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Of Witches and Wise-Women
🎃🎃🎃 When I was asked to illustrate Mouse Tales several years ago, I didn’t expect the witch in Hansel and Gretel to challenge me so much. It’s hard to illustrate a witch without falling into old stereotypes. In the illustrations that follow, I explain my thoughts behind the drawings -see for yourself if you think I succeeded! 😱 Dear Friends, Walking through the Halloween aisle recently, this really hit home. Surrounded by life-sized witch figures, I suddenly realized what

Andrea Torrey Balsara
Oct 313 min read
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Feeling the Upheaval? This Might Help.
Dear Friends, How are you feeling these days? If you are like so many people right now, you might feel like you are standing on shifting sands⸺like everything you once trusted or understood about the world is dissolving. It's deeply unsettling. Sometimes, it's downright scary. 😨 The truth is, BIG changes are happening —personally, globally, energetically. You can feel it in your bones. The whole earth feels like it’s in upheaval. And in the midst of all this, finding inner

Andrea Torrey Balsara
Jun 292 min read
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And We Will Light Up This World
Why does the change of a number, 2018 to 2019, feel like a chance to take another try at things that have eluded us in the past? After...

Andrea Torrey Balsara
Jan 1, 20192 min read
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