about the 
author…JoAnn
I am an accomplished artist, designer and gardener with an admitted compulsion for natural intuitive healing and a spiritual connection with the earth. I am a lifelong serial entrepreneur, a creator of extraordinary ideas …..let the dreaming begin….
The beginning of Greatness
--Carl Jung once said that "your vision will become clear only when you can look inside your heart. Who looks outside dreams; and who looks inside awakens" ...as a woman of many words and ideas--- I have been a dreamer and I have had moments of clarity and in this...
Are you Paying Attention?
Transition...is the process of change....the pain of not knowing....but knowing something must change....the idea of what is gonna happen.. but knowing that all things are possible....the darkness..the fear....rest quiet in the knowing of this- we are always right...
Gratitude
Are you happy? Are we happy people? Do our circumstances determine our happiness? We tend to buy and buy or over achieve trying to fill this void of discontentment.... it is not things or accomplishments that make us truly happy... travels around the world have shown...
Great intentions…
Sometimes a day is over before I even knew it began..it starts with great intentions and sometimes a list~~proceeds to it's already 2:00 and nothing is crossed off my list...the next thing I know its time to cook dinner and put the day to bed! And as I lie in bed all...
The Perfect Dream
Life is FULL of surprises…..and right when you least expect it the world shifts and you find yourself on yet another journey....wandering down a road less traveled and looking at the world through new eyes! Obviously everything we have ever done in our lives began as...
a moment in time
I spend entirely too much time thinking about the big picture…. when right in front of me are so many moments in time that I might just miss if I blink! I admire daily the comings and goings of our customers…I have a chat here and there ~~ one is looking to build a...
‘Fireside Chats’
In our little town I see and feel a common thread of people getting out of the cities and finding a peace here… there is a way of life that is a bit slower and an urge to connect with nature and community. I happen to believe that the Cohutta Wilderness is one...
…Distraction
...a coffee shop journal... It’s a bit hard to focus this morning since I am starring at a wall of pictures, which are all cockeyed (now there’s a word… right?). Ya see I want to get up and straighten them but i fear that it might lead to dusting or straightening the...
There is no plain Jane..
…a coffee shop journal… There is something about that first brew of the day…..the shop fills with that sweet aroma that each and every customer craves that are coffee shop lovers at heart……even those that do not drink coffee are exhilarated by the aroma of fresh...
Under the Weather
...a coffee shop journal... I am a bit under the weather today- I agreed to open the coffee shop so Shana could sleep in… I do believe it might be me that needs to sleep in. It started a few days ago that foggy feeling like something was shifting inside of me. You...