Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now

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Category: creativity

  • Pressed flowers

    The practice of preserving plants by pressing them goes back hundreds of years. I began playing with pressing this spring and am now making cards with the results, which come from our garden. It’s a sweet little hobby. Learning that American poet Emily Dickinson also preserved plants this way and retained them in an herbarium,…

  • Focus and intent

    For heck’s sake. What a mess. My play table. I mean, I could call it a work table but everything on it is about play: making art from dried flowers, midway through an embroidery project, editing a manuscript, sending cards to distant friends. It’s like leaving the kitchen a mess after baking bread and then…

  • Dancing for joy

    I’ve been dancing NIA for five years. I recently wrote a piece for our local weekly newspaper that explains NIA, but since that story wasn’t about me, I didn’t describe my personal experience with it. Aside from the sheer love of moving to music, which I think all of us have (whether it’s foot tapping…