Happy New Year! Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) is the most important holiday for the Chinese people. It is a season for celebration, food, visiting family and friends. According to the traditional Chinese calendar, this is the year 4710. As a child growing up in New York City where a few of my relatives from [...]
Archive for January, 2012
Happy New Year! The Year of the Dragon, 4710
Posted in Against the Grain: Grain-Free Recipes, Nourishing the Mind, tagged Chinese Family, Chinese New Year, Chinese New Year Treat, Chinese Traditions, Guangdong, Lunar New Year, Spring Festival, Toy Shan on January 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
God Saw…and It Was Good…Ponderings on the Source of Our Creativity
Posted in Nourishing the Mind, Nourishing the Spirit, tagged compassionate God, creative God, creativity, Enhancing creativity, Genesis 1: 26, Genesis 1: 31, Genesis 1:1, Genesis 1:25, intelligent God, Isaiah 53:6, Jesus, source of creativity on January 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been pondering about the source of creativity and what enhances its growth. Creativity often feels like a river welling up within me. I only know the realness of this power when I’m practicing my craft, painting; but even more so when I haven’t painted for a while, when I’ve been without. I can’t go [...]
