Skiing
Yesterday was a perfect day to do a little cross-country skiing in Acadia. It feels strange to post about yesterday sometimes. I feel like Grace “I’m not good at yesterday.” Today feels quite different,...
Category: Making
Thought feathers
Drawings are thought feathers, they are ideas that I seize in mid-flight and put down on paper. Louise Bourgeois I took a Zoom class yesterday with London Drawing Group. “Louise Bourgeois: Doodling and the...
Everything’s slow
Things are slow here. I guess that’s okay. I wanted to make some progress on a few projects today, but I also wanted to have some downtime. I think I need some extra rest....
Revealing
The light snow that fell emphasizes the stillness of today. It sits quietly on everything. The pea trellis shows off its folds and turns. It’s tall, taller than I can reach, and the fencing...
Sense of smell
This morning I made muffins and soup stock. The muffins were a good way to use up pumpkin and applesauce from the fridge. The stock used up a lot of vegetables that are past...
Wintry mix
Freezing rain. The car was coated with a layer of ice. We had to scrape the windshield before heading to town for groceries. The weather forecast calls for a “wintry mix.” I always pause...
Meandering toward 2023
It’s been a strange week. I don’t work anymore “outside the home” as they used to say, but I still have a sensation of being off work. I feel on hiatus, yet everything continues...