by Marta Wheeler | Jan 24, 2024 | Marta Blog
Welcoming the Companion As snow buries everything in sight and the bright white sparkles are blinding when I cannot leave the house for the arctic cold, I find myself deep in the Womb of Winter. Alone. Creative mind concocting bizarre sagas building anxiety and body...
by Marta Wheeler | Jan 16, 2024 | Marta Blog
Winter’s Creations Watching youngsters build a snow fort on a Sunday afternoon I wonder what can I build? Instead of feeling trapped in the house when snow packed roads could lead one into a drift of despair work a long-forgotten puzzle, play a tune stitch...
by Marta Wheeler | Jan 10, 2024 | Marta Blog
Epiphany Season Blessings As if on cue the precious toddler dressed in sparkly gold escapes the arms of her mother causing waves of giggles in the pews just as this preacher spoke of another adored and ornery toddler named Jesus testing the limits of his world ages...
by Aretha Gearhart | Jan 3, 2024 | Newsletter
Inspiration – January 2024 with Insert
by Marta Wheeler | Jan 3, 2024 | Marta Blog, Uncategorized
Member Login Username: Password: Blessings of the Imagination Grateful for past wintry days hopping on an airplane heading south boarding a small boat to Nassau or the Galapagos. This year I’ll take my minute vacation weekly in the warm clear sparkling waters of this...
by Marta Wheeler | Dec 20, 2023 | Marta Blog
Christmas Pageant 2023 As though set up for a fancy Christmas greeting card the sun shines through the blue chancel windows like stars brilliantly bursting on the night Jesus was born. You can nearly hear the angel’s voices joining ours as Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus...
by Marta Wheeler | Dec 13, 2023 | Marta Blog
Advent Song Tuning If you’re not tempted by long winter naps as the days shorten and never sing the blues there’s little need to keep reading this poem. Certainly, the blues were present when stepping out this calm sunny afternoon to stretch my peppy dapple blue...
by Marta Wheeler | Dec 6, 2023 | Marta Blog
Sticky One cold December afternoon when even the sticky sap freezes to the trunk of the pine small faces appear to be stuck to paper plates while crunching ooey, gooey popcorn sculptures and cut out sugar cookies piled high with bright-colored frosting and abundant...
by Aretha Gearhart | Dec 1, 2023 | Newsletter
The holidays will be here soon! Catch up on all the latest news so you don’t miss a thing: Inspiration – December 2023
by Marta Wheeler | Nov 29, 2023 | Marta Blog
One walks the straight line down rows of cedar windbreak while he wanders in and about touching each rough tree trunk. One swims laps between dark lines painted on base of pool while she drifts along the shoreline wondering “where am I now?” One cuts wood...
