Free Me | Joss Stone {Tunes On Tuesday}

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | writing + creativity

My official 2012 anthem.  I’m feeling rather invincible this year, if I do say so myself. Lyrics “And if you find it hard to follow me If I loose you in my creative stream Than you only got to raise your eyes And see me fly Don’t tell me that I won’t I...

Born To Hum | Erin McKeown {Tunes on Tuesday}

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | writing + creativity

http://youtu.be/DdnI8K5PQPc Lyrics Erin McKeown is some kind of magic…..

Go Now and Live {Fine Art Print}

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | writing + creativity

These words were written four years ago, at the junction between the end of one life and the beginning of another.  They were my path to boldness when I felt like hiding, solace in the midst of pain, and a reminder to keep moving forward.  Since then they have...

my muse

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Poetry + Verse, writing + creativity

{my muse} my muse she is awake and she is calling me coaxing tempting in a seductress voice dripping sweet with honey and sharp with desire there is a tug and my words they have been gathering in the dusky light and they have been swirling liquid whirlpools forming...

let her doodle

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Mothering + Family, writing + creativity

she doodles everywhere. faces and shapes and lines. simple and complex. fantastical, nonsensical free flow and elaborate, deliberate worlds. on letters, and envelopes, and the back of her sisters advent calendar. on the clipboard attached to the wall above my desk. on...

art is always real

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Mothering + Family, writing + creativity

We were in Julie’s room one night, my eldest daughter and I.  I wanted to show her how the canvas painting she had carefully labored over for Julie’s Christmas gift was framed and hung on the wall. I said, gazing at her masterpiece with no small amount of motherly...