Author: Michelle Fairchild
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Mojo Monday ~ What’s the Word?
A new year can feel like it offers up fresh starts, new beginnings, and opportunities to do things differently. I found myself wondering how long the tradition of proclaiming resolutions has been around. I did a little reading and found that Wikipedia had some interesting notes about the topic. “A New Year’s resolution is a secular…
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Tears of Transformation
Today in Cosmic Cowgirls Magazine is my latest article called Tears of Transformation “Walks Tall Woman felt the tears of transformation run like slow moving, lazy rivers down her cheeks. The truth had taken root in her heart and the impregnated seed of change had been planted in her womb. It would gestate until it was…
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Mojo Monday ~ Believing
There is something about this time of year that encourages many adults, even those who no longer believe in magic, to suspend that rational way of thinking. The holiday season is a time of Santa, elves, flying reindeer, and speed traveling around the world in one night. It is a time of encouraging the young…
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Mojo Monday ~ Courageous Acts of Art
Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another. – Seth Godin –
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The Sacred Space In Between
My Grandmother Twylah taught me that the Sacred Space can be found in between the in breath and the outbreath. Holding the breath to the count of ten allows us to stop the outer world and to open the door that leads to the inner world of the Self. I developed a way to get…
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Mojo Monday ~ Giving Thanks
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity. It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and…
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Mojo Monday ~ The Ten Things to Do When Your Life Falls Apart
In the Fall of 2009 Daphne Rose Kingma was on a walk with a dear friend who had come to visit her from Europe. He had lost his job. His wife had left him. His financial portfolio had dwindled to less than a third of its original size. He had also had to move and on top of it all he’d…
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November ~ National Photo Posting Month
Karen Walrond of Chookooloonks initiated November as the National Photo Posting Month. I have committed to participating and will be posting a daily photo via Twitter and Facebook and thought I would give updates here at We Are All Meant to Shine every five or seven days. (If you want to play along the hash…
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A Poem ~ Can You See Me?
Can You See Me? who are you and where did you come from I am just a mongrel white girl with a blurry and undefined culture I seek connection and sisterhood my skin may be white on the outside but I feel the pain of all my sisters I have deeply felt the losses and struggles of those…
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Mojo Monday ~ Weaves the Web
Gossamer threads of life hold me, Perched between Earth and Sky, Weaving the web, dreaming the dream, Through the two worlds I will fly. With you as my muse, Mother, I create the substance of dreams, Allowing the artist within me To fashion my life with esteem. I mold the clay of experiences Into a…
We Are All Meant to Shine! 