Care of Soul
How to be Happy in Your Home
Humans are soulful beings and those souls need to be tended to regularly. At Larkin Painting Company, our mission is built upon “care of soul”. You care for soul when you care and tend to your home environment. This can be something as simple as putting fresh color up on your walls to planting a container garden…
Read MoreCare of Soul Encore: Home Soul
Hi Folks, We know that the entrance to your home is not just an opening surrounded by wood, allowing access by swinging a wood or metal panel door, but a passageway where you welcome family and friends. It is a threshold that you crossed as newlyweds or when you brought home your newborn child, an…
Read MoreCare of Soul: Wage Peace
One of the best ways to care for soul is to wage peace. Wage Peace by Judyth Hill Wage peace with your breath. Breathe in firemen and rubble, breathe out whole buildings and flocks of red wing blackbirds. Breathe in terroristsand breathe out sleeping children and freshly mown fields. Breathe in confusion and breathe out maple trees. Breathe…
Read MoreCare of Soul: Embrace Not Knowing
Care of Soul is more about living with the questions rather than having the answers. It’s more about being in the space of “not knowing” rather than the space of “knowing”. Our first instincts and inclinations are to try to think our way out of problems and conundrums, hoping to find security in the right…
Read MoreCare of Soul: The Interconnection of Soul
Often when we think of or speak about “soul”, we are talking about “‘the soul”. The soul is commonly thought to be the spiritual, private immortal part of us. However, Soul is not something that we possess in private. Soul is fundamentally about interconnection. It’s not about independence. In fact, there is no such thing…
Read MoreCare of Soul Encore: Breaking Through the Noise
It seems like the noise, confusion, and tension of the world just keeps building and building. I am back in Maine and contemplating the ever-increasing noise of daily life. It’s the perfect time to look again at how we can break through the noise. I talk a lot about how silence and stillness nourish me. Every…
Read MoreCare of Soul: Soul Guides Our Work
Soul guides our work. At Larkin Painting, we talk about how taking care of your environment supports care of soul. But soul also supports and guides us in our daily lives and in the work that we do. We are craftspeople. We delight in transforming homes, in bringing out the character and unique qualities of…
Read MoreCare of Soul Rewind: Good Morning
Eight o’clock on any given morning typically finds the Larkin Painting team in someone’s home. It is early in the day yet, a time of new beginnings and new adventures out in the world. It is a precious moment. The first thing we like to say to each customer as we meet them in this…
Read MoreThe WE of Us
Some time ago, I wrote about George Washington Carver. He is the patron saint of The Larkin Painting Company. I’d like to say more about why we adopted him as our patron saint. Carver was a botanist and an inventor who was born into slavery in America in 1864. Philip Shepherd in his book New…
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