Author: ShellyLFrancis
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Do you and your ideas shine bright like a diamond?
I have a box where I keep ideas, like props I want to play with some day. In that box sits a light bulb twice as big as my palms. It’s hard to hold onto ideas, sometimes. They’re fleeting. Unclear. Brilliant but bygone as soon as you try to fill them with details and words.…
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Happy Birthday to Us
On my birthday I decided to dub it the official launch birthday of Creative Courage Press, LLC. My birthday is also my sister’s birthday, too, (a year apart) so we always sing “Happy Birthday to Us.” It takes creative courage to start a business, to birth a book, and to go public with your ideas.…
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Finding Your Center in the Hurricane of Uncertainty
What happens when you wake up feeling overwhelmed by the day before it even begins? Some Mondays are like that. Some days are like that. It’s hard to get back to your heart and inner knowing that all shall be well. How do you return to the calm in your center? I’ve been pondering spirals…
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Finding Faith in a True Sentence
It’s been too many weeks since I last wrote a blog. I had hoped to get into a groove and post at least once a week. It’s not for want of ideas. Or photos. It’s for want of perfection. Today I told a friend how I keep looking at my photoshoot pics, trying to find…