Last week on Instagram, I posted a sketch inspired by a photo of my mother in Greece, circa 1981. Some asked to see the photo itself, so I’ve posted it here, along with my recollections (disappointingly thin, I reproach myself!) of a trip my Mother took — without my Dad — 40 years ago. Also some musings about Time and Memory and Family — so strange from the perspective of a Late Sexagenarian. . . Perhaps you can relate?
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I don’t know about you, but it takes me almost as long to recover my regular daily rhythm and activities AFTER travelling as it did to plan and prepare for the trip. But a little bear has got me back to my knitting, at least. And reminded me that I still haven’t shown you another Little Creature that swam off my needles before we left mid-April.
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As I prepare for a Sketch Journal workshop next month in Sicily (Squee!), I’m paging back through a short series I’ve been sketching in my Fabiano Artist’s Journal, a series of Outfit of the Day Self-Portraits. Maybe you’d like to look over my shoulder as I turn the pages? Click through for more, please.
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The last few months have buffeted us in so many ways. Many of us are finally making tentative steps back to lives closer to what we lived pre-Covid. And as I’ve been doing that, I’ve noticed some tendencies. As well, of course, I’ve been chastened, sobered, by world events. And trying to balance between reaching out, re-connecting. . . and holding space for some quiet. Perhaps you’re going through something similar? Click through to read more.
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Doing the best we can in difficult times, sometimes we’re lucky enough to stumble into patches of encouraging beauty, or of the sweetly ordinary . . . And then to turn this into hope, if we can? Mood is an issue this week, but the post arrives with compensatory images. Click through to see what I mean. . .
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