Winter 2008

In this issue:

Monthly Mantra * What are you painting?
Web Site Resources * Welcome Home: Guided Visualizations to Cultivate Your Life.
Attraction in Action * Everything begins with a thought.
Out & About * Where I'll Be. See ya there?

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Mantra of the Month

"Your outer life is the palette.
Your inner life is the canvas.
What are you painting?"

(The reverse is equally true...)
Margie Phillips

What's your mantra this month? Share your TWIGs (Talented, Wise, Illuminating Gifts) with others. Together we can Be The Tree! Email me with yours. Include your contact info or website and I'll share it here.

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Web Site Resources

Nature rests throughout much of the world this time of year. Why not follow its lead? Go within, visit with your Inner Self using my CD of guided visualizations. Each one takes to you a different "place". Visit my web site to order yours today!

Click here for a more detailed description about VisionBoard Collages. Amp up your New Year's Intentions by scheduling a VisionBoard Collage art party soon. I'm also going to be at several public venues this winter and spring. Check out my web site for a detailed list of where I'll Be.

Everything begins with a thought.

Hi !

Did you notice that this month's mantra encourages us to practice seeing our inner world as the canvas, and our outside world as the palette: "a thin board or slab on which an artist lays and mixes colors"?

Looking around my outer world right this moment, I must admit it wouldn't take much for me to convince my inner self that most things are gray in every way.

Yet instead of resigning myself to use the only color I see, I've been practicing how to lay and mix color right on top of the gray. Turns out gray is the perfect backdrop for any color I put there. In fact, the gray actually makes every color feel more vivid and lively.

From there it's been easier to just go ahead and just throw some paint on my inner canvas rather than standing in front of it fearful of making a mistake.

And want to hear something amazing? As I finished that last sentence and looked up from my computer screen, a golden sun beam was streaming through my window. Only moments before it was gray.

All in all, this mantra seems tailor made for the winter months, eh? Thanks Margie, it really lead me to a better feeling place! What colors are you adding to these winter months? Please send me your stories, I never tire of this stuff!

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Where I'll Be. See you there?

Happenings in Snow Hill

Snow Hill's Arts and Entertainment District, is sponsoring Winter Blues Jam on Saturday, February 9, 2008. This event will kick off a community effort to renovate the Masonic Lodge Building on Commerce Street. Winter Blues Jam will feature performances by local musicians, tours of the Masonic Lodge, and a silent auction.

The Mood Swingers, comprised of my husband Mike, his brother Tim, and Bubba on the drums is going to be there, as well as local musicians Margot & Angel Resto and Chris English. It's going to be a rockin' time! Let me know if you want tickets or would like to donate something to the cause.

Tickets are $20 per person for the event to be held from 7-11pm at the old firehouse on Green Street. For advance tickets or more information call 443-234-5016.

VisionBoard Collage Workshops

VisionBoard Collage

One picture is worth ten thousand words.

Fred R. Barnard

This year amp up your intentions by hosting a VisionBoard Collage workshop in your home. You bring the pictures, I'll bring everything else. Learn more...

Or, call Curves and reserve your space for the workshop there tomorrow! Way to be spontaneous my friend! Tell Alana you heard about it here.

CURVES OCEAN CITY/FENWICK ISLAND
A VisionBoard Collage will help you stay focused on your goal to live in a healthier body by year's end!

Address: 130th Street & the Bay, Montego Bay Shopping Center, Ocean City, Maryland
Date: Thursday January 17, 2008
Time: 12 noon to 3 pm
Investment: $ 45 for members ($50 for all others)
To register: Please pre-register by calling 410-250-2111 so I can bring enough supplies.

Take Control of Your Energy Level

Take your wellness routine to a more powerful level! Chiropractic, Acupuncture and Reiki are just a few of the healing methods that work on the energetic level of our being.

Learn how to access the energetic level of your being via the Chakra system, a 4,000 year−old model brought to the West through the tradition and practice of Yoga.

This informational seminar will cover the basic history of the chakra system, the location and overall meaning of each chakra, and a guided visualization focusing on each individual energy center.

Atlantic General Hospital, conference room One
Berlin, MD
Date & Time: Saturday Feb. 9, 2008, 9 am to 12 noon
Investment: $ 0.00 please call me at 410-251-7701 to register.

The Serenity Shoppe
216 North Washington Street, Snow Hill, MD
Date: Friday February 22, 2008
Time: 6:30 pm to 8 pm
Investment: $ 0.00, please call 410-632-1550 to register.

I'm planning a weekend seminar in June for those interested in exploring the chakra system in more detail. Find out more including how to register via this link.

Business Planning for Creatives

Business Planning for Creatives I've also got a couple of different Business Classes coming up at Wor Wic Community College in February.

Making the leap from Employee to Employer

This one-day seminar is all about determining what you already have going for you right now, plus simple, effective tools that will inspire your next best steps into the exciting and empowering world of the self-employed.

At: Wor-Wic Community College, Salisbury, Maryland
Workforce Development Building, Room 204
Date: Friday February 1, 2008
Time: 9 am - 3 pm
Investment: $61.00, includes lunch and handouts.

Your Encore Career: Moving from Success to Significance

This course is designed to enable adults in mid-life to create a roadmap to their second or "encore" career. Over the 6-week course you will inventory your past education and experience, and explore your individual preferences, strengths, passions, and sense of purpose. Along the way you will also identify core values, unique gifts and talents.

With this priceless information in hand you will be able to easily identify possible career options and education/training requirements and craft an action plan for achieving your revised career goals.

At: Wor-Wic Community College, Salisbury, Maryland
Workforce Development Building, Room 103A
Dates: Tuesdays February 5, 12, 19, 26 March 4, 11, 2008
Time: 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Investment: $ 84 includes handouts

Register through Wor Wic Community College or call me at 410-251-7701 for more details.

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Every artist dips her brush in her own soul
and paints her own nature into her pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher

(note from Diane: I changed the word "him" to "her". I look for this ending quote after I finish each newsletter. This is the first one I found. Way cool, eh? See you 'round!)