among the Matriarchs, selected for the cover art.
While my original art form will always be words, I followed a suggestion from my friend, Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy (aka SARK) which led to a surprising encounter with Shiloh Sophia McCloud and the world of Intentional Creativity®
Now for the big news!!! It turns out that when I write and paint, both, new things are possible! Like..
aka… my new children’s book!!!
My Fiercely Compassionate Grandmother’s heart has called me to tell this old, old story again, with words and images in this moment… Our Littles – all of them – need it, still, in this world battling over whose voices matter, if they are to learn that their voices matter! Perhaps, we Bigs need it, too!
And, yes… there are more children’s books in various phases of gestation! (And another for adults!)
In the meantime, I’m grateful to be living my dream of guiding others to claim their SuperPowers and use them for good in this world, now.
Much of that work includes art supplies and red thread.
Welcome to the path!