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Hello Again
I’m resuming my blog called: “Word and Image” after a 5 year hiatus. Some of you are reading this for the first time … Welcome! My last blog on May 03, 2019 with the title: “Things Are Not Always Clear” was the end of a season and the earliest transition of a nine month journey…
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Making Room
©IBKimage2017 Happy New Year 2019 My purpose with this blog and in general is to offer insight and encouragement in life’s transitions. To do that this time I’m remembering a time that I was a professional organizer When I started I helped people organize their offices, houses, garages … by helping them to set up…
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Move On
In 2003 Roger von Oech created a set of cards called: “Innovative Whack Pack … 60 Creativity Strategies to Provoke and Inspire Your Thinking.” On one side of the card is an insight from Heraclitus, who according to von Oesch was “the world’s first creativity teacher … on the other side a strategy “inspired by…
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New Beginnings
Dear Readers: I left you here in the conservatory at the Denver Botanic Garden when I posted a blog on July 31,2015. In that last blog I said: “Having recently experienced several non routine events in some areas of my life, I’d like to offer an insight.…
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Stopping
On a recent trip to Brooklyn, NY this family of “parts” caught my eye while walking briskly down the sidewalk , arm in arm with two my own family members. The middle child up in dad’s arms wears a ®Meineke Care Care Center shirt to let us know that …yes you’ve arrived at the…
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Hope
©2009IBKimage Hello Dear Readers, I’ve missed offering insight and encouragement in your life transitions, but today I’m ready to begin again. I’ve been in a season of rootedness vs. roaming and there have learned to wait for answers I couldn’t find, and in some sense, didn’t need. It’s a season of asking new questions because…
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Changes
Hello. It’s been a couple of months since I’ve shared a word and image to offer insight and encouragement for life’s transitions. I’ve actually had to learn to speak some of those words to myself as I’ve worked through some challenges regarding my health. As I was making a routine left turn on…
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Closed Doors
The gate in today’s image is on the southeast side of the Denver Botanic Garden. I’d never seen it before on my visits, but this summer I’m exploring specific parts of the garden on shorter but more frequent visits. I saw…
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Balls in the Air … Balls on the Ground
We continue to be in transition as our house is still on the market in one location and we’re almost finished with a remodeling project in another one 500 miles away. On a recent walk with an old friend in the new location I was…
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Ah, Spring
Finally, it seems to be spring more than just according to the calendar, and I hope that where you are , there are surprises in your surroundings (or perhaps your hearts) that seemed so hidden during this especially long winter. In my first…