DIANE O'CONNOR

In my post, Under the Desk, I talked about the awareness I had about communism as a child. I also shared how life went on, and most of us didn't think about it much in the busyness of day to day life. As the years went on, I wondered about all kinds of "seemingly disconnected" things that were taking our country off track. And then I realized that these things were actually connected. Connected to an agenda that was "hidden in plain sight." About five years ago I heard about

I remember the threat of communism as a child . . . and the possibility of physical attack. The cold war started in 1947. It was a stand off between the US and the Soviet Union with constant tension between communism and freedom. Our parents had returned from World War II, having experienced all the danger and destruction of war. And the attack at Pearl Harbor was a reminder that our country was not immune from physical attack. The thing is, I don't ever remember even talking

I've been reading John 15 over and over again the past few days, and I remembered something that happened to me a few years ago . . . I was flying home from my daughters house. I love flying! I always have a pad of paper out because the Lord often gives me great ideas when I’m seat-belted in and He has my undivided attention. That day I was thinking about Leader to Leader and all the wonderful gems the Lord was giving me—and I was racking my brain for ways to get the word o

There has been so much information shooting across our airwaves over the past few months between COVID and the current unrest that it makes my head hurt! I realized that with all the talk of white privilege I tend to vacillate between feeling guilty that I’m white and being defensive about it. Time to think it through . . . What do I know to be true? I've been asking God to shine a spotlight on my heart and show me what is right and true about myself and about the world we li

After completing my first piece during my Fabulous Florals class with Elizabeth St Hilare, I decided I wanted to do something in a blue jar . . . I thought it would be fun to do some poppies and daisies to hang above my sink —I love red, white and blue in the summer. [BTW - if you are interested in seeing some demos of the paper collage techniques, check out Elizabeth's You Tube channel for her Tutorial Tidbits] I used an inexpensive birch wood panel - 1/4 inch - to fit int