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Last month I did a Facebook live event with local curator & businesswoman Jan Jensen, discussing my watercolor process and background. Here's the replay if you missed us live.

154 giant hearts are scattered throughout the Kansas City area now through the end of May. You may see a few just going about your daily life, but it might be a fun challenge to see how many of them you can visit this spring! The updated Parade of Hearts website is now live! It includes heart info, artist bios, and location info. The new app has GPS maps, the heart & bio info, activities, and offers as well. The "Pass It On" heart is sponsored by PNC Bank & the Power & Light District. It's in a great location...

The "Pass it On" heart for the 2022 Parade of Hearts in Kansas City features over 300 handprints from my husband's 8th & 9th grade English classes. It was a truly collaborative project--I came up with the idea but couldn't have achieved it without him. Even the school custodians had to help--they had to take apart a door so we could get the giant heart in and out of the school!The biggest thanks goes to my husband, who I volun-told to do this with his students, who helped me haul the heart back and forth multiple times, and who is my...

  Parade of Hearts is a celebration of art in the heartland featuring 5 foot tall heart sculptures painted by area artists. Over 700 designs were submitted in the fall of 2021, and I was one of 123 artists chosen to paint a total of 154 hearts. (Most of us got to paint a single heart; a few got to do two.) Somehow I never posted updates about this huge project here on my blog though! So here we go, from the beginning..... "Pass it On" was selected from my two proposals, and I went to pick up my blank white heart...

I realized recently that it's stilly to beat myself up when I mess up a routine or habit I've been working on cultivating, because messing it up gives you perspective. How can you tell if something's working or not otherwise? My light bulb moment came because my coach pushed me to move my meditation to first thing in the morning to make sure it gets done. I was trying to do it around lunch, and I really enjoyed the reset it gave my day, but of course I missed days here and there because things get busy, I don't always...