Melinda VanRy

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    Another summer winding down

    / September 3, 2021

    Let's call this end-of-summer-depressed writer. I have the accoutrements... Short story collection. Moody music. Notebook and writing implement. Old baggy t-shirt and comfy sweats. But let me share some encouragement, too, while I…

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    Eating my way to my best self… No, wait…

    / July 4, 2020

    On the other side of the world or our own backyards, where can we find what we're missing? I'm reading Eat Pray Love.

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    Entering Others’ Stories: A Spoiler-Free Recommendation of Chaim Potok’s The Chosen

    / June 10, 2020

    I've always loved books that let me enter into someone else's experience. No one fits neatly in a box. Check out my mostly spoiler-free recommendation of Chaim Potok's classic and timely The Chosen.

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  • Melinda almost forty years ago
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    Fifty Years in the Future Forty Years Ago

    / April 1, 2020

    The future was bright and my possibilities endless. Yes, the world looked different when I was nine, but I was figuring things out.

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    I was an awkward kid… #amwriting

    / November 2, 2019

    So, I’ve decided to take part in NaNoWriMo, super informally. One of those people who don’t even intend to write a novel, but want to be motivated to write every day. I see…

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  • Blog,  Identity

    And I Know I’m at Least a Little Awesome…

    / October 4, 2019

    The questions caught me off-guard. Got me thinking about what I meant when I said I was whole...

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  • this moment
    Blog,  Identity

    This Moment… Welcome to my morning…

    / September 19, 2019

    A pileated woodpecker makes his presence known, chortling over the carriage house. Like a cat, I follow the languorous patch of sunlight. This is the moment I'm living. Are you living your moment?

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  • Blog,  Identity,  Writing

    In the Middle, Words and Life

    / August 22, 2019

    My words, like my life, are somewhere in a vast middle. Where do I go from here?

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  • Blog,  Identity,  Memoir

    Burning Words

    / August 2, 2019

    Words... So many words. Heavy. Laden with the weight of... me... What could I do with them?

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  • Blog,  Identity,  Writing

    A Porch, an Oriole, and a Comment… Yes, I AM a Writer

    / June 22, 2019

    Who knew that taking to Facebook to share my pleasure over a surprise visit by an oriole would lead to one of those compliments a writer loves.

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Color preference? #artisselfcare #digitaldoodles Color preference?

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Playing… #ilovecolor #colorplay #artisselfcare Playing… 

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Got a late start on the holiday collection challen Got a late start on the holiday collection challenge from @gingiber, but here are two versions of my snowman stand-alone hero illustration, secondary repeating holiday floral pattern, and blender pattern - in the assigned color palette.

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I haven’t posted any art in a while. COVID has m I haven’t posted any art in a while. COVID has me exhausted, but that’s pretty much all it’s done to me. Had to hop on today to post SOMETHING with my new Light Writers Procreate brushes from @paperlike and @everytuesday… I might win a Paperlike screen protector and Apple Pencil grips prize pack… Exciting! Aren’t these effects great?!? 

#lightwriters #procreateit
#digitaldoodles
So many versions of this pattern… but not as muc So many versions of this pattern… but not as much progress in placing elements for the best repeating patterns as I’d like… 

#fern #queenanneslace #starflower #green #abstract #digitalart 
#surfacepattern #surfacepatterndesign #procreateit
It felt like a blessing. As I was doing a little s It felt like a blessing. As I was doing a little study to improve my design skills. That lovely shadow it shared with me as we both basked in gorgeous warm morning sun... I definitely need to use it as inspiration somewhere in a design, as well as its color in a design palette since it decided it would not just let me enjoy it on my papers but also on me myself. 😊❤️

#seekbeauty #findbeauty 
#dragonfly #beautyofnature #getoutdoors 
#surfacepatterndesigninspiration #surfacepatterndesigner
This started out something completely different, t This started out something completely different, then became something about delicate things that live around my yard and woods… It’s a design I love some things about… along with some tweaks that did not do the trick… Thoughts? Opinions?

#surfacepatterndesign
#green #fern #queenanneslace #wildcarrot #starflower #greenandwhite #abstract
#woodlandplants #woodlandplantsart 
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A digital doodle for today… #artisselfcare #cre A digital doodle for today…

#artisselfcare #creativityisgoodformentalhealth #makesomething
#digitaldoodle #doodle #blackandwhite #digitalsketch #flower #abstract
#abstractflower #procreateit #applepencil2
I think the succulents would make cute stickers. W I think the succulents would make cute stickers. What do you think? 

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#digitaldrawing #stickerdesign #surfacedesign
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