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Bloom Portland 2023: Personal Growth Expressed through the Beauty of Art
In the journey of life, we go through phases of growth. Just like a flower that blooms, our personal growth allows us to blossom into remarkable individuals. Like art, our growth is a medium through which we express our emotions and experiences. Struggles and...
Silver Linings
MAY I have a moment of your time? I’m pretty sure unless you live under a rock, you know that May is Mental Health Awareness Month. As someone that works very hard on my mental health, I almost feel like it’s a month of celebration. It makes me happy that it feels...
Waves of Love
Waves of love is OBVIOUSLY about love. But not your fairytale love: real love, in all its different forms. And let’s be honest, love isn’t all butterflies and happiness. It’s often pain and sadness, heart-wrenching, gutting sadness that leaves you shattered on the...
She See Stars
One of my earliest memories—I was probably 4 or 5—is a chilly evening. For some reason outside of my childhood concern, my parents had a giant pile of gravel in front of our house. I was sitting on top of this with my Dad and my little brother staring up at the clear...
April Showers Bring May Flowers
I’ve been thinking a lot about growth lately. How beautiful things come from periods of seeming inactivity. Sleep allows our bodies to rest, grow and heal. Rainy days that keep us inside, water the tiny seeds that become bright, beautiful flowers. 2020 was a year...
Big Girls Do Cry
Can we talk about mental health for a minute? I know, it isn’t “mental health day” or “mental health month”, but do we really need a day or a month to talk about something that in a normal year affects each and every one of us? Not to mention we’re not living in a...
Metamorphosis
A change of the form or nature of a thing or person into a completely different one. I’ve found the journey of a butterfly resonating so strongly with me this year. And no, not in a cheesy I’m going to tattoo a butterfly on my ankle kind of way. This year has had a...
Alone Together
Never in most of our lifetimes have we experienced anything so altogether unifying and isolating at the very same time. Back in March when Covid-19 first hit we quickly yanked the kids out of school, stocked up on basics, and prepared to spend a couple of weeks at...
Bikini Time
She Wore an Itty Bitty, Teeny Weeny Yellow, Blue, Pink, Green, Red…….you get the picture, bikini. Dreams coming true over here my friends! I remember wanting to be a professional artist at a very young age. I would draw fashion designs for my Barbie’s and sew them...