Archive for the Gratitude Category


Catching Up With My Own Life and Commonwheel Reports

This last week has been filled with doing reports for the Art Festival for the Festival Committee meeting and catching up with many things in my own world. Plus a couple of hikes. The weather has been so very beautiful, I just couldn’t resist hiking when my friend called as mentioned, and then I called […]

Read More...

Sustainable Commonwheel Art Festival Not as Successful as in the Past

When I heard the number for how much waste was diverted from the Landfill this year, I was a bit disappointed. Then again, I had to realize that the main person who has headed this up the past 3 years was in Minnesota at a conference. And so were about 4 other people who had […]

Read More...

Catching Up After the Commonwheel Art Festival Part 2

Looking back at this year and all the years I have coordinated the Commonwheel Art Festival, I came to the realization that I have put a very personal touch to how I do this job. I am very vested in it coming out well. And I am where the buck stops. This last year it […]

Read More...

Very Quick Update After Commonwheel Art Festival

It is too late to begin catching up completely. It has been a very long time since I was able to post here. Between getting all the finalizing details for the Commonwheel Artists 40th Annual Labor Day Weekend Art Festival in place and doing the Art Festival, then trying to recuperate, I just haven’t had […]

Read More...

Time Flies When Having Festival Detailed Fun

So here it is almost a week later. So much for posting every day . . . Maybe I should be working on my Sustainable Event book instead of blogging. But is was a day I call a “Bad Nerve Day” that comes around once a month. Though I don’t remember one last month . […]

Read More...

Cheering the Pikes Peak Marathon Runners

I have always said it all those runners can run up Pikes Peak, I will get up and cheer them on. So I did that Sunday morning. I did go back to bed both days and am feeling better for doing that tonight. I have a cow bell from the shop next door that I […]

Read More...

A Day Filled with Serendipitous Timings

Wednesday didn’t go as I planned exactly, but the timing of what I did do was filled with serendipitous moments. I called a friend to chat with her about the artist who was going to have surgery and give her some other good news. She was at her gallery and another artist wanted to talk […]

Read More...

Surprise Notice From My Cottage Tenant

On Friday, I had a meeting with another Festival committee member to once more try to get the Fields Park measured so I can place the booths and begin to figure out where artists and sponsors and our Info Booth will be placed. I realized that I needed to use the cement pad that had […]

Read More...

Quick Summary of the Last Week and Young Living Convention

Actually this is more than a week worth of summation. On Monday, June 23rd I rode to the Young Living Convention in Salt Lake City with two people I had never met and my Sharing Inner Health friend. I realized as we left town, that I had left my distance glasses at home . . […]

Read More...

How Fast Can I Catch Up This Week

I have just an half hour to work on this post. I am getting ready to leave for the Young Living 20th Annual Convention in Salt Lake City with a friend and two people I have never met. We will be driving there starting early in the morning tomorrow. We were suppose to leave today, […]

Read More...