Fireworks is an alluring gift store in the Seattle airport. Its reasonably-priced, unique and fanciful collection of jewelry, kitchenware, children's toys, and other things you can't live without has caused more than one person to miss their planes. It's the kind of...
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Cindy’s Advent Calendar Week 1½
Here is my friend Cindy's Advent calendar. Cindy updates her calendar on line almost everyday. Even if you don't pray/draw your own, you can follow her calendar and reflect on her words and drawings . Go to Mostly Markers for her posts. It also not too late to start...
Advent Tree Calendar Week 1½
The words on the calendar are Advent words--words from Isaiah, Matthew, Luke, Revelation... and words from traditional prayers of the Church. An eleven-year old friend noticed the word "kindle" on the tree. "Oh, a Kindle!" she said. "Is that what you want for...
Black and White Advent Calendar Week 1
Andy's Week 1 Advent calendar contains simple black-pen doodles. He includes prayer intercessions, meditations on words, and things he's thinking about, I guess.... I noticed the "Guy ties" entry on Friday. We attended a Christmas outreach party at church that night....
Other Advent Calendar Ideas
Here is an Advent calendar shaped like a Christmas tree. Feel free to download the template here or click on the drawing itself. I like to take a copy of the 8 1/2 x 11 page to a commercial copier, enlarge it to 11 x 17 inches (about 129%), and print it on white card...
Advent Calendars
My friend Cindy O. and I have been praying/drawing Advent calendars for several years. Below is a collage of some of our past calendars. We mark each day of the four weeks before Christmas with a prayer for a person or a meditation on a word. Words like" watch, wait,...
Thanksgiving Turkey Prayer
Here is my 2011 Thanksgiving prayer. The turkey wasn't large enough for all of my thanksgivings, so this is my Group Gratitude prayer. Most of the people I am grateful for fit into one of these groups. I've probably forgotten a few, so I'm imagining them on the other...
“Silly Letter-People” Prayers
People do all kinds of wonderful things with praying in color to personalize the way they draw their prayers. Praying in color pray-ers use colored markers, colored pencils, basic graphite pencils, black pens, pastels, gel pens and drawing media I don't even know...
Pumpkin Tree Prayer
On Saturday mornings the open-air Eastern Market in downtown Detroit introduces me to some wacky plants and vegetables . Last year I met my first Romanesco. Romanesco tastes like a sweet, nutty cauliflower. With its interesting logarithmic spirals and fractal pattern,...
Doodling
Sometimes people say to me, "OOH, you wrote a book. What's it about?" When I say "Prayer," 30% of the people roll their eyes. When I say "Prayer and Doodling," the other 70% roll their eyes. It's not a duo that garners respect. For years I've touted the meditative,...