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June 7, 2018 Kelsey Horton

How to Reconnect with Your Creative Voice

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Hey beautiful friends, I have been stubbornly clinging to the idea that each of my blog posts has to be a standalone piece of art

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I Trust This Day (A Prayer To Start Your Morning)
April 30, 2018June 5, 2018 Kelsey Horton

I Trust This Day (A Prayer To Start Your Morning)

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Dear God/Spirit/Universe/Higher Power/Life, I trust this day. I trust this space where I am standing, and I know that I’m exactly where I need to

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Back to Our Roots
February 26, 2018October 29, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Back to Our Roots

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“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” ~ Edgar Degas   My very first blog post was the best

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Hope and Light for 2017
December 20, 2016October 29, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Hope and Light for 2017

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“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside

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Forge Your Own Comeback
December 8, 2016October 29, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Forge Your Own Comeback

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“…if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping

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July 30, 2015October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Darkness, Moths, and Flinging Ourselves Towards the Light

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When I was 14, I had a dream about a moth. In my dream I chase the moth around a white room with a fly

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June 9, 2015October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

The Story of Starting My Blog (dream now, begin now)

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This week, I celebrate two anniversaries in my creative life: Four years ago, my mentor and I created a farmers market. We spent several years

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April 13, 2015October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Magic, Pink Dresses, and Reviving Our Sense of Wonder

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In June 1998, my elementary school hired a magician to perform tricks at an assembly during the last week of school. My second grade class

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March 23, 2015October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Blossoming, Doubting, and Writing a Book

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I announced last month on my facebook page that I am self-publishing an e-book this year, to be released on October 13th 2015. Since then,

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January 27, 2015October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Don’t Put On The Brakes

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So you’ve hit a moment in your life when everything is falling into place. You landed the boyfriend, the job, the apartment, the publicity opportunity

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January 13, 2015October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

My Liebster Award and Shining the Light on Others

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Rachel Stolzman (an amazing writer at rachelstolzman.wordpress.com and author of The Sign for Drowning) nominated my blog for a “Liebster Award.” I didn’t even know

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December 31, 2014October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Au Revoir 2014: A Tribute

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I try to imbue all of my blog posts with a sense of timelessness – I purposely leave out the daily drudgery and updates about

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November 26, 2014October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Being the Light in the Cold Messy Darkness

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“Travel Light, Live Light, Spread Light, Be The Light.” – Yogi Bhajan   Sometimes spirituality is easy. The Law of Attraction works. We pray for

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Fierceness and Bite: Honoring the Details of Our Lives
October 16, 2014November 18, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Fierceness and Bite: Honoring the Details of Our Lives

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“We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded. This is how writers must think, this

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August 7, 2014October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

For Writers Who Don’t Know What to Write About

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“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.” – Andy Warhol   My blog has been frozen in

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July 10, 2014October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Holy and Messy: Letting Your Life Purpose Find You

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“They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life

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June 25, 2014October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Our Common Molten Human Core – Where Expression Meets Service

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“If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.” – Alice Walker   I unfollowed my favorite self-help author on my

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May 19, 2014October 13, 2019 Kelsey Horton

You Are Not A Broken Toy

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You are not a broken toy. Your arm is not imprinted with the bite marks of a brother or friend or dog or frazzled mother.

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4 Truths That Every College Graduate Needs to Hear
May 7, 2014May 26, 2019 Kelsey Horton

4 Truths That Every College Graduate Needs to Hear

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Graduation season brightens my heart. When I walk into bookstores and see Oh The Places You’ll Go prominently displayed, I remember the excitement and hope

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April 22, 2014October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Don’t Think: When Writer’s Block Meets Self Doubt

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I have dozens of half-written blog posts that linger on my computer, posts on beautiful topics like post-graduation devastation, the insecurities that emerge in our

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March 20, 2014October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Anxiety, My Teacher: Gentle Strategies to Look Fear in the Eye

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There is a frantic young child inside me who screams and shakes. Her name is Anxiety, and I can feel her quivering in my chest.

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February 27, 2014October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Dear You, Love Spirit: A Transformative Exercise

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“Perhaps someday I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.”

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December 26, 2013October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Au Revoir, 2013: A Tribute

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I love the fresh start of a new year. Every December I daydream in the realm of possibility – I envision the person I want

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December 2, 2013October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

So You Feel Called to Write: A Compassionate Creative Manifesto

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“I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.” – Mary Oliver I have spent

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November 19, 2013October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Authenticity Meets the Little Puzzle Piece

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“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.” – May Sarton One winter when I was

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May 15, 2013October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Tending to the Flock

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“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is

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April 29, 2013March 29, 2019 Kelsey Horton

The Joys of Being Passionate

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“All the great saints, in all the traditions, are beings who live absolute passion.” – Daniel Odier When we meet new people, one of the

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