Category: Mojo Monday
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Mojo Monday ~ Autumn Is…
I find beauty and things to delight me in every season. Our natural world is an artists dream. Just look around and you can see how Autumn knows how to put on a show. She is vivid and rich, the hues of yellow, orange and red sometimes shocking even in their glory.
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Mojo Monday ~ Where Love Is Deep
Where love is deep much can be accomplished. ~ Shinichi Suzuki Opening the book where my heart shaped bookmark was hidden within the pages I found myself greeted by Mark Nepo’s essay called Where Love Is Deep. I find his book The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the…
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Mojo Monday ~ Pacing Ourselves
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in beauty, Hope, joy, Kindness, love, love more, Lyz Anzia, Mojo Monday, positive, Women News NetworkA message has been repeating itself this past week. I am listening. I heard it first last weekend during an amazing workshop presented by Cosmic Cowgirls that featured Lyz Anzia, human rights journalist and found of Women News Network. The Women News Network has dedicated itself to bringing global attention to the needs and empowerment of…
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Mojo Monday ~ A Beautiful Body Project
A Beautiful Body Project A Movement Of Women Rising Up To Transform Body Image In Mass Media Through Untouched Photographs, Essays, Audio, And Video! A Beautiful Body Project is an upcoming series of book volumes & an online media platform dedicated to women & body image, dedicated to sharing stories about motherhood, aging, cancer, still-births,…
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Mojo Monday ~ My Body Is Magic
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“I like my body because it’s magic.” – 5-year-old Sofia (aka Lola) Interrupt Magazine published an article that caught my attention. Writer Marie C. begins by sharing a startling statistic. “By the age of 13, 53 percent of girls say they are unhappy with their bodies. When were they happy?”In order to find out, Marie C. photographed…
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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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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…
We Are All Meant to Shine! 