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this photograph is a complete surprise.   I   Saw   nothing like this…..the odd lighting,  the emphasis on certain details

it somehow illustrates for me this sense of how things are in this time.  a time that seems as if i am doing 

nothing

but i continue.   doing nothing.  

nothing…..meaning…..making.

because i am doing nothing,  i am doing all kinds of things…i sorted through the cupboard under the refrigerator,  throwing things out and setting  some  aside to take back down to the storage tubs.   going through all the STUFF in that back room,  same.   Sweeping the webs.   moving saved  mailing containers,  packing materials OUT.  more webs.    Packing up all the laundry.  I'll go on Wednesday.   Watering and Care of B Garden.   Watching Goats behaviors at being let in to Campsite A,  the gate tied open….when do they go,  how often,  how long do they stay.   Who leads the decisions.    Cooking.   

but i think this evening that i AM,  making…..it's redefining,  reconfiguring,  re  re.   re seeing.   it's the 77th year.

a life that is full.   and i still say….nothing.   because i am not making.   

and then,  there is this pic.   

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10 responses to “not all there is”

  1. CatherinE Avatar

    A lot to contemplate here. My energy has gone out of making recently and moved into “moving” and gardening. I’m just more active and exercising more and planting because that’s the season. It’s a lot of effort, but I feel like something is missing. I fantasize a lot about sitting at my art table or stitching or weaving, but it always seems to come last and I run out of time at the end of my day. A puzzling picture (like your surprise photo!).

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  2. Irene Avatar
    Irene

    I, too, have not been making for several weeks now. But I have been doing household stuff, hanging out with the cats, getting to know the horses better, cooking and making “go bags” as fire season has started. If I don’t make anything for a long time, I don’t feel well, so today I am jump starting the creative brain with an online sketchbook course.

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  3. Els Avatar

    Haha, Grace, cameras have a mind of their own sometimes . . .
    LOVED the beautiful pictures of your surroundings in the last few posts ! Mmmmm that YELLOW (when we were visiting my brother last weel the borders of a certain (big) road were yellow like this 🙂 !)
    And your “nothing” is not really nothing haha
    All the best Grace

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  4. Faith Avatar

    I think spring is a “nothing” season. I want to be outside. Even weeding is better than being inside. When I must be inside (it’s raining a lot this spring), the pent up outside energy still makes me want to do things more physical than stitching. Until I get frustrated at not being able to do the specific things I want. Then I just file . . . which is something, yet still nothing.

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  5. Saskia Avatar

    dito here
    Spring lures me to be outdoors

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar

    i am in that same place

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes….i read your words…yes. i don’t feel well…
    without making
    yes. thank you for giving words for it

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    nothing that isn’t. i like this.
    Love you, Els

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    i am Glancing at those bags of scraps. They are
    muttering amongst themselves.

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    not so much for me…i am outdoors year round…there isn’t an indoors time when there are Goats to live with

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