by Diana Diehl | Sep 16, 2013 | Misho of the Mountain
Forgive my un-originality! How long may we paraphrase the Bard and not be trite? Forever and anon, I say! There has been in a change in plan. Names, titles, monikers, distinguish us and set us apart, hinting at our origins and our affiliations. A title can cause...
by Diana Diehl | Aug 22, 2013 | Children's Books, Misho of the Mountain, White Storm, The Movie, Writing
White Storm, the Movie, has moved on to the marketing stage and is out of my hands. The Facebook page continues to gain followers (Check out the new HD trailer on You Tube). In the mean time, it’s time for a new project. My new undertaking is a children’s...
by Diana Diehl | Aug 19, 2013 | Journal, Real Life
I am currently three days behind on my Gratitude Challenge. I was to have made public thanks for my food through verbal expression and pictures. I keep forgetting. The verdict is grim: I take food for granted. It’s not that I don’t love and enjoy food. As...
by Diana Diehl | Aug 16, 2013 | Journal, Real Life
Day 1 of Celestine Chua’s Gratitude Challenge. Already the heat is building, the assignments quickly escalating. What must I do today? #Gratitude Challenge Day 1: Write 10 Things You are Grateful For in Your Life That should be easy! The objects of my gratitude...
by Diana Diehl | Aug 16, 2013 | Journal, Journal, Real Life
My Day 0 assignment for Celestine Chua’s Gratitude Challengeis to start a journal. Does it belong here in my business blog? Perhaps not, since many of the things I might write here might not be suitable for public consumption. But I can mark it as private and...
by Diana Diehl | May 15, 2013 | Art, Ceramics, Nature
This is a work that has spanned years and years. I shaped this ceramic pangolin over ten years ago back in Illinois but never fired it. I’d wrapped in damp paper and bubble wrap and packed it away. It lay hidden through three moves. Recently, I created a...
by Diana Diehl | Mar 19, 2013 | Pondering, Real Life
This post is not about creativity, but about the fundamentals further back in the pyramid of life–sheer survival. I’ve got a bad case of skepticism today. What’s the inside scoop on tetracycline? It is “unavailable.” Doxycycline, an...
by Diana Diehl | Mar 1, 2013 | Events, Journal, Reading, Real Life
I love to read aloud. It satisfies a need for performance art, and I can wrap it in the glittering paper of altruism. Education is an honorable endeavor. Reading aloud was a wonderful activity I shared with my sons. At twenty-plus, I can’t glue their feet...
by Diana Diehl | Jan 30, 2013 | Pondering, Real Life
A Galactic Lament I’m hovering at the edge of a newly formed black hole. It’s located in the Milky Way Galaxy, somewhere in a spiral arm (don’t believe them when they tell you they exist only in the center), third planet out from Sol, North American continent,...
by Diana Diehl | Dec 30, 2012 | Journal, Pondering
The year is ending. Some things need to change. Sometimes one must take a stand. Be the change. All that. Tired of the dog (a husky mix with delusions of grandeur) trashing the couch and the boy kitties marking it as their territory every few days, and after endless...
