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27 Sunday Jul 2014

Posted by ckswarriorqueen in a better world, Acceptance, Advice, Art, Attention, Attentiveness, Blessings in Disguise, Change, Children, Compassion, Courage, Creativity, Decorative Art, Discernment, Epiphany, Family, Father, Gifts, Gratitude, Growth, Health, Heart, Help, Illumination, Kindness, Listen, Loss, Love, Mindfulness, Mother, Neuroscience, Patience, Peg Streep, Pithies, Psychology, Psychology Today, Regret, Resolutions, Self-examination, Self-possession, Serenity, Strength, Sustenance, Thanks, The Future, Truth, Warrior, Wisdom, Worthy

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Pithy: adj. [PITH-ee] ~
Brief, forceful, and meaningful expression; full of vigor, substance, or meaning; containing a definite point.

My dear friend Peg Streep and I have been working on a new project that we call “Pithies” (singular:“Pithy”). I posted the first group here, a couple of weeks ago. Here is our second group . . . we hope you enjoy them, and learn something from them.

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If you’d like to share them with your friends and family, please visit our Facebook pages and share from there. You can find me here, and you can find Peg here.

We have big plans for our Pithies. If there’s something you’d like to see us address, let us know and we’ll do our best. In the meantime, enjoy!

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January 14th ~ Thy Will Be Done

14 Tuesday Jan 2014

Posted by ckswarriorqueen in Art, Conscience, Decorative Art, Faith, God, Joy, Light, Mindfulness, Spirituality, The Universe, Will

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January 9th ~ “Right” Work

09 Thursday Jan 2014

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January 4th ~ We Are the Temple

04 Saturday Jan 2014

Posted by ckswarriorqueen in Art, Conscience, Decorative Art, Faith, God, Illumination, Love, Spirituality

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Through love, through faith, through living a true authentic life,
we ARE the Temple.

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January 2nd ~ Safe in the Storm

02 Thursday Jan 2014

Posted by ckswarriorqueen in Art, Beauty, Books, Bookstores, Decorative Art, God, Illumination, Joy, Kindness, Meditation, Protection, Safety, Spirituality

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The verses I selected for the pages of the Illuminations desk calendar come from a daily devotional from the 19th century entitled Daily Strength for Daily Needs. edited by Mary W. Tileston. My friend and partner in so many projects, Peg Streep, curated a selection of verses from Mrs. Tileston’s book for Bulfinch Press that I illustrated, now (sadly) out of print. Many of the artworks in this daily calendar are excerpted from Peg’s and my version of Daily Strength for Daily Needs: An Illuminated Selection. These sunrise/sunset illuminations are two of those artworks.

I find a great deal of comfort in the idea that the Lord is aware of my comings and goings, and that He watches out for me while I am out in the world. I feel safe in the knowledge that I am cared for, even while distracted and perhaps unaware of His presence in the course of my daily wanderings. We are under a winter storm warning as I write this; it makes me feel secure to think that my “going out and coming in” is regarded with loving attention by Him who made me.

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Happy New Year!

01 Wednesday Jan 2014

Posted by ckswarriorqueen in Accountability, Art, Beauty, birthday, Change, Creativity, Decorative Art, Drawing, Fun, Happiness, Health, Holidays, Mindfulness, New Year's Day, Painting, Resolutions, Self-Portraits, Swimming, The Universe, Weight Loss, Work, Writing

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I want to wish everyone a happy, healthy, prosperous new year!
2014 sounds almost like a science fiction Star Date to me…this is the year I will turn 60; I remember when 1984 sounded like a science fiction Star date to me, and now that is (almost literally) half a lifetime ago for me. My resolutions are simple:

  1. Lose 30 lbs. by year’s end. (It will make resolution #2 easier…)
  2. Swim a mile and half in laps at one time by my 60th birthday. (For those who don’t know: I made my mile in laps one week after my birthday! WOOT!!)
  3. Swim at least twice a week. It’s good for my head, my heart, my work, and my art.
  4. Draw something every day.
  5. Blog something every day.
    It’ll be easier this year, because what I plan to do is post the day’s page from my page-a-day desk calendar, Illuminations, published by Leap Year LLC.
    Here’s the cover:

    IIluminations 2014 Desk Calendar

    IIluminations 2014 Desk Calendar

    And here’s today’s page:

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January 1, 2014 ~ New Year’s Day

So, those are MY resolutions…I’m trying to keep it simple, doable, and well-integrated into the infrastructure of my life as it is, but incorporating more of the things that make me truly happy. One of the true gifts of 2013 was discovering how much I still loved drawing, and to discover that I hadn’t lost my drawing “chops” even though it had been a reallllllly looooooong time since I last picked up a pencil/pen/conte crayon with intent to draw. I never lost my drawing eye, and I guess I’ve been training it all this time.

I plan to LIVE OUT LOUD in 2014! What about you?

What are your resolutions for 2014? And how are you going to make it all happen? Was there something that really worked for you in 2013?
Please share… we can support each other in our intentions to build on successes and throw away what doesn’t work any more.

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My New Wall Calendar for 2014!

08 Friday Nov 2013

Posted by ckswarriorqueen in Art, Books, Bookstores, Creativity, Decorative Art, Drawing, Dreams, Gifts, Gratitude, Holidays, Meditation, Mindfulness, Painting, Spirituality, The Universe, Work

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You may remember that last year at around this time I was feverishly working at night (after working days at my then brand-new job at the Y) to finish the pages of my first freelance project in more than ten years.
Well, yesterday, I received my author copies of my Illuminations Wall Calendar. I am SO HAPPY with the way it turned out!

Illuminations 2014 by Claudia Karabaic Sargent, front

Illuminations 2014 by Claudia Karabaic Sargent, front and back

Illuminations 2014 by Claudia Karabaic Sargent, back

This was my first project using InDesign. All the artwork in the calendar is a digital remix of my original watercolor paintings from the gift books I did with my friend and partner, Peg Streep. There’s also a Page-a-Day Desk calendar– as soon as I have the ISBN for that, I will post it. Here’s what the box looks like:

IIluminations 2014 Desk Calendar

IIluminations 2014 Desk Calendar

I taught myself the things I needed to know for the project, using the tutorials on Adobe.com and by trial and error (my favorite way of learning).
Even after all my years of freelancing, it’s still a big thrill to get author copies of something I’ve created. This was my baby from concept, to proposal, to completed project. I thank my friend and agent Melissa Turk for selling this project to Leap Year, and I thank Leap Year for producing it.
I hope you all enjoy it!

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I Come from a Long Line of Warrior Queens

22 Monday Apr 2013

Posted by ckswarriorqueen in Advocacy, Art, birthday, Children, Conscience, Creativity, Decorative Art, Drawing, Dreams, Family, Gifts, Gratitude, Love, Memories, Mother, Painting, Spring, Stories, Story

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Mom & me, Early 1955

Mom & me, Early 1955

Today, Mom would have turned 90 years old. We lost her on July 18, 2005, after a brutal and harrowing couple of months that I covered here, here, here, and here. I am very fortunate that in her final years on this earth, I made my peace with her and she with me; her last words to me were “I love you, you’re my prize.” A person can live happily for a long time on a memory like that.

For me, winter and early summer are about my dad; he was a January baby, and we lost him (literally) in June of 2010.
Spring is always about my mother; when the snowdrops start to peek out of the cold ground, and crocuses begin to unfold, the forsythia blossoms bright yellow and the Bradford pears start their bridal march up Northern Boulevard, their white blooms wafting on the warming breezes, my mother is close by. She’s never too far– there are times when I imagine I see her face in the mirror overlaying my own– but she breaks out in the spring. It’s her birthday, Greek Easter, Mother’s Day, our first communions…spring is and always has been her season.

When I was a teenager and then a young adult, and thought I knew everything about everything, we rubbed each other the wrong way, often. As stubborn as my mother was (she was, after all,  born on the cusp of Aries and Taurus), I could match her. We would yell and carry on; she’d forbid me to do one thing or another, and I would do it any way. I honed my passive-aggressive skills at her knee.
If she knew she was right, she would not cave; neither would I.
Those battles were great training for life. It wasn’t until I was older, and we made our peace with each other, that I recognized what a boon her fighting spirit was to me. When I was young, I felt thwarted by her restrictions and demands and opinions; in retrospect, I see that her fighting spirit was what made my life possible.

Here’s one story:
I decided sometime around the fifth or sixth grade that I wanted to go to the High School of Art and Design. The twin sisters of a grade school classmate had been accepted to A&D, and when I heard about it, I wanted nothing more than to go to a school where I could draw all the time. I told my folks, and I think they were hoping I would get over it, the way I got over wanting to be a nurse (when I was six) or a Maryknoll Missionary nun (when I was eight).
I didn’t get over it.
Fast forward to eighth grade, and taking the diocesan placement tests in mid-autumn (for the Catholic high schools); my choices were Mater Christi (where almost all my friends would go), The Mary Louis Academy (where my close friend Carol was trying to persuade me to go), and St. Agnes (where I REALLY did not want to go, but I needed to list three schools). I did very well on the test, and would have no problem going to the school of my choice. In January, I had the placement test and portfolio submission for the High School of Art & Design. I’d worked on my portfolio all during my Christmas vacation with Our Lady of Sorrows’ third grade-and-art teacher, Miss Mary Biedermann. She helped me matte all my artwork while listening to Leonard Cohen songs (a revelation!) and eating brie (ditto!!). It was a glimpse of what a student artist’s life might be like and I was hungry for it.

I wondered in later years if the nuns knew that Miss Biedermann had helped me; she did so outside of class and on her own time, in her own home. I travelled by myself on the subway with my art and supplies in hand; she picked me up in her car near Borough Hall on Queens Boulevard to take me to her place in Richmond Hill. I do not remember how or by whom the arrangements for all of this extracurricular activity were made. Miss Biedermann wasn’t even my teacher– my middle sister Nancy was in her third grade class– but, at some point, my parents had to be involved with the planning. I remember bringing home the day’s matted work and showing what I’d done to my mom and dad; I remember thinking they did not really understand what I was doing, but at least they were not fighting me. At that point, I don’t they thought I would get into A&D; they knew I loved to draw, but I don’t know how talented they thought I was, or –even if I was talented enough– whether this was a path from which I could be diverted. There were no artists in my family; there was no road map for them, or me, to follow. They were not sold on the idea of me being an artist…but time could change things, and anyway, maybe I wouldn’t get into A&D.

I got into Art and Design; my real life would begin that fall. All I had to do was tell Sister Mary Dorothy, the principal of Our Lady of Sorrows.
I told my teacher, Sister Regina de Lourdes, that I’d been accepted to A&D.
She, or someone, told me and told my parents that there would be a full scholarship for me to go to The Mary Louis Academy, an offer which was rarely made to anyone.
I told my parents about the scholarship, and that I didn’t want to go “Snob Hill” (what everyone called The Mary Louis Academy in those days).My mom asked me where I did want to go, and I said Art & Design. They asked me if I was sure, and I was, so that was that; there was no fighting.

I recognize now, as an adult, what an extraordinary leap of faith that was for my parents to make. Their firstborn thirteen-year-old daughter would be going to a high school that none of her classmates were attending, taking a subway into midtown every day, learning to be a professional artist.
She/I would be doing this instead of going to a Catholic high school that wanted me enough to pay the full freight, a high school that would put me on track to St. John’s, Fordham, or even an Ivy League school.Inexplicably, they let me do what I wanted to do.

It wasn’t over at OLS, though; Sister Mary Dorothy was incensed by my choice. She called my home while I was in school to speak to my mother. She yelled at my mother, carried on about how my mother was letting me ruin my life, that I wasn’t old enough to make such a choice, and on and on; she pulled every manipulative trick in the book to try to get my mother to change her mind, or better yet, change my mind for me.
My mother refused, and told Sister that it was my choice, and it was done. Sister persisted, and yelled some more.
My mother hung up on her. She fought for me, against every grain of her own doubt and fear about my choice, and she hung up the phone on the principal of my school.

I don’t know that I would have been so brave had I been in my mother’s place.
When I asked her, many years downstream, why she had let me go, she said “Because you wanted to– it meant so much to you.”
That is love, and courage, and faith, and hope, wrapped in the fighting spirit that my mom held on to until her last breath. She not only gave me life, but she gave me MY life, the life I was truly meant to have.

On this ninetieth anniversary of her birth,  I say THANK YOU, Mom, for all your many gifts, but especially for that one. It was the fork in the road that made all the difference.Geranium Blossoms

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A Sandy Valentine

21 Monday Jan 2013

Posted by ckswarriorqueen in Advocacy, Beauty, Community, Decorative Art, Drawing, Dreams, Gifts, Gratitude, Hurrican Sandy Relief and Rebuild, Loss, Love, Painting, Personalized Products, Progressive Politics, Valentines, Values, Weddings, Zazzle

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All Valentine’s Day cards are 40% off at Zazzle from now until Thursday.
I have lowered prices on everything in my shop
to encourage more people to buy.
All cleared royalties earned by all of my products (not just the Valentines)
will be donated to Hurricane Sandy recovery and rebuilding efforts
in New York and New Jersey
from now
until the first anniversary of the storm, October 29, 2013.

Please share and shop!
The storm isn’t over for thousands and thousands of people,
whose homes and lives were up-ended and will never be the same.
Click here to visit and shop my Valentine’s Day department.Billet-douxGC

If you’d rather just contribute directly to Hurricane Sandy relief,
that would be GREAT!
Go here to shop off Occupy Sandy’s local gift registries.
Your contribution will not only help people rebuild their homes and lives, but at the same time, you will help rebuild local businesses in affected communities.
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The Liebster Blogger Award

02 Wednesday May 2012

Posted by ckswarriorqueen in Advocacy, Art, Awards, Blogging, Cats, Change, Community, Creativity, Decorative Art, Father, Health, Mother, Positive Thinking, Values, Writing, Zazzle

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It’s a lovely thing to have one’s work recognized by one’s peers. I was blessed to have that very thing happen to me this week, when my fellow [sister] Writers’ Digest April Author Platform Challenge participant Kelly Williamson nominated me as “A Writer to Watch”. It was a wonderful surprise, and I deeply appreciate it.

I’ve been following Kelly’s blog, This Is Mine…Seriously, for the last couple of weeks. Her writing about her journey, and her family’s journey, through her mother’s hospitalization is incredibly moving. I would have nominated her for this award, had someone not beat me to it, for her sensitive, honest, introspective voice.

According to the rules, it’s now my turn to nominate five blogs that I follow.
The Liebster Blogger Award Rules are:
1. Thank the one who nominated you by linking back.
2. Nominate five blogs with less than 200 followers.
3. Let your nominees know by leaving a comment on their sites.
4. Add the award image to your site.

The Liebster Blogger Award

~A Writer to Watch~

My nominees for the Liebster Blogger Award are:

  • keynoncoaching ~ Kathy Eynon’s blog about the challenges and joys of the caregiver experience, particularly for those of us in the Sandwich Generation, is a must-read. Her point of view is both personal and universal. Even though both of my parents are gone now, I find her blog to be a source of excellent information and emotional support.
  • Help! Aging Parents ~ Susan’s information-packed blog is a great resource for people who are preparing themselves for becoming caregivers for their aging parents. She has several senior advisers for her blog, and their contributions are very helpful.
  • Caring for Mom ~ A lovely blog where you can share your own caregiving experiences. There is lovely, lyrical writing here ~ I consider this blog to be a caregiver oasis, a place to rest, reflect, and gather strength and sustenance for the next leg of the journey.
  • Leslie Ann Clark Images ~ I’ve known Leslie and her work for more than fifteen years now; we first met on the Illustrators listserv in the mid-90s. She’s come a long way from creating images and wanting to license them, to becoming a published author of children’s books. She is as sweet, kind, and lovely as her work is, and she is a walking, talking, drawing example of the value of persistence and hard work.
  • Drawing a Fine Line ~ Paula Pertile is another friend from the Illustrators listserv days. I am a big fan of her work, which is endlessly creative and unique. She also has a Zazzle shop, which features her work on a range of beautiful and useful gifts and products. Check out her adorable Etsy shop too!

I hope you find my nominees for the Liebster Blogger Award as inspiring as I do!

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