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Step Onto the Path

June 3, 2025June 3, 2025
by Cheryl Ruffing
Step Onto the Path

It felt like a day for oil pastels, so I created this. It’s tempting to leave you with nothing but the image […]

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Elemental Experiments

March 30, 2025March 30, 2025
by Cheryl Ruffing
Elemental Experiments

Life seems to be just a little better when I make time for art play and experimentation each day. Yesterday and this […]

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Frames

March 29, 2025March 29, 2025
by Cheryl Ruffing
Frames

Have you ever stopped to think about the ways in which you frame the world, deciding on not only what gets noticed, […]

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Expression,Day 70

March 20, 2025March 20, 2025
by Cheryl Ruffing
Expression,Day 70

Journaled Words {11.21.22}: “A road gives two choices. That’s not enough.” —Kim Stafford, The Muses Among Us

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Expression, Day 67

March 17, 2025March 17, 2025
by Cheryl Ruffing
Expression, Day 67

Journaled Words {11.12.17}: In “The Nature and Aim of Fiction,” Flannery O’Connor writes: “It is a good deal easier for most people […]

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Expression, Day 61

March 11, 2025March 11, 2025
by Cheryl Ruffing
Expression, Day 61

Journaled Words {2.4.92}: I just glanced over at my goals for Saturday. What a joke. I can’t remember the last time I […]

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Expression, Day 50

February 28, 2025February 28, 2025
by Cheryl Ruffing
Expression, Day 50

Journaled Words {3.3.17}: “Christ didn’t come to make us Christians. He came to make us fully human.” —Hans Rookmaaker

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Expression, Day 49

February 27, 2025February 27, 2025
by Cheryl Ruffing
Expression, Day 49

Journaled Words {5.12.17}: No matter what fear and doubt tell you, your identity is not at stake with the decisions you make […]

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Expression, Day 43

February 21, 2025February 21, 2025
by Cheryl Ruffing
Expression, Day 43

Journaled Words {7.30.22}: So, I am rereading The Cave and the Light as a new person, and I came close to screwing […]

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Expression, Day 34

February 11, 2025February 11, 2025
by Cheryl Ruffing
Expression, Day 34

Journaled Words {12.9.21}: I got some good writing done today, and it makes me happier than most people would likely understand.

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