Christa Wells

Writing and singing when I should really be sleeping…

Category: Mentoring

Masterpiece Project 2011: Someone You Know Needs This Camp

Today I repost my reflections on the time I spent in 2010 with high school students at one of the best creative arts camps out there, along with a note written by one of our students. This is where you’ll find me every late July and where I am personally encouraged and challenged by an [...]

In the Image of the MAKER…with Ann Voskamp!

*Friends!  Thanks for spreading the word about this little retreat.  We SOLD OUT in 4 DAYS!  Wow.  Please add your name to the waiting list if you missed it (you never know) – and stay tuned.  We are working on the possibility of adding another date for this retreat in the next few months.  Maybe [...]

To the young writer…

(Photographs in this post were a gift from my young reader/listener/writer friend Abby Ang.  Enjoy Abby’s words here.) *Adding here to my original post, based on an interaction with a lovely young lady I hope to one day meet. She wrote: At each stage of this journey, it seems the more productive I am…the more [...]

Surprised by LIFE

It wasn’t entirely selfless.  Obviously, I enjoy food, friends, music-making and a great speaker as much as the next girl. Nicole and I had been talking for a while about how amazing it would be to invite a bunch of chicas to get together for some sort of retreat, create our own event, including–but not [...]

Like fine wine…

On Monday I turned 37. (That’s me, second from the right, the day Mandy came home.) This is nearly impossible to fathom, because wasn’t it last week I was celebrating my 12th birthday in Kaiserslautern, Germany?  Weren’t we riding the train, my aunt and grandmother and two girlfriends and I, trying on new clothes in [...]

Masterpiece Project 2010: Frame the Clouds

I want to tell you about Masterpiece Project 2010. Our theme this year was “Frame the Clouds,” and you’ll just have to believe me when I say I did not have anything to do with that. But I was humbled, so grateful that the concept resonates with others. The staff at Masterpiece are not all [...]

Where deep gladness and deep hunger meet…

It’s obvious she has the bug.  She is 6 and can’t keep from it.   Small brown fingers push the sound from the ivory and I watch her do what I do. Play.  Evaluate.  Try a new way.  Repeat.  Build a pattern, wonder where it must go next. She is emotive.  Sometimes loud.  Often tragic (her [...]

what it means to be “Held”

(This was originally a “page” on my former blog…since I don’t yet have a place for it in this new blog format, I thought I’d share it again as a “post.”) I’m sure I have it documented somewhere, maybe on a piece of notebook paper, but I can’t recall it.  I do know it was [...]

you can do a lot of things…

“You don’t HAVE to do anything, but you CAN do a lot of things.” She was 16-years-old and said it with a comical grin, referring to my dilemma over whether or not to feel obligated to patch a small hole in my skirt.  She’s a free spirit. I have never been as free as I [...]

This Old Dress

My favorites are 6-year-old skirts from TJ Maxx, one of which has a gaping hole in the top layer, soft t-shirts, and a dress from Old Navy whose elastic is stretched to the point of irrelevance. I’d wear them every day if I could get away with it.  (I nearly do.) The idea is to [...]

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