Today starts my week of bringing in the bacon. It’s the last week of March and I’m at 8% of my goal. It’s going to be a busy week. I hope to reach it sooner rather than later because I also have to put together an Easter fit for Addair Kentucky (I’m thinking of making [...] Continue Reading »
snowing outside, angel baby at home, mama working right beside
0mostly links to delightful places
0Happy Saturday afternoon and welcome to today’s promotional awareness. I dare to write such a post because its fundraising week at WDVX and WUOT, so maybe just maybe you’ll have a little more tolerance for such ploys here. May I draw your attention to a couple of things that are in my own interest and possibly [...] Continue Reading »
still making things : a post that has been cobbled together over 4 months
2I posted these pictures in the middle of August and then wrote this while Levon was in South Dakota and now I’m getting back around to hitting the publish button: I’m just now getting back to the blog to hit the publish button. While Levon is gone we’re trying to evaluate things and have [...] Continue Reading »
artist statement : artifacts of us
4This work explores the confusion, uncertainty, and simple delights of operating within the traditionally feminine roles of homemaker and motherhood. Both the content and process seek to quietly protest the meaninglessness our society attaches to domesticity. The soft pallet, wavering lines, home fabrics, playful decorative marks, rough waxy varnish and wispy cursive text asks for voice without [...] Continue Reading »
sea haze with cape storm
2I heard on a podcast (On Being again, this time an interview with a neuropsychologist Rex Jung) that creativity is the ability to let the knowledge in your brain mingle. Hmmmm. In other, On Being news, I’ve been encouraged to start back on a meditation practice. During my meditation time I’ve been working toward becoming [...] Continue Reading »
resting tonight
0[ from ashley who is listening to Ben Rector (Into the Morning) ]
acknowledging the next thing without following it
2When I nurse Addair Kentucky I listen to podcasts and one of my favorites is On Being. The last one I listened to was with poet/philosopher John O’Donohue. The thing that sticks with me is his definition of beauty. He talks about it as a homecoming. To quote him he says beauty is, “a homecoming [...] Continue Reading »
watching little Tuck chew his fingers and other news
0About to take a walk. I’ve been trying really hard to remain present lately and strolls seem to encourage that. Our neighborhood ice cream man is back for the season and the dogwood tree is in bloom.
living in this season
0“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it…Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well [...] Continue Reading »
and now, it is time for whatever is now
1What a season. Experiencing the gamut of emotions on a daily basis. In this moment, I feel calm and relaxed. I like smelling the air of now and listening to the sounds of here. Things I am grateful for : hazelnuts in the grocery time and flexibility to ponder annoyingly large philosophical questions rain boots sweet Levon [...] Continue Reading »