Bordeaux Beauty Remembered — Street Art and Slowing Down and Other Sundry Messages

My puttering toward creative traction this week (see previous post) has included sorting through the “random abundance” of digital photos in my files (“ridiculous abundance” might be a more fitting description).  I was doing this…

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November Puttering and Reflecting and Working Toward Traction. . .

Before we had the Four, the Almost-Seven, and their Dog for the weekend, I was over on “the island” taking a two-day Drawing from Nature workshop, and the days before that were busy as well…

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Art for Matrons? You’ll Be Surprised! (Women are Malleable and Art is Where We Find It)

 In my ongoing attention (see previous post) to the “random abundance” which Oregon writer Kim Stafford (in his book The Muses Among Us) is the matrix out of which “Coherence is born,” I pulled Paul…

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Monday, Against the Self-Critic. . . Try a Little Tenderness. . .

I’m finding it shockingly easy this Monday morning to be hard on myself. So I’m mustering a little resistance, and you’re my witnesses. Let’s be kind to ourselves, shall we? Hard on myself? A plethora…

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A Peek in My Journal. . .

 I’m off to the island today to visit a friend for lunch. No time to chat here, but I thought you might like to see what I’ve been up to in my illustrated journal.  (And…

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