Tag: Lynda Slimmer
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Portrait of nursing
Lynda SlimmerChicago, Illinois, United States Using your mind’s eye, imagine a painting that my husband and I bought several years ago in the Smokey Mountains. An old-fashioned, wooden, crank-type ice cream maker rests in the foreground surrounded by heaps of fresh red strawberries and lava-like streams of thick, pink, strawberry ice cream frothing out of…
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Art and healing pilgrimage to France: The art of re-imagining
Lynda Slimmer I am not an especially creative person. I am a doer; I get things done. I help others channel their creativity into realistic outcomes. However, I am that individual that theologian and ethicist Richard Niebuhr describes as “a poet who creates by taking journeys.” My creative self is most stimulated when a trip…