Paula Diaz, MFA

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Hey all! I have been off FB since early July and, actually, still am, but here's a blog. Life is changing in August--I'm trying to figure out how to keep up!

The one with the coffee & the Jesus — capturing device My two-day work week, like posting on Wednesdays, is an ideal, a goal, a good idea. But I don’t actually do it; I just say I do.

Last call for the 13 Holy Nights--we start in 90 minutes.

2022 was more of the same. Where we expected newness, we got repetition--2022, get it? 2023 breaks the pattern.

Join me for a practice to find, claim, and commit to a new vision for the new year. Please click the link below to register.

13 Holy Nights — capturing device At the winter solstice, the enfolding darkness, the crystalline air, and the snow-stilled landscapes speak in metaphors, messages to help us release this year and welcome a new one.

Hi all! Welcome to Advent!

Oh lordy, it's Advent, people! Do you know where your small boxed chocolates are?
www.capturingdevice.com/advent-calendar-22/https/wwwcapturingdevicecom/blog-page-url/2022/12/1/december-1-this-better-be-worth-it

December 1: this better be worth it — capturing device Is it gauche to quote oneself? I suppose it depends on who you believe is the ultimate source and owner of the words. I spent today teaching students that the author doesn’t matter and, at the same time, berating them on their use of proper citation. Yes, the author is not here—we are just “wa...

Since I don’t really know how to use Facebook, I should probably stop using Facebook.

I'm going on a cold turkey techcation — capturing device Google “digital detox”, “phone diet”, or “technology break” and you will get millions of hits (but if you search for techcation, you won’t get anyone using the word the way I am). I have a few different approaches to weaning myself from technology bookmarked but really the only approac...

This week's blog asks, "How do you take up space in the world and how do you protect the space that is yours?" With my recent hip replacement, I am reconsidering how the space around me, the space of my website, and the space of my body.

There is no box — capturing device Boundaries create a safe space that I expand and fill and, in doing so, I re-outline the space I take up in the world.

Summer is around the corner. Are you ready to make the most of it? Come to Camp Summer and design a summer to keep with you all year. 2 sessions available: Sunday, May 22, Saturday, June 4! Sign up today!

Camp Summer — capturing device It’s that time of year in which we throw away regularity, relax the dress code, and create new ways of doing things. If you think about it, we have been doing all of that since March of 2020, but it hasn’t really made it feel like summer.

https://www.capturingdevice.com/weeklyblog/https/wwwcapturingdevicecom/blog-page-url/2022/4/20/ideas-are-cutting-instruments

Ideas are cutting instruments — capturing device Lakoff points out, “metaphors are more than mere language and literary devices, they are conceptual in nature and represented physically in the brain.” In other words, words take form through our bodies and are expressed as metaphors in our minds.