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July 7, 2016September 15, 2025Cristen Writes

Open Hearts and Closed Doors

Life can be a lot like wandering along an unseen path through an unknown wilderness – sometimes we are graced by wildflowers and guided by the stars, and other times we are pricked, scraped, and bruised by thistles, thorns, and other sharp things. Life, it seems, is beautiful but can also be brutal. Difficult as […]

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April 21, 2016September 15, 2025Cristen Writes

The Creative Observer

We are natural-born creators, the architects of our lives and the sculptors of our shared reality.  We’re born into this realm with a personal toolkit that allows us to alter our world from the inside out. In this toolkit we have a physical body that can build, a mind with which to invent, and a […]

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March 17, 2016September 15, 2025Cristen Writes

The Beauty of Blooms and Torment of Thorns

What things in life have soft petals without also having a few sharp thorns?  This balance is what makes life so very sweet – the chance to appreciate the complex mixtures between soft and sharp, tenderness and tearing. Too often we instinctively pull back after our fingers are pricked, and we learn to fear the […]

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March 3, 2016September 15, 2025Cristen Writes

Painting with Pure Light

We each have within us an infinite palette of emotions that we use to paint our personal realities.  There’s a complex array of possible hues; and for each different hue there are as many different shades.   There’s the crimson heat of passion and the rosy warmth of friendship.  There are teal waters of tranquility, golden […]

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