red paint studio in New Mexico — art class
4TH of JULY. ...if you can..keep moving ahead
I've never been good at "between" ..between boyfriends, between hair styles, between viruses..between is waiting for something better to happen. No..make something happen or start something else. Indecision is allowing time and fate to conjure up events and a highway leading me in "their" direction..not my choice. I will move forward..chopping down the overgrowth as I go. I have met "time" and he sometimes lies when I stop to ask for directions. Truly... living in and through this political and medical event will be a feat of strength and tenacity. Choose wisely. Fearfulness creates very strange monsters indeed..and some won't...
full moon and yippie coyote!
Sleeping with windows open most of the year has some drawbacks.. full moon brought coyotes out to hunt and yell...and I wonder what other creatures are awake and on alert. I'll see lots of little foot prints in the sand come morning. A decent rain fell a few nights ago..and the desert willow sends out some last flowers for the hummingbirds. Are they just being kind? the trees I mean..kindness if given will be reciprocated and surprisingly not always in the way you'd expect. In the studio I'm working on landscapes with mostly sky and color. I've never been fond...
My list of good things
I start lists everywhere I am..to do lists with columns of "house" "work" and "other". My " good things" list is mostly a morning vocation and exists fleetingly in my head..and then..is gone. Good things Roadrunner Hairy Woodpecker Two grown rabbits light rain fell in night and rain barrel is full again purple sage in bloom first Sandhill Cranes flying along the Rio Grande..migration has begun. fish painting done for a friend When I was a kid and my parents would start a yelling match that I could not bear to witness ..I learned that nature and art could take...
after the summer heat
I know..what do we do to help this feeling of helplessness..anger..despair.
