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Home!

Jennifred Jones

Your place of tranquility, peace of mind, rest and safety.

‘Where are you talking about?’ It can be a place in your mind and heart you resort to in turbulent times…a place no one can enter where you can just ‘be’ and contemplate next steps.

It can also be your physical house or dwelling where you close the door and only you and yours can be together to rest and plan and inspire one another.

I suggest it also needs to be a place of beauty…not meaning flowers all over but needs to be tidy and welcoming. How does that happen in my mind? It can be kept tidy and welcoming also. Close the door to thoughts you don’t need to concern yourself with. Leave space in there for growth and development of the good things you want to accomplish. You can’t entertain every thought or video or movie coming along. Listen to good music to help keep mentally sound. Read good books about struggle to victory.

It can be a form of relaxation to putter around your dwelling, keeping things in order, rearranging and revitalizing the look. Figure out what you like, what works for you, what helps you become a better person. So many things sound too simple and insignificant, but the little things grow and either build you up or tear you down.

It’s your home. Take care of it. Make it welcoming to you. Make it your place of refuge, tranquility and hope.

We are Curators

Jennifred Jones

Oxford dictionary states ‘a curator is a keeper or custodian of a museum or other collection’. 

Another quick google search states curators ‘also may research, authenticate, evaluate, and categorize the specimens in a collection.’

Reading from the NYT Licensing  website,  “News curation is the process of finding, analyzing, filtering, preserving and sharing the most relevant information on a specific topic…going through many different sources, choosing the best ones and then sharing these sources in an easy-to-read format…” https://nytlicensing.com/latest/methods/what-is-news-curation/

They are distilling from all the noise, opinions, viewpoints and other ‘fluff’, what really matters… collecting it, authenticating, evaluating, and categorizing it, keeping it, to present it in a useful vantage point for their readers.

We do the same thing in a multitude of categories in our own lives and families…collecting, sorting, analyzing, keeping, preserving and then ‘presenting’ to family and friends what we think and believe and have done. (whether it is a thing, idea or philosophy)

My aim is to be curator of good…any kind of good….helpful things, ideas, peoples, places…I want to find them, collect, analyze, evaluate, keep, preserve and present them to you.

We need to see them, we need to hear them, we need to experience them, we need to support them.

Good builds us up.

What will we choose to curate?

I will begin listing a few good websites, links, blogs, uTubes, etc. I curated and share them with you.
  • This beautiful woman, had her own interior design business and left it to start a non-profit redesigning and beautifying women/children shelters; equipping them with lovely sewing rooms to begin ‘crafting’ a new life filled with hope for them. Her home ground is the Detroit area, but her idea/mission now helps women all across the nation. She has a tremendous staff and volunteers there; however anyone can volunteer to sew needed travel size pillowcases, dolls, capes for kids…check it out. http://www.enchantedmakeovers.org.