Author: Michelle Fairchild
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Mojo Monday ~ Banging On the Doldrums
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Banging On the Doldrums by Michelle Fairchild It began as a word nerd alert. In an exchange with a friend the word “doldrums” was used. I found myself curious about where the word doldrums originated. So I looked it up. Then I found myself getting an image of a colorful art journal page with drums…
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Mojo Monday ~ Express Yourself
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Jack Kornfield, Buddhist author and teacher once wrote “I’ve been told the story of a six-year-old girl who asked her mother where she was going one afternoon. The mother replies that she was headed for the university to teach her students how to draw and paint. ‘You mean they’ve forgotten?’ her daughter asked, amazed. Many of us…
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Mojo Monday ~ Rocking Chair Moments
When I’m 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I’m going to feel old or forget my younger days. ~ Patty Duke A friend of mine once described a particularly happy experience as a rocking chair moment. He said he knew that when he was old…
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Mojo Monday ~ What and Who Inspires You?
Art by Donald Crew from the book Freight Train If I ask you what or who inspires you, do answers immediately come streaming forth or does it make you sit and ponder? Just last night and this morning I felt like I was on the freight train of inspiration. Even just now as the words…
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The Red Boa Perspective
Today in Cosmic Cowgirls Magazineis my latest article called The Red Boa Perspective Perspectives are a lot like opinions in that everyone has them. I am quite intrigued by perspectives. Much like our opinions, our perspectives are also formed and influenced by our perceived identities and our life experiences. Yet just as our identities can…
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Mojo Monday ~ Coming Home to Yourself
Art by Michelle Fairchild The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin. ~ Parker J. Palmer As our Cosmic Cowgirl tribe of writers dives deeper in contemplating and wondering about topics like identity, perspective, vision and so on, I find greater clarity. My latest article in Cosmic Cowgirls Magazine is…
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We Are Stardust
Today in Cosmic Cowgirls Magazine is my latest article called We Are Stardust Can you wrap your mind around the reality that both you and I are literally made of stardust? How does an identity of being made of stars feel when you try it on? Do you stand a little taller? Does it blow…
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Mojo Monday ~ Celebrating Mamas
This evening I found in my daughter’s backpacks little books and bracelets they had made for me for Mother’s Day at school in their first grade class. The little books had prompts throughout for them to answer questions about me. I giggled and felt my heart melt as I read through both of them. How…
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Mojo Monday ~ Infinite Love
Infinite Love Lyrics Stay with meAnd never let me knowJust to celebrate the notionStay with me, don’t goCause the truth in your eyesIs the light in the darknessYou are my love.. My Infinite Love There’s noOther way that we can goWay that we need beHere is the prophecyThere’s so, much thereMore toweringNeed discoveringBe empoweringOnce youKeep…
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Mojo Monday ~ How Do You Celebrate Your Birthday?
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Mojo Monday was born in May 2010, so we are celebrating her 3rd Birthday this month. I wanted to share some of the things she has taught me over the course of the past three years. She taught me that when you have a dream or goal that you need to set aside the time to do…
We Are All Meant to Shine! 