When coming to the decision to add a blog to my website, I was encouraged by many but inspired by a good friend of mine. If you have been on my website  you have seen the link to www.thegratefulmama.com
Karen's latest post, dated May 16th,  is about parenting and specifically  "Encouragement versus Praise.”

While most of us are doing our best to provide loving and supportive foundations for our children it is very interesting to really understand the difference between encouragement and praise and how different the messages are received to our impressionable babes.

Again, just another little gem from Karen's blog that makes me a better mama. I hope you check it out.

t.

Buddha has landed & The Raven has taken flight.

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Welcome to my first Blog post.

It is my wish to share my thoughts, my finds and my heart's appreciation for the blessings that find their way into my life, my art and my journey. I am grateful that you, just by reading this are sharing this adventure with me. Evolution is a grand process and some of you who read this will find many of the words & content familiar as it is very much what we share in our regular 'heart to hearts'. However; I am most excited for those of you who have known me and have not known this side of me, including those who don't know me at all to read these words and discover something new about me and perhaps something about yourself. Due to the former fear I had of judgment, I protected myself by keeping this side of myself shielded from many people. Those days are over. So bring it! :) lol  I finally have a deeper understanding of fear and I no longer fear the illusion of opinions. That being said,  it is my deepest hope that together, each of us will find something that resonates within us in this blog. Maybe in this inaugural entry or perhaps in a future entry.  I don't know. What I do know is that there is no mistake that you have found your way to this blog at this moment. Please read with an open mind and an open heart so that the purpose may find you.

Here we go.... whooo hooo!

t.