Face of Joy-5-Snowy day and Play
April 14, 2009 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under Creativity, contest, crafts
Yesterday, it was summer.
That is, until a spring snow storm blew in and dumped feet of snow on us.
It was a wild and woolie night… I kept getting up to watch the snow building up.
The snow storm began as thick thick fog that gave up on itself and flopped down as wet mush.
That picked up it’s spirits and so , then it really got into the swing of things.
It started dumping hefty globs of snow and sculpting trees and wires and fences and windchimes and and and
our little corner of the world turned very white, yet again….
The geese, who had …read more
April-challenge-Make a face of Joy-1
April 1, 2009 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under Creativity, contest
Any month that starts with with a day of foolishness deserves to have a celebration of playfulness, doesn’t it?
I’ve been reading up on ‘play’ (click the link to read what wikipedia has to say about play)
and playfulness.
Expert after expert has talked about the importance of being playful
for our entire lives.
There was a wonderful conference about Serious Play last year.
All the experts agree:
Play is essential to our well being, in body, mind and spirit – as individuals and as communities.
Being playful can alleviate all kinds of stress.
Playfulness increases resiliency and flexibility….and, whew… do we ever need to be flexible these days!
Because …read more
