Author: Michelle Fairchild
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Mojo Monday ~ Belonging
This weekend I found myself contemplating belonging. The subject came about from a personal experience where I felt completely out of place and also from a post made by a friend on Facebook about seeking the approval of others. Wikipedia describes “Belongingness” in this way. “It is the human emotional need to be an accepted member of a group. Whether…
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The Gift of Tears
I am so thrilled to feature Libbie McIntosh in my column in the Cosmic Cowgirls Magazine. She is an inspiring woman who teaches us all that we can make a difference. Just click the link to read the article that details her experience as a volunteer in Cambodia and beyond. Please click here to go…
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Mojo Monday ~ Art to Make You Swoon
Tree of Life Mosaic by Laurie Mika Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. ~ Thomas Merton I love stumbling upon “new-to-me” artists whose work calls to me seductively or whose creations seize me by the shoulders and I want to fall to my knees with the word…
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Mojo Monday ~ This Land Is Your Land
In honor of 4th of July I wanted to share an amazing rendition of This Land Is Your Land by Sharon Jones.
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Mojo Monday ~ Body Talk
woman 11 from When de Body Talk Collection by fine artist Son of the Moon “Harsh judgments about body acceptability create a nation of hunched-over tall girls, short women on stilts, women of size dressed as though in mourning, very slender women trying to puff themselves out like adders, and various other women in hiding. …
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Be-lated Mojo Monday – Artist Kelly Rae Roberts
Artist Kelly Rae Roberts is so very inspirational. What I love most about her creations is the way she combines her beautiful images with inspirational words. I am both an image and word gal and I just adore it when both of these worlds are brought together. This week Kelly Rae celebrated her birthday and is also celebrating her working…
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Mojo Monday ~ For Keeps
“With everything the world throws at us, imagine how wonderful it would be if we women could stop struggling with negative feelings about ourselves. This book takes a big step in that direction. Every one of these authors has reminded us that we can be positive, we can face illness, injury, and the sometimes insidious…
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Mojo Monday ~ Phenomenal Woman
Fairly recently I was thinking that someone needed to take Maya Angelou’s poem Phenomenal Woman and put it into song. Well a friend of mine posted this video of Candaian artist Amy Sky performing this poem as a song. So fabulous and inspirational. Here is a little story about how Amy Sky got permission to…
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Mojo Monday ~ Best Friends
A Toast to Isaac Newton by Barbara Lavallee “I am noticing that one of my gifts is to be an anchor for friends.” ~Mary MacDonald The August 2001 issue of “O” featured the topic Friendship and this is how it was introduced: “It has been said that there are two kinds of friends: friends…
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Mojo Monday ~ Harvey Milk Day
In honor of Harvey Milk Day – May 22nd Harvey Milk was born on May 22, 1930. He was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the US, when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977. Sadly, Harvey Milk and the San Francisco mayor,…
We Are All Meant to Shine! 