In a few weeks, Jacki Kellum will begin moving her arts studios and school of arts to 26 South Main in Water Valley, Mississippi. Jacki Kellum has been teaching a variety of arts skills for over 50 years, and while she is opening her space to several other arts and writing instructors to share their…
Month: July 2025
Art School and Arts Event Venue Opening in Water Valley, MS – Jacki Kellum Studios
Things are about to get busy for me. In about 3 weeks, I’ll be transferring part of my art studio to a dream space in the Historic Main Street District of Water Valley, MS. Finding any commercial rental property in Water Valley is difficult, but finding property on Main Street is almost impossible. I’ve been…
How to Create a Gesture Drawing: Draw Daily
Gesture Drawing Is A Quick Drawing Created to Capture the Essence or the Feel of a Subject. In Gesture Drawing, You Do Not Pick Up Your Pen:
It’s Okay to Pray for Yourself – Anne Lamott Quotes about Prayer – Help, Thanks, Wow
Recently, I participated in a prayer group, and one of the first orders of business was that of adding names to a prayer list. We had several categories to add names of people who needed prayer, and when every category was mentioned, I thought to myself, “I need to add my own name. I need…
Pray Even When You Are Desperate, Dark, and Angry – Start Where You Are – Anne Lamott on Prayer: Help, Thanks, Wow
I cannot tell you how many times I have walked into the hair salon with a hat on my head, begging the stylist not to run and hide at the sight of my hair, This is sort of the same behavior as when I know my housekeeper is coming, and I stay up all night…
Prayer with Anne Lamott’s Book: Help, Thanks, Wow – Pray in Private
Yesterday, I decided to offer a special online event featuring Anne Lamott’s book about prayer, Help, Thanks, Wow. That decision came after I shared my experience with Light in my garden and afterward when I came inside and randomly fell on the page in Lamott’s book where she talks about Light. I promise…
Preparing for Harvest with Anne Lamott – Help, Thanks, Wow
Occasionally the signs align perfectly, and an idea comes to me for a new online event. Today is July 1, and I went out to my garden and began harvesting from my garden this morning. As I set my newly gathered vegetables on my porch table, I noticed nearby my new copy of Anne Lamott’s…
Who Were the Pharisees? Jesus Criticized the Pharisees for their Hypocrisy
I’m not sure when I first learned about the Pharisees, but for a long time, I have lived in fear of focusing on cleaning the outisde of my cup while neglecting the cleaning of my cup’s inside. [Matthew 23:25-26 and Luke 11:39] I’ll talk more about this later, but for now, suffice it to say…
Seeking God’s Light – In My Garden & In My Life
I started my morning today by weeding the stand of weeds in the back of my garden, I wanted to stop and look at all my flowers first, but I live in Mississippi, and I know from years of doing garden choresin the scorching heat that I HAD to do some weeding first, As I…