Author Archive: Terri St. Cloud

Terri St. Cloud is an artist and writer and open heart. Follow her on Twitter @terristcloud. Like her Bone Sigh Art's Facebook Page. Read and subscribe to her Bone Sigh Arts Blog. Visit her Bone Sigh Arts website and consider getting a card or poster of book for someone you love, and subscribe to her colorful community newsletter. www.BoneSighBooks.com

"maybe...just maybe...

all you can do is love with all

you have inside of you.

and maybe that love will

heal your wounds."

i didn't start bone sigh arts as an artist.......it just all sort of happened. and maybe because of that, it could give someone encouragement.

so here we go...

... i had just come back from a particularly rough nite of marriage counseling. my normal routine was to come home totally worn out and feeling horrible. i would veg out and wait for the nite to end. on this particular nite tho, i didn't want to just veg out. i wanted to do something for someone else. reach outside of myself. so i sat down and made a gift for a woman in my woman's group. she was at a crossroads in her life and i wanted to show support. i thought i would try a little "art piece" for her new home. we had similar issues we were dealing with, and i felt a connection to her. i wrote her a "poem" about a woman figuring out she matters. i thought that i was writing the poem about her, but when i sat back and read it, i knew it was definitely about me. i painted a watercolor candle to go along with it and matted it for her. i brought the quote in to my counselor the next week. she read it and cried. and she looked at me and said "terri, you have got to keep writing." and i nodded. i knew i did too.

and so began my journey into bone sigh arts.

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