Hello Blog Friends! I do miss posting here as I am spending more time over on Substack. You may also be signed up there as well, and I’m grateful for that. Really and truly…your email-box doesn’t know whether you receive a post from me via Substack or via my blog. On the receiving end of things … Continue reading Returning Home
More than ever before, we need to be making things. This is not merely to while-away the time or to keep our minds off of all the sad news and the what-will-happens. There is an inherent belief in creating something that says, if only in a small way, “Tomorrow will come. A new day will … Continue reading Tomorrow
There is something about our current state of affairs that feels like a suspension, hiatus, time-out, or an extended stay-cation. It’s as if the world has been put on hold and we are hovering in place, holding our breath, until we have made it over the bridge, or until we are told we can come … Continue reading Change
“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.” -Khalil Gibran I am finding this to be true. Each and every tree...no matter how trimmed, blighted, hacked off, or allowed to grow free...speaks in verse or rhyme a tale of life and love, beauty and grace. Evening sky behind treeline... The limbs are like … Continue reading Poems
You might enjoy meandering over to my drawing/art blog to read about an amaryllis that's been blooming above me on the piano. It certainly speaks of knitting too! Click Here to read it! Have an Artful Day!
From where I sit, here in my studio sunroom, an amaryllis blooms above me. It sits on the piano grinning broadly at me while I knit, draw, write. It has been there a while, maybe a month or more. For the longest time, an inch of green shoot sat nestled in the loam. I watched … Continue reading Where I Sit…
As each day marches on beyond the health ordeal I've recently gone through, I begin to see some of the shake down or repercussions of it all. It might be described as having experienced a sifting of sorts, and what remains in the sifter is the pure wheat. It's an ongoing process though, and I'm … Continue reading An Artful Life
