A quick Postcard from Palermo

Sending you a few quick postcards because the AirBnB we are staying in here in Palermo is currently without WiFi. Our landlord is very apologetic but apparently is changing service providers and we are caught…

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What I Wore: The Sketchbook Edition

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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Picking Up the Pace?

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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The Tuesday Report. . .

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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What I’ve Been Doing, Lately. . .

Busy with all the usual ’round here, but also making plans for some upcoming travel, short trips and longer ones, regional road-trips and trans-Atlantic flights. But close to home, some simple pleasures for the days when I need to keep it easy. . . Click through to find more (a very good, very easy chocolate cake recipe; a TV series to veg in front of; some music to get your toes tapping

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