Rebecca Sower

oh where have all the good men gone?

love series, session 5

"Most of all, love each other as if your life depended on it. Love makes up for practically anything."

{ 1 Peter 4:8, The Message }

Happy Valentines Day, sweetie pies!

love series, session 1

"The way to love anything

is to realize that it might be lost."

{ g k chesterton }

I'd like to share some of my favorite love quotes and thoughts over the next few days and weeks.  And more stitching ideas with my hearts embroidery patterns here.  Live to love!

art stories

Coming very soon...

a new book brought together by Jenny Doh.

I am honored to be a part of...

For more info on the book, here's a promo video.

Enjoy!

 

still here

After a few emails ("hi Rebecca, are you still there?"), I woke up and realized just how long it's been since I visited with you here.  Updates.....

A couple of weeks ago, a dear friend introduced me to Thistle Farms in Nashville.  I've visited their facility twice now, such authentic and strong women.  Here's a bit of what they're about...

"Thistle Farms is a social enterprise run by women who have survived lives of violence, prostitution, and addiction. By hand, the women of Thistle Farms make natural bath and body products that are as good for the earth as they are for the body."

Their products are beautiful and truly good healing products, been using nothing but for a couple of weeks now.  Oh, and the sweet lady in shipping told me to tell you that if you purchase something online from them, she takes time to pray over your product and its recipient.  Really.  How many of the items you purchase are prayed over?

 

For my gardening friends, are you starting your seeds indoors?  I've been tending my little green indoor garden for a couple of weeks or so.  This is so relaxing and rewarding for me.  But I'm ready to get out there and dig in the dirt for real, aren't you?

 

I've been in my studio very little lately.  The pull just hasn't been there.  We go through these times, and I always say to roll with it.  Forced creativity usually tells on itself. 

Been making and packaging up a few things to take to my new little booth at Artifacts...a handcrafted artist emporium in a nearby town.  It will be fun (interesting?) to see how I sell locally. 

And last but not least, when the weather permits, I've been heading down to our old tobacco barn.  For the years we've lived here, the old barn has sat quietly by, waiting for something.  I've just never been sure what that something is.  But lately I've been going down, cleaning up, clearing out, thinking, noticing.  Got something up my sleeve for the old barn.  The scheming's been fun.

So there you go.  It's what's going on in my world of late.

But enough about me...what's been keeping you busy?

 

water

Close your eyes and breathe that word like a sigh.   Water.   We really have no clue how fortunate we are to have water at our every turn.  It is a beautiful gift we have been given.

 (Photo from Haiti...Elcy and Katherine getting water from well on day we built Elcy's house)

There cannot be life or nourishment without this, the most precious of all natural resources.

When Jenny at Crescendoh asked me to design some rubber stamps with all proceeds going to water.org...how could I say no to that?

Help me help Jenny raise awareness and funds to give water (life!).  When you purchase a set of the stamps here, all proceeds go directly to water.org.

"What do we live for if not to make

the world less difficult for each other?"

{ george eliot }

summer slowdown { no. 01 }

Family and I (and a couple of extras) are heading for the beach.  To do nothing at all.  A quiet beach hopefully, one we haven't been to before.  This year so many of us are having to plan our beach days around that dreaded oil.  So sad, all of it.

And so, as I try to do each year around this time, I will leave you with a few posts including some photographs that are my own.  And some words that are not. 

These first words special, because they come from a man who delivered his most famous speech a couple of days before I was born.  Special words from a man who 'was the change he wanted to see' in the world.  I still cry when I read that speech.

 

"Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love."
{ martin luther king jr }

Oh may I always choose to stand on the side of love...

filler photo { no. 06 }

Kazuri beads made by women in Kenya, East Africa...

"Somewhere children dance to the joyous music of life

and elsewhere they only cling to existence.

They are all ours."

{ laurie kohl }

keys

"The three keys to more abundant living...

caring about others...

daring for others...

sharing with others."

{ william arthur ward }

heart sessions { the final one }

"Justice at its best

is love correcting everything

that stands against love."

{ mlk jr }

and here's another heart roll . . .colette . . . household 6 . . . ginny . . . marilyn . . . ludid . . . kitty . . . rhonda . . . cherie . . .wendy . . . katie . . . karen . . . angie . . . and boy I hope I didn't forget anyone, please let me know if I missed you.

Happy heart day!