You may be wondering who Macy is, from a couple of posts ago with her crocheted Christmas trees. If you'd like a Christmas treat, put the kettle on and sip some tea while you read about Macy and her making heart. Begin here, then here, then end here. These three "chapters" about Macy will be … Continue reading Macy’s Merry Wish
Category: Artful Living
The Violence to Healing
Won't you pop over to my other blog Drawn2Life? I really should have posted it here on this blog since it's a knitterly post! But I tend to put my writerly thoughts over there...hmmm...I think that may need to change!:)
The Violence to Healing
I have been, for the last two days or so, feeling so so much better! Not only better from the intense pain I came home from surgery with, but better than I felt PRIOR to surgery! It has made me think about how I got to this. I hold knitting needles in my hands. And it's … Continue reading The Violence to Healing
Seeing the Negative as Positive
When we set out to sketch, we typically draw the positive shapes we see before us...leaves, stems, vase or planter. This is normal and natural and we do well to follow the contours of these things. But we can also look for, and draw, the negative shapes, the space in between all the positive shapes. In … Continue reading Seeing the Negative as Positive
December!
I can't believe it's December! Can you? We decorated our home yesterday, putting up the Frasier Fir and my little white studio tree. I love hanging favorite ornaments from years gone by. The above drawing was made a couple of years ago when I got this lovely sparkly bird that clips onto a branch. I … Continue reading December!
Thankful
I wonder sometimes if this word may become worn out. Like taffy pulled too thin, or chocolate pie eaten too much, we hear this word bantered around in various ways and forms. It's always an exhortation, an encouragement, a command to be more thankful for what we have, where we are in life, even to consider … Continue reading Thankful
The Measure of a Life
The true measure of an artist's life is NOT *in how many drawings one makes *nor in how "good" they are *nor how much money they fetch... ...but rather in a stouthearted search for beauty in everything: *in the little as well as the big *in the mundane and the magical *in calm as well … Continue reading The Measure of a Life
Counting Gifts
On my walk, jewels mark my path as if Royalty had just passed by. Gold, ruby, emerald in every shade...pooled under trees, scattered across the sidewalk, huddled in patches along the street. Hovering gray skies served only to heighten their jeweled glow. I genuflect to pick them up, one by one. Each a different shape. … Continue reading Counting Gifts
Mondays
Mondays come around with shocking regularity. Don't you think so too? For some, the weekend is a time to slow down, to rest a bit from the work-week, to have a bit of fun. For me, weekends are hard, harried living. Oh sure, it's all good stuff. But come Monday morning I feel I need … Continue reading Mondays
Harvest
If I look back over this year as if my life were a field that should produce a crop, it appears at first glance to be spare and thin. Surgery in June and its aftermath, from which I'm still recovering, makes me think the bumper crop will be sparse this year and for good reason. Yet … Continue reading Harvest