mostly did OutSide things…collecting dog shit,  cleaning water tubs,  rearranging Goat Yards,  clearing the big back gate in so Rebecca and i can switch out futon couch frames.  But before all that i 

 

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finished my Inktense Library.   I have that 72 color set and as you can see if you double click,  it's excessive and unnecessary.   Even tho it's quite grand looking at it here.   And i smile at the differences in me and Liz.   I had to put stones because i didn't cut the freezer paper well enough and my edges are curling.   It's on tea dye muslin.  Have never used just white with Making,  so did the library on what i might really use.  It makes me Happy to look at it.

I will look more and pick out the colors that i think i might really use and bundle them separately and maybe put the ones i don't think i will back into the really great tin they came in.  Who knows.

and i ordered  Elizabeth Gilbert's Big Magic today to send to the California people,  which are really everyone.   Grandson Jeff,  the father of baby Fate is now Home with them.  Going between Alyssia's and his mother's homes for time being.  He is GOOD and solid and looking forward.  I will also send him drawing pencils and micron pens.  He has a true Gift for drawing.  Always has.  I hope that he uses the stuff,  AND the book,  no matter how kind of superficial it might be?, i don't know cause i have not read it, but i hope he uses it all to Hold him as he works toward a more solid self.  Drawing can do that.  I am sure of it.  And he CAN draw.  And he can draw with Alyssia's kids.  It would be his gift to them.  

And so we go.

 

 

 

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18 responses to “Opening to how things are just Fine”

  1. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    very grand record of all the colors. . .and I love the stones in place. . .drawing can hold us. . .yes, I hope he allows himself the time for that.

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  2. grace Forrest Avatar

    he draws. he always has. But i hope i can help him understand how
    Strong it can be, how we can go to our creativity to sustain us
    through whatever comes our way. I really believe that. It’s a hard
    thing to convince others of, tho, it seems…and i wonder why????
    it’s so just Right There, so just FREE, so just at our finger tips,
    our Heart tips….

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  3. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    for what it’s worth. . .I think of it as fine tuning all our best intentions. . .bringing them down. . .right through our fingertips. . .making them visible and manifest

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  4. grace Forrest Avatar

    what it’s worth…Worth Everything. I think it’s where it’s
    at. Fingertips. Touching.

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  5. pardalote Avatar

    I’m glad to hear of how Fate is going, thank you for sharing. I think of him often.
    And drawing, yes. I have a wild brother who draws. I’m not sure if drawing helps him through dark times, but I usually choose his gifts to be drawing-related. I mean the gifts to say to him that his drawing is important, even if others tell him otherwise. But his drawing is part of him, you know?

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  6. deb lacativa Avatar

    for the uncertain artist, take a look at “the Creative License” by Danny Gregory. I remember the first time I read the opening chapter, I cried.

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  7. Liz Avatar

    Different … that’s what makes it fun!

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  8. Dana Avatar

    The test colors are so enticing all together. I’m glad your grandson draws…I think making things is good for everybody. Big Magic is very encouraging. They will like it.

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  9. julie Avatar

    Do you ever feel pulled to move to California, to be among them?

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  10. grace Avatar

    i feel like i
    should
    and we know about that word.
    there will most likely come a point when i will need to
    decide…and it will be the most difficult decision i can
    imagine…
    that drawing about the clothesline in the leafy nest of the mind…Cynthia’s pigs….it’s about that….

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  11. grace Avatar

    i do know. and to acknowledge that can make things
    occur that would not be able to otherwise. It can be
    a really personal thing if it needs to be.
    You are a good Sister.

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  12. grace Avatar

    circling back around

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  13. grace Avatar

    it’s a book for the Household

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  14. Mo Crow Avatar

    if I could only keep one book to sustain me for the rest of my life it would be The Zen of Seeing by Frederick Frank as it has for all my adult life

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  15. grace Avatar

    yes. they have known this book all their lives, the
    grandkids…Alyssia and Jeff.
    We sat many times, looking at the drawings, thinking about
    him, writing and drawing.
    also my son

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