Welcome to Shady Sapling
A place for rest, escape and contemplation
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Featured Posts
It’s all rainbows and safety pins in this internal family systems therapy-inspired emotional parts collaboration.
Stories brings life alive.
A Coffee Shop Meander exploring the anxiety the idea that no thought is original. Huge props to Kayley for providing the inspiration, in a moment of slight desperation.
“Migration is so cool, it’s mind-boggling.” A prompt starting with nature and extinction turned into this. A huge huge thank you to Morgan the artist and around magician for the idea for this Coffee Shop Meander.
In a lost valley, shadows are puppets in a cave that howls and another that drowns. Prompt credit for the second November coffee shop meander goes to Ami, clown extraordinaire, dog parent, budding thespian and amazing baker.
A huge shout out to Morgan and Kayley for inspiring the first coffee house meander where friends, baristas, and Muses gift me prompts to weave words.
Sometimes those Who Wander Are Totally Lost. And that is okay.
The words come and go, the expression is always within. The Writer, our little hero of this little blog, becomes something different. Follow along as she collaborates with words and beats to define herself through creative expression.
A twenty-first century expression inspired from nineteenth-century musings. A huge shout out to this super creative Alice Nelson whose diaries from the 1880s are causing temporal ripples.