Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form,
can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
[Oscar Wilde]

We’ve launched another new website—Colwell Industries, Inc. produces exciting items that are familiar to most folks. Have you ever picked up a paint chip strip to take home and consider when you are buying paint? Colwell makes those, and many other related items. The image above is one of the subpages on their new site. In the coming weeks, the site will grow. That is one of the best features of publishing a website. Items can be added, updated, revised unlike a paper publication. A website is never cast in stone.

If you love color, you will also really enjoy Erika Woelfel’s blog, TRENDWARRIORS™—a companion site to Colwell Color. Erika travels the world for Colwell. I’d call that a dream job.

The healing that can grow out of the simple act of telling our stories
is often quite remarkable.
[Susan Wittig Albert]

As a member of the Story Circle Network, I volunteered to do the graphic design, layout and cover for this book. I’m so excited to see it finished. This book can be ordered in two ways from www.lulu.com. One version can be downloaded as a PDF file so that you can print it out on your own printer. I like this since it can be hole punched and put into a notebook. The other version is printed with a full-color cover and is spiral bound. This company did a really nice job reproducing the cover. This book is a weekly topic guide that is described on Lulu as follows:

If you’re a woman who writes or a woman who would like to write, if you’ve ever journalled just for yourself or written family history for your descendants, if you long to tell your own story to your family and friends or to the world, this book will help you get started and keep writing each and every week for a whole year. These writing prompts, by best-selling author and founder of Story Circle Network, Susan Wittig Albert, bring you a wealth of wisdom from famous women and starting points to help you take those wise words and write your own stories and your own wisdom.

The thoughts that come often unsought,
and, as it were, drop into the mind,
are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
[John Locke]

My friend and client, Jim Miller, maintains a photoblog named The Contemplative Photographer. It is well worth browsing. Each post includes his thoughts and one of his beautiful photographs.

Jim owns the publishing company, Willowgreen, and offers a wide selection of books, videos, notecards, and photographs. They inspire, encourage and enlighten. He may not have thought about this, but I can imagine a book evolving from his blog entries.

Have you ever lost yourself in what you are doing? Time telescopes and the world disappears. That happens to me when I am designing, knitting, quilting, reading, etc. I see it as a form of meditation. It lowers my blood pressure and feeds my soul. It also counteracts the negative influences that bombard us from all directions. If you would like to take a brief mental vacation, do browse The Contemplative Photographer.

Children make you want to start life over.
[Muhammad Ali]

This lad is not the owner of Get-A-Tech, an IT company in Wales. He is the year-and-a-half old son of the owner. Wonder what he’d be doing in the photo if his dad was an astronaut or a car salesman? He is also my grandson so an affinity for computer keyboards is in his genes.