Wherever I am in the world I always walk the neighborhoods. It’s not the grand tourist destinations but the quiet pedestrian scenes that speak to the artist in me who will gladly forego the museum history lessons to become a brushstroke within the landscape of living, breathing art. When I work with a new client on reimagining home I always consider the neighborhood. “What can we learn from what surrounds you?” I ask. The question is often met with a period of silence and then a response that forms the question, “You mean the people or the homes?” This recent...
The Sanctuary Living credo has never been more true—The REAL YOU expressed.
There have been so many good reasons to become sweatsuit versions of our authentic selves.
YET, in the process, have we censored the very best part of who we really are?
No one can take away what inherently resides within you—A perspective, a way of being and seeing that is different from the person who lives next door or across the world. It’s time to shed the sweatsuit to reveal THAT you, The one who is unafraid to live the hopes and dreams of a new tomorrow, in spite of everything…and maybe [even more powerfully] because of it.
All of us are going through something. Some just more visible than others—Janene Kraft, Sanctuary Living
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The Neighborhood
Wherever I am in the world I always walk the neighborhoods. It’s not the grand tourist destinations but the quiet...
THE WELL-Imagined life
Some words are like a Rorschach. At their mere mention particular images jump to mind. Our perspective shapes the pictures,...
healing things
I grew up in Kansas City on the site of an abandoned hunting lodge. In the long, hot, sticky summer,...
TRANSFORMATION SEASONS
I am accustomed to drywall. In fact, if you ask my favorite smell, freshly hung wallboard would be at the...