by Emily P Freeman | Dec 4, 2015 | A Million Little Ways, art, courage, freedom
I’ve been listening to Elizabeth Gilbert’s book, Big Magic, in my car as I drive around town this week. She has a fantastic reading voice which is a relief after the last book I listened to in my car (Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters –...
by Emily P Freeman | Oct 23, 2015 | art, music, writing
We spent our Wednesday night at the Taylor Swift 1989 World Tour. I can’t remember the last time I was at a giant concert like this, if ever honestly. But it was fun to go with my girls and their friends. Still, when I got home and tucked the girls in hours past...
by Emily P Freeman | Sep 4, 2014 | art, courage, Hope*ologie, marriage
They had a dream to create a place where they could take the old, beautiful things – the wooden chairs and side tables and other broken pieces people tend to throw away – and give them new life. They wanted a place to do what they had always done: make the used into...
by Emily P Freeman | Aug 12, 2014 | art, hope
In the quiet of this morning, before the sun comes up behind the trees in our yard, I acknowledge how very little I know. Because the pain in the world is sometimes too much to bear and our backs can bend heavy beneath it, rounding over and caving in like a tired...
by Emily P Freeman | Apr 29, 2014 | art, books I've read (or want to read), courage, freedom, imperfection, sisters
I’m firmly convinced our genius is at least partially coded into our childhood play. Want to get an idea of how those first graders will change their world? No need to read their spelling words. Just show up at recess. But I don’t know about all that yet,...
by Emily P Freeman | Apr 10, 2014 | art, faith, hope
During the last several months, Annie’s now-famous statement we will make art has been working its way deeper into me as I’ve been trying new things and struggling through the learning of them. I have spent a lot of time thinking, writing, staring,...
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