8 Ways to Achieve Your Resolutions and Make This Your Best Year Yet

8 Ways to Achieve Your Resolutions and Make This Your Best Year Yet

Thank you for reading, sharing, and being an invaluable part of forming our online family this year. We are deeply grateful for your support. May 2019 be a year of greater happiness, good health, and bountiful blessings for you and yours. 1. Volunteer. It’s difficult...
Sister Donna Uses Creativity to Memorialize Mariandale Barn

Sister Donna Uses Creativity to Memorialize Mariandale Barn

For Sister Donna Brunell, barns are much more than places to house livestock or hay. In Sister’s mind, they’re inherently beautiful, simplistic, and even reminiscent of a time when people farmed, had a strong connection to Earth, and lived simply. “I think of barns as...
Sister Mary Ellen’s Art Debuts at Mariandale

Sister Mary Ellen’s Art Debuts at Mariandale

When Dominican Sister of Hope Mary Ellen Wisner, OP was a small child, her mother taught her and her two sisters to draw. As the girls sat around the kitchen table in the early evenings, they slowly learned about the principles of perspective. As such, all three...
The Goal You’re Missing in Your New Year’s Resolution (Part Two)

The Goal You’re Missing in Your New Year’s Resolution (Part Two)

This post is the second in a series of articles highlighting the link between creativity and spirituality. The text below was written by Dominican Sister of Hope Donna Brunell. Three summers ago, I got to explore the beautiful Yosemite National Park. Its vast expanse...