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Calligraphy can be so useful!
Calligraphy can be so useful! I made this just for me, but then thought someone else might get something from it, LOL. **** If you enjoyed my absurd …um, I guess it qualifies as a picture poem (it was … Continue reading →
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Tagged @outlawbunny, art, blog, book, calligraphy, creativity, Francesca De Grandis, humor, madness, meditation, methods, ornamentation, outlaw bunny, picture, poem, rants, self-expression, self-help, Share My Insanity
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See Beauty, Express Beauty, Adorn the Cosmos
I calligraphed today’s blog. Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Writing, and Music, Community, Spirit, The Whole Thing
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Tagged anarchy, art, beauty, blog, book, calligraph class, Calligraphed, calligraphy, Celtic knot work, chaos, connections, connectivity, creativity, Francesca De Grandis, inner, madness, meditation, methods, musings, mystic, mysticism, ornamentation, poetry, prose, Share My Insanity, subconscious, Third Road
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Share My Insanity—Reviews
Midwest Book Review gave Share My Insanity a big thumbs up: “an inclusive call to improve one’s own life with its unique brand of humor, very much recommended.” Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Writing, and Music, Classes, Books, and Other News, Community, Spirit, The Whole Thing
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Tagged book, books, connectivity, creative ideas, ecstatic path, Francesca De Grandis, heal, healing, humor, Mari Powers, mystic, Paul B Rucker, self-help, Share My Insanity, spiritual, unitarian univer
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A Rant about Whether Humanity Has Evolved At All
Did ancient Romans eat popcorn? Continue reading →
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Tagged ability, accusations, ads, alternative, ancient, argument, assassinate, attention, belief, better, big-business, book, brutal, Buddha, buttered, censorship, challenges, chants, choices, collective, community, courage, crips, crowds, debate. Democracy, decisions, digital, din, disparity, dominant, drowns, easy, entertainment, escapism, evolution, evolve, Evolved, evolving, expendable income, Experiment, fathers, faults, Francesca De Grandis, Gandhi, global town meeting, gossip, guide, have-nots, haves, healthcare, high moral ground, hope, hopeful, horrific, human, humanity, humanity’s, hurtful, ideas, improvement, independence, independent, individual, individuals, insane, insensitive, internet, invention, Jerry Springer, Jesus, jokes, kitten, knee-jerk, life-changing, likes, lions, Martin Luther King Jr, mass hysteria, messages, middle class, MLK Jr, mob mentality, mothers, murder, mystics, new, Nobel Prize, noise, online, painters, pic, platform, poets, political activism, poor, popcorn, post, potential, powers-that-be, prayers, progress, proof, rant, rants, re-tweets, recreational trip, risktakers, Romans, royal insanity, royalty, rulers, sacrifices, Salem's, scientists, Share My Insanity, shut-in, silencing, slanderous, smother, social media, Society, soldiers, species, spectator, spiritual, spiritually, sport, store, structures, syrupy cliché, technological, technology, thinkers, thoughtful, threaten, trials, tripe, truths, viral, visions, wealthy, web page, website, whole, winner, witchcraft
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Finding Happiness during Difficult Times
Mice invaded my kitchen, I just got food poisoning, and…I feel great. Continue reading →
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Tagged attempts, awareness, being of service, benefits, blog, book, brain, challenges, Change, comfortable, conscious, consciousness, constant, creative, creativity, crisis, damage, depressed, difficulties, efforts, emotional, experience, factors, fail, fear, feelings, find, Francesca De Grandis, free, good, happiness, happy, hard, heal, help, helping, heroic, hopeless, ideas, illness, improve, injurious, innovative, isolation, joy, life, limit, mean, methods, misery, mood, multiple sclerosis, negative, new, outpourings, overcome, painful, pathetic, peace, perspective, proactive, problems, psychological, rants, self-pity, severe, Share My Insanity, shut-in, situation, solution, solutions, spirit, subconscious, sudden physical, sunlight, techniques, thought, thoughts, times, traumatizing, unseen, vertigo, wonderful, worried
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Crip-Dancing Grief, Calligraphing Grief
Cat’s taken over my wheelchair, I hate everyone, do you think this is depression? I am deeply sad. Continue reading →
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Tagged art, blog, calligraph, Calligraphing, cat, classes, crafts self-help, crip, dance, dancing, deeply, depressed, depression, DIY inner-transformation, exercise, Francesca De Grandis, garden, glycerite, god, grief, hate, healing, heart, hurts, inner, invigorating, leader, lift, Motherwort, movement feel, mystic, outside, pain, physical therapy, sad, SADD, sadness, Share My Insanity, spirit, spiritual, spirituality, St John's wort, sun, surrender, transformation, weather, wheelchair, work out
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Now, Self, Alone, God
survival, mourning, sorrow, Sicilian heritage, the daily scramble, illness, worry, powerlessness, spiritual practices, beauty, & divine blessings Continue reading →
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Tagged abuse, age, Alone, angst, art, beautiful, beauty, bills, blessings, blog, body, bombing, brush, brushes, brutal, calligraphy, childlike, children, colored, country, crippled, daily, dilemmas, Disabilities, divine, facials, feed, forsake, Francesca De Grandis, gallery, gifts, god, government, guar gum, hard water, heart, help, heritage, holds, homelessness, homemade, illness, inks, inspiration, intellectual, Lessons, life, listens, liturgy, meditation, meditations, money, mourning, mystic, Now, pay, Pearl Ex, poem, poesy, powerlessness, practices, primitive, purple, rights, ritual, sad, scared, scramble, seasons, Self, shaman, Share My Insanity, Sicilian, skin, snow, sorrow, spirits, spiritual, spirituality, support, survival, survive, technique, terrified, terror, tragedy, traumatized, twin towers, vitamin D, weather, whole, winter, wonder, worried, worry
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The Yule Tree Blue Jay
Even physical therapy can be a moment visited by Divinity. Continue reading →
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Tagged Blue Jay, book, books, Christmas, connection, contemplation, Divinity, finances, Francesca De Grandis, god, goddess, Great Eagle, personal, physical therapy, prayer, relationship, Share My Insanity, sing, terror, Tree, yule
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When Life Gives You Lemons, Drink Sunshine.
Trusting in the Divine during the harsh economic realities of present-day America is challenging, to say the least. A Self-Help Recipe. Continue reading →
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Tagged autumn, beverage, blog, book, books, Francesca De Grandis, heal, healing, humor, illness, lemon, MS, multiple sclerosis, recipe, self-help, Share My Insanity
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The 2011 Annual Hassle-Free Thanksgiving Event
Before you cook a dinner you are allergic to, face in-laws who can’t remember your name, and deal with other social absurdities . . . Continue reading →
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Tagged altered, art, artwork, blog, book, cat, community, crip, daily, dinner, Francesca De Grandis, galley, gratitude, holiday, holidays, housebound, humor, in-laws, Linda Roghaar, lists, painting, peace, practice, practices, Share My Insanity, simple, spirit, states, Thanksgiving, Toad’s Wild Ride, transformation, White River Press
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