Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now

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Category: creativity

  • Need inspiration?

    Rule of life: Always have friends that inspire you to be a better person. Meet my dear friend Stephanie Barrow. An artist and designer, not to mention a gardener with a magical touch (Her personal slogan: Art and gardens everywhere!) she takes a kind of fearless approach to life, to trying new things, to embrace…

  • We pause

    What I see depends on where and when I am. If I’d been six feet or so to the right, or five minutes earlier or later, I wouldn’t have seen this bit of rainbow on a mostly blustery day. Robert Frost has a fine poem along these lines, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.…

  • Rear view mirror

    New Year’s resolutions infuse me with excitement. But a week or so before my Jan. 1 ritual, I take a pause to ponder where I’ve been and what I’ve done over the previous year. This is easy for me because I maintain a “got done” calendar. It may be counter-intuitive — most people prefer to-do…