Shore Lines can help you restore meaning and gain perspective. Mari Messer is a sea lover, who takes annual seaside retreats to collect shells, watch people and animals, and fill notebooks with images, musings, and reflections. The result of her sojourns is a book in the tradition of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea. Shore Lines presents the sea as a guide to life, helping readers become more focused and grounded as they view their lives through Messer's lyrical lens.
With Shore Lines, Messer inspires readers to "explore your own inner seaspace. To some, taking time for reflection may seem like selfish indulgence... But perhaps now more than ever, we need such a respite, a chance to restore balance and clarity... We need to go apart when there's danger we may come apart. If you can't get to the sea, I urge you to sit beside a fountain in a park, or seek out a river, a lake, even a puddle for your reflection. Or simply come along on an imaginal sojourn beside the sea as you read these pages."
Dip into Shore Lines to discover: 
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<li>The power of the night stars appearing at twilight over the sea.</li>
<li>The meaning of a bouquet of gull feathers.</li>
<li>How to learn from sea cows and have "friendship for no advantage."</li>
<li>The retreating tide has a pallet that "accepts our old work and leaves a smooth new beach to entice us to begin again."</li>
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Shore Lines is a vacation retreat by the sea that anyone can take any time of the year.

Shore Lines: Reflections Beside the Wide Water

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Messer, Mari

Alternative Medicine

Red Wheel

Pencil Dancing offers readers a fresh take on developing creative confidence, overcoming blocks and taming their inner critics. They'll discover fun and effective ways to achieve satisfying creative expression and enrich their daily lives, approaching creativity from the point of view of a "dance" between conscious and unconscious, left and right brain, creator and critic, logic and creativity. 
The book is divided into fifty short chapters, presented as if an encouraging teacher or coach is standing close at hand. Readers will find prompts, field trip activities, vivid imagery and other methods that allow them to get into a creative mode, and to conquer writer's block and other creative difficulties. 
* This book is perfect for anyone who wants to be more creative! * Contains concise instruction that's lighthearted and clearly organized * In the tradition of the Artist's Way, Pencil Dancing encourages both creativity and personal growth

Pencil Dancing : New Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit

Literature & Fiction

Walking Stick Pr

Pencil Dancing offers writers fresh, useable information to inspire creative confidence, overcome blocks and tame their inner critics. They'll discover fun, yet effective ways to achieve satisfying creative expression and enrich their daily lives, approaching creativity from the point of view of a "dance" between conscious and unconscious, left and right brain, creator and critic, logic and creativity. This book is divided into fifty short chapters, presented as if by an encouraging teacher or coach standing close at hand. Readers will find prompts, field trip activities, vivid imagery and methods that allow them to get out of their usual creative modes, helping them to conquer writer's block and other creative difficulties. This book is perfect for not only writers, but anyone who wants to become more creative!

Pencil Dancing: New Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit

Arts & Photography

Writers' Digest Books

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