"What the heck does being a quaintrelle MEAN???"

I get this asked a lot.  Sometimes people proudly say to me, "You know what?  I looked up 'quaintrelle' and now I know a new word.! So thank you, because I had no clue. I thought it was some sort of a mollusk. Thanks for getting me curious." And that's really great. I'm glad to help people expand their vocabulary.

But sometimes they just leave it at that. And that makes me have a sort of faint smile, like if you just smelled something pleasant, but it wasn't extraordinarily redolent; it was fleeting, something left tangling in space.

Friends, there are enough "almosts" and "partiallys" and "um, sortas" out there to (almost) fill up a stadium. I figure it's time to explore the fullness, greatness, the tapestry of possibility again.  And that's why I coach. And I coach the art of the quaintrelle to all. Yes, by definition, a quaintrelle is a woman who "emphasizes a life of passion expressed through personal style, leisurely pastimes, charm, and cultivation of life's pleasures". But it can be anyone, anywhere, who wishes to reach beyond the ordinary, the "almosts" and "just enoughs". To sit in a brilliant tapestry, like the woman in Klimt's masterpiece, "The Woman in Gold" above, a tapestry of their own creation, woven of beauty, art, life, creativity, and passion.

It's a turbulent, scary world out there. Feeling creatively stuck, unfulfilled - that's just scratching the outer shell of most of us. For many, there's a darkness of spirit which digs deeper, where there's no color, no flavor.  While you might think that one shouldn't even think about working art and beauty and texture and aroma and deliciousness into your world right now, while you may be just trying to earn enough to provide, just enough to get by, my answer to that is, "Why wait to explore, to embrace beauty, to delve into the energetic level of creating and expressing?" What we focus on expands. Why not plant a seed of beauty, allow it to germinate into something transcendent, something that will enhance your life, the lives of those around you, the world?

Contact me. Let's set the beauty in motion.