"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and you watch and you work: You don’t give up."
— Anne Lamott (via quote-book)
Monday Mugshots/A Year in the Life of an Art Journal April 15 prompt (by lorwilb)
yay! that’s mine! :)
"I firmly believe in small gestures: pay for their coffee, hold the door for strangers, over tip, smile or try to be kind even when you don’t feel like it, pay compliments, chase the kid’s runaway ball down the sidewalk and throw it back to him, try to be larger than you are— particularly when it’s difficult. People do notice, people appreciate. I appreciate it when it’s done to (for) me. Small gestures can be an effort, or actually go against our grain (“I’m not a big one for paying compliments…”), but the irony is that almost every time you make them, you feel better about yourself. For a moment life suddenly feels lighter, a bit more Gene Kelly dancing in the rain."
— Jonathan Carroll (via thatkindofwoman)
(Source: jonathancarroll.com, via thatkindofwoman)
Mixed Media on Wood
©JamieDoughertyDesigns2013
"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him."
— Maya Angelou, born April 4, 1928 (via bookriot)
(via thingssheloves)
Come see my new canvas on the Gauche Alchemy blog today!!
“Poppy” Mixed media on canvas
©JamieDoughertyDesigns2013
