Wednesday. Watching the rain from the porch with Sprout. Newly mowed grass, in heaps. Tired. So tired, after a night awake with a restless babe. Fresh jam. Scattered thoughts. Trying to make sense with words with some people, including with my mother, and while my heart is there, and hers is, it doesn’t always come out right. You know? The words crisscross like a subway map, and you find you can’t always get off where you intend to.
A headache. Raw almonds on honey toast. The first zinnias blooming in the garden. And already the day is over and it’s time for bed. But before sleep, some things to share:
First: some small art. Little tiny pieces that I am putting in a little gallery for sale. I know. It’s been years, literally, since I sold art here, with the time away from teaching my creative well has been filling and I’m excited to start sharing little pieces with you. Please go look. It’s just a start. An inkling. We’ll see where it goes.
The pieces I’ll be putting up first are in a songbird series. I have this gorgeous old vintage book about songbirds and I’m giving its pages new life with little paintings of the birds that have been making me so happy this summer.
Also, I’ve been loving…this gorgeous little journal of random things.
These photos.
This little story.
And these fascinating little films.
What’s inspiring you?
so pretty … i love your paintings.
i know exactly what you mean – being overtired has caused me to be completely oversensitive to other people’s comments lately – especially my mother’s, who has a way of pushing buttons i didn’t know were there.
sprout teething still? poor baby. good thing we don’t remember any of that. take care of yourself.
the cardinal one is my favorite. there’s something very nostalgic about it.
“Trying to make sense with words with some people, including with my mother,” = constantly for me. Some days are better than others.
Inspiration: currently saved links as a draft and getting ready to post.
It is so inspiring to see you getting back to what you love! Your paintings are so lovely, and your snapshots of the good things are always what I need. So, today and for a while now, YOU are inspiring me. To embrace the little, good things of everyday, to live in the moment, and to have gratitude first, before all else.
Loved the links too!
Thanks.
thanks for the links, love the songbirds, simply beautiful.
I’m struggling to find my artistic ways these days, though there is no lack of inspiration.
Full time living in 100 sq ft space isn’t the best in terms of what i love to do best, mixed media. I need to leave stuff out, layer, more layers… just not happening.
So i’m experimenting with some different forms of creating, still not finding one that fits, but am inspired to keep trying.