jaynie modinΒ Curators CommunityΒ β’Β 12 days agoΒ β’Β 5 min readBeauty and the Brains.It never fails to baffle me how quickly people assume that if you are considered βprettyβ or have what society deems an βattractive bodyβ, that there is nothing much going on between your ears. Likeβ¦jaynie modinΒ Curators CommunityΒ β’Β 13 days agoΒ β’Β 3 min readHolding Space for ChangeHave you ever noticed how people donβt always want you to grow? Itβs strange. Youβd think change would be something worth celebratingβ¦ the effort it takes, the courage behind it, not to mention theβ¦jaynie modinΒ Curators CommunityΒ β’Β 14 days agoΒ β’Β 6 min readRolling with the waves... and the punches, lol!Many nights when I fall asleep, I can hear the waves from the distant ocean rolling and crashing. Itβs a beautiful sound, both comforting and powerfulβ¦ and waking up to the smell of the ocean in theβ¦jaynie modinΒ Curators CommunityΒ β’Β 18 days agoΒ β’Β 6 min readThank You. No, Really. Thank You.It is pretty strange how two little words can carry the weight of a piano falling from a sixth floor window. βThank you.β I used to throw it out there like confettiβ¦ polite, perfunctory, a defaultβ¦jaynie modinΒ Curators CommunityΒ β’Β 19 days agoΒ β’Β 5 min readDead Wood Doesnβt Grow.Time doesnβt heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go. β Roy T. Bennett Even the wildest of angers and harshest of bitterness can be useful for a relative period of timeβ¦ suchβ¦jaynie modinΒ Curators CommunityΒ β’Β 20 days agoΒ β’Β 5 min readPortrait of a Self in ProgressSometimes I feelβ¦ or rather think (okay, letβs be honestβ¦ overthink) that I should stop drawing portraits because they may not sell. Like, why would people want to hang that on their wall, orβ¦ wouldβ¦jaynie modinΒ Curators CommunityΒ β’Β 20 days agoΒ β’Β 5 min readThe Soul Doesnβt Need a Map.βI canβt change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.β - Jimmy Dean Good Morning! A pretty cold and grey one at that. As I half-expected, I layβ¦jaynie modinΒ Curators CommunityΒ β’Β 21 days agoΒ β’Β 4 min readThe Early Bird Bakes the BreadLast nights beautiful and rather moody sunset Last night whilst already sitting without power due to some kind of fault at one of the power stations nearby we got notice that there was aβ¦jaynie modinΒ Curators CommunityΒ β’Β 21 days agoΒ β’Β 4 min readThis is your road.βYou are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.β β Stephen Richards Funny how winter weather seems to make a personβ¦jaynie modinΒ Curators CommunityΒ β’Β 26 days agoΒ β’Β 6 min readWhat's not to Love about Nasturtiums?!I know some people have a bit of a "love / hate" relationship with this plant, but ever since I discovered that the combination of a nasturtium leaf and a little bit of water could createβ¦jaynie modinΒ Curators CommunityΒ β’Β 27 days agoΒ β’Β 3 min readLetting go of the UnecessaryGood morning, beautiful people. Thursday has arrived and I woke up this morning with this thought reeling in my mindβ¦ how much of my energy gets wasted on (people) and things that donβt actuallyβ¦jaynie modinΒ Curators CommunityΒ β’Β 28 days agoΒ β’Β 5 min readPerfectly Imperfect Expression"You donβt start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking itβs good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it." β Octavia E. Butler I can remember my mom getting a newβ¦jaynie modinΒ Curators CommunityΒ β’Β 29 days agoΒ β’Β 4 min readYou cannot draw water from a rockβIt is quite clear that between love and understanding there is a very close link...He who loves understands, and he who understands loves. One who feels understood feels loved, and one who feelsβ¦jaynie modinΒ Curators CommunityΒ β’Β last monthΒ β’Β 9 min readThe Beauty in your DetailsPaintings are magical things really and though I have always loved art, I have developed a really deep and rich connection to it in the last few years, so I decided to use a close up photo of theβ¦jaynie modinΒ Curators CommunityΒ β’Β last monthΒ β’Β 5 min readHot Potato - Cold Potato!I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old baked potato. - Laurie Colwin Pretty much everyone on my life says that I should have beenβ¦jaynie modinΒ Curators CommunityΒ β’Β last monthΒ β’Β 3 min readInspiration is EVERYWHERE when you open your MIND.When Jude goes to soccer practice, I generally head out to the mall to go do some grocery shopping so that we don't have to see the shops again until his next practice. So, I popped into a localβ¦jaynie modinΒ Curators CommunityΒ β’Β last monthΒ β’Β 5 min readPutting the shoe on the other footIf I go out into my garden right now, I could pick literally endless points and positions to go stand and every single one of them is going to offer me a completely different view. Anglesβ¦jaynie modinΒ Curators CommunityΒ β’Β last monthΒ β’Β 6 min readLife's Little RemindersMuch like most things in life, the way it unfolds, and our experience of itβ¦ is often shaped by our perspective and attitude. How we choose to look at something, and how we respond, can shiftβ¦jaynie modinΒ Curators CommunityΒ β’Β last monthΒ β’Β 4 min readLatibule BloomsSometimes the most exciting places to be are the ones no one else can see. The ones tucked inside of ourselvesβ¦ gentle, colourful, a little bit unruly. I think Iβve always had a place like thatβ¦jaynie modinΒ Curators CommunityΒ β’Β 2 months agoΒ β’Β 4 min readMaking Space for Whatβs NextI have always found it a little curious how routines sneak up on you. You start doing something once or twice, and before you know it, the dogβs giving you side-eye because you dared to skip hisβ¦
