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Sep 10

Happy Gutenberg Day

Posted by Amy Lenzo 

Happy Happy Gutenberg Day!  My friend and colleague (and one of my original collaborators in the whole Beauty Dialogues idea) Beth Alexander and I are testing the great and soon to be ubiquitous (pervasive all across WordPress.org sites) Gutenberg – just going right in and activating the plug-in bravely, without any filters or safety nets. Into the fray! What will be, will be!

This is a beautiful flower –
I photographed it with my iPhone on a walk around my very photogenic neighborhood.

Ok. So far, so good. Nothing has broken, it’s all working fine.

Things are going so well that we (me and Beth) have decided to write a poem for Gutenberg:

Gutenberg, Oh Gutenberg
You make me giggle, Gutenberg.
Thank you for not blowing up the site
We appreciate that you certainly might.

Its a stretch for sure.
Things no longer what they were.
But what the heck, let’s ride the wave
Into the wild unknown we brave.

(Please excuse the silliness of this post – it was created as an experiment – a test to see how Gutenberg works in the current beta phase – somehow I forgot I actually have subscribers and that as soon as I pushed the “publish” button y’all were going to get this!)

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Feb 17

Zentangles

Posted by Amy Lenzo 

I am beyond excited about my latest passion – Zentangles! I learned how to do this super-simple gorgeous little art form from Jill Greenbaum at a Book Sprint I was part of recently (which has a brilliant story on its own – check out my blog post about it on weDialogue).

I was hooked and have been exploring ever since, every chance I get. Of course I ordered all the introductory “gear” immediately – I’m such a gear freak – which in this case was very good art paper in pre-cut squares, a micron .01 black pen, a graphite pencil and a tortillion (cool fancy French term for “blending stump”, which is decidedly less glamorous).

Here’s the beauty I made with these simple tools:

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Dec 24

Once Upon a Time

Posted by Amy Lenzo 


I’ve been collaborating with a wonderful woman called Mary Alice Arthur, whose work focuses on the power of Storytelling. She calls herself a Story Activist, and in one of the online courses we co-host she invited everyone to write a fairy tale about their lives.

It was too good an opportunity to miss – I’ve always loved fairy tales – so I decided to try. I thought I didn’t have time, but found I could snatch a few minutes here and there – mostly before getting up in the morning or at night after going to bed – and was delighted to find that I COULD write something I liked, even with very little time dedicated to it.

Here’s what I came up with:

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Dec 14

Musings on the Writing Life

Posted by Amy Lenzo 

My email in-box is completely over-flowing with “stuff”, but one of the missives I cherish (and always read) is called “Daily Good: News that Inspires”, sent out by the visionary Niphun Meta and a team of all-volunteer angels. Sometimes what they come up with is just too good not to share!

Here one from Parker Palmer musing on the Writing Life.

 

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