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Mar 29, 2012
Connecting to Customers
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There was a time when I did most of my work as a claims adjuster by telephone. I knew some customers by voice, but most by a flat manila jacket with a seven-digit code scratched across the top... Read More + |
Jan 27, 2012
Art May Not Be Truth, But It Tells It
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and for the artists, this may never become cliché. We walk around in constant wonder, proving it true again and again. Art brings the eternal into... Read More + |
Jan 19, 2012
Taking Care of Carrie
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You round the corner, speeding into the kitchen. Your three year old has pushed one of your ladder back chairs to the counter and climbed up and is precariously standing there, yanking and... Read More + |
Jan 13, 2012
Photoplay: Budgeting Relationship in 2012
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One of my business goals in 2012 is to invest more in clients and fellow vendors. As I build relationships in my work, I'm learning that relationship is a currency I can't afford to ignore,... Read More + |
Dec 30, 2011
PhotoPlay Gallery: Sounds of Your Season
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In December, our PhotoPlay and Random Acts of Poetry prompts focused on the sounds of the season. Our PhotoPlay gallery (below) is a festive collection of the sounds of your Christmas that has... Read More + |
Dec 16, 2011
PhotoPlay Christmas: Do You See What I Hear?
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“Jingle bells, jingle bells….” The sound of my daughter’s voice came down the hall, accompanied by a nonsensical piano tune. Just a few minutes earlier, I had heard her instructing her... Read More + |
Nov 17, 2011
Good Work: Born Inside or Out?
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I walked into the classroom. No books on the shelves. Linoleum floor, cracked. No area rugs. Crayons, paper, glue, scissors, blocks? Nope. Well, at least there were desks and a blackboard. The... Read More + |
Sep 9, 2011
On the Children's Cancer Ward
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The prognosis was pretty good for our friends’ six year old, Samantha. The doctors had found she had a kind of leukemia that goes into remission for long periods and they were hopeful. I had... Read More + |
Aug 5, 2011
Anne Overstreet: The Way a Word Sits in the Mouth
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In June, poet Anne Overstreet published her first collection of poems, entitled Delicate Machinery Suspended: Poems . It is about memory and faith, affection and love, work done and work done... Read More + |
Jun 3, 2011
Crammed with Heaven
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In her post "Crammed with Heaven," new member Bristol Huffman writes about pausing to revel in beauty, and how a Psalm burst forth when she did. (Always carry a pencil and paper!) Read More + |
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Daily Reflection From Laity Lodge
Add to the Beauty
During the past several days, I have been reflecting on various implications of a passage in Ezekiel 41 in which God reveals his plans for beautiful decorations of the temple in Jerusalem. I began... Read More +
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