We Are All Meant to Shine!

Author: Michelle Fairchild

  • Mojo Monday ~ Your Fascination Advantages

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    Do personality assessments interest you?  Back in 2002 when I took the Myers & Briggs test my results were The Idealist Counselor (INFJ).  I loved reading all about it.  When I took the test in 2010 my results again came up the Idealist Counselor.  Upon taking the test today I was bewildered to discover that my results came…

  • We Are All Going to Die. Poetry Can Help.

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    Come read my latest article called We Are All Going to Die.  Poetry Can Help. in Cosmic Cowgirls Magazine You can’t hide You can’t hide You can’t hide Because you don’t know how God’s got your number And he knows where you live Death’s got a warrant out for you ~ Lyrics to Death’s Got…

  • Mojo Monday ~ Gender Roles

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    Each of us were born into a gender, typically one gender, but some of us exhibit physical, genetic, or psychological traits of both genders. How do these gender characteristics affect us? Do they limit our freedom of choice? Or does our gender offer us unique perspectives unavailable to the other primary gender? Facebook users have…

  • Mojo Monday ~ When I Loved Myself Enough

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    When I Loved Myself Enough began as one woman’s gift to the world, hand made by Kim McMillen and given to her friends.  As word spread, its heartfelt honesty won it a growing following. The introduction to When I Loved Myself Enough by Kim McMillen begins this way: For many years I lived with a guarded heart.  I…

  • Mojo Monday ~ Love Letters

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    Love letters.  I have written my fair share.  As a long time lover of snail mail and years of living long distance from a few of my beaus I have spritzed letters with perfume and imprinted them with ruby red lipstick.  Yet not all love letters need be of the traditional romantic genre. Throughout the…

  • Naked Vulnerability

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    Come read my latest article called Naked Vulnerability in Cosmic Cowgirls Magazine. I sat in the creek, sweet water gurgling and caressing my naked body.  I gazed at the greenery, the light reflecting off the water, and felt the very chilly water pour over my thighs, while the gentle breath of warm air on my face and…

  • Mojo Monday ~ The Summer Day

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    “Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” The summer solstice took place this weekend and the above reading of the poem The Summer Day by Mary Oliver seemed so fitting for this weeks Mojo Monday.  Ahhh summer.  It may not be just like it was when…

  • Visionary Dreaming

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    Crystal Charlotte Easton is a Metis Artist born and raised in Fort St James BC, in Carrier Territory-Northern BC (Canada) and she is currently living & raising her family (6 children) on a farm on Vancouver Island. She has the opportunity to attend a month long course in Italy  in July at the Vienna Academy of Visionary Art. She…

  • Mojo Monday ~ A Blessing for One Who Is Exhausted

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    When the rhythm of the heart becomes hectic, Time takes on the strain until it breaks; Then all the unattended stress falls in On the mind like an endless, increasing weight, The light in the mind becomes dim. Things you could take in your stride before Now become laborsome events of will.

  • Mojo Monday ~ Pursuing Our Passions

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    You think you don’t have enough knowledge yet, or training or time. You think all these things and so your mind listens and makes it so. Isn’t time to believe all things are possible?