Materfamilias Writes

Bringing the Outdoors In . . . In to my Sketch Journal, that is. . .

Bringing the Outdoors In . . . In to my Sketch Journal, that is. . .

  I told you I’d be back soon to share a couple of pages from my sketchbook, and here I am. . .  I’ve been getting outside more often lately, thanks in part to the…

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Tea,Teddies, Memories, and Snail Mail: Art Play doing Memory work

Tea,Teddies, Memories, and Snail Mail: Art Play doing Memory work

So . . . . I first posted about my little Tea-themed project of 2021 back in early February — that post includes a tea-themed page from the January 3rd entry of my sketch journal.…

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My Light-Bulb Moment of the Week. . . Of Revelations and Recalibrations

My Light-Bulb Moment of the Week. . . Of Revelations and Recalibrations

 You may laugh at me, but here’s a “true confession”: I had a light-bulb moment the other day, in which I realized that “Hey, I’m doing a lot, verging on too much.”  The various activities…

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Of Gifts, Friendship, Snail Mail, and SerendipiTea

Of Gifts, Friendship, Snail Mail, and SerendipiTea

 As I alluded to, partially and briefly,  in an earlier post, I’ve been thinking lately about the ways that our capitalist economy conditions us to evaluate our activities, the use of our time, our “production,”…

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Tea Time in my Personal Journal Pages, A Little Project Evolving. . . .

Tea Time in my Personal Journal Pages, A Little Project Evolving. . . .

A week ago I was maundering and wittering here about whether or not I was wasting my time when I engaged in the child’s play of cutting, pasting, drawing, and painting.  My bigger concern, truly,…

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