This coming Sunday is the 3rd week of Advent. LDS liturgy (such as it is) tends to rotate more around General Conferences than the holy days the rest of Christianity acknowledges. (With the pandemic that’s all been upended even more.) Having grown up in a Protestant tradition, I fondly remember singing in the children’s choir…
Esther Hi’ilani Candari’s radiant artwork introduces viewers to cultural and spiritual expansion through vivid colors, compositional strength, and skilled techniques. Esther’s artwork is not just what we appreciate in the surface image itself. She invites viewers to contemplate complex issues about life, expectations for women, and even the impact of social stigma. We are delighted…
My list of gains and losses over the past nine months probably look like a lot of yours. I don’t want to do another post on the pandemic that shall not be named. I know we are saturated from the endless news cycles or real life effects blaring at us. At times I have the…
Not only is Lauri Schoenfeld a diverse writer, she is an advocate and healer for hurt souls. A survivor of abuse and child scoliosis, Lauri has overcome those challenges and through deep introspection guides others along the same healing path. She is the greater of Inner Enlightenment, a business built around connecting to your inner…
Today the sun shone. Today the sky was blue. Today I touched the hand of someone I love. I think we all know it’s easy for the expressed gratitude of others to turn saccharine in our own hearts. We don’t believe their gratitude, or feel like it interrupts or cheapens our own, or exists expressly…
It’s Thanksgiving morning and I woke to an unexpected skiff of snow across our backyard. I opened the front door and could hear an audible sparkling in the air, a soft pattering noise, as tiny tufts of white dropped listlessly to the ground from nearby pines. It is a beautiful thing to examine the natural…