Community in my kitchen I could fill several blog entries talking about all the places I have experienced community in 2011 – online, offline and even overseas – but for this Reverb11 post I’m going to expound upon the sense of family I’ve enjoyed right in my very own kitchen. My husband has two grown kids, and one of the ways I have gotten to feel like part of the family is through time spent cooking together at our house. I love it! This Thanksgiving, for instance, we assembled and decorated a gingerbread village with them while the turkey roasted.…
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Santa Meets Synchronicity What with getting married in the spring and finally unpacking stuff I’ve been carting from one storage unit to another, it’s been a nesty year for me. Much of this nesting involved discarding clutter, so a few weeks ago, when my husband asked what I wanted for Christmas, I couldn’t think of a thing. Likewise for him. I think we both muttered something along the lines of, “not needing more stuff to clutter up the place.” That night, however, while doing dishes, a mental image barged in on my daydreams: it was an upright piano. Yeah, right,…
Synesthesia is my Superpower I chose Synesthesia as my superpower because, while I find it a positive quality, it is often described as a mental disorder. Check out this article from Discovery magazine entitled, Top 10 Little-Known Mental Disorders, which claims, “Synesthesia is a disorder resulting in the sufferer experiencing an alternate sense as a result of the first sense.” Sufferer? Disorder? I love being a synesthete! Makes you wonder how many other things are considered to be abnormal/wrong when, in fact, they actually enrich people’s lives. What is Synesthesia? The word Synesthesia has Greek origins meaning, “joined senses.” The “disorder”…
Here are four different websites I have found (so far!) which pick up where #Reverb10 left off. So whether you call it #Reverb11, #Relish, #Resound11, or something else – take your pick from these prompts for Day 2.
Hey there, mindful bloggers, it’s time for #Resound11. What’s that, you ask? #Resound11 is kind of like a blogger’s advent calendar, although the gifts you gain come not from what you take out, but from the energy you put into it. These gifts come in the form of insights, epiphanies and friendships with other bloggers. Check it out!
I have been blogging at Mental Mosaic since March 9th (my birthday) of 2007. I chose the name “Mental Mosaic” because I didn’t want to limit my blog topics. I also love mosaics, both figuratively and literally. I like the idea of taking one’s pieces and rearranging them into something new and even beautiful. That’s why my first tagline was: Pick up your pieces; Make something pretty. Life can shatter a person in so many ways. It’s what we do with ourselves afterwards that matters. I like that idea, don’t you? Rght away, this blog connected me to some really…