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The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of simplicity. We have a tendency it seems to over complicate our lives and forget what’s important and what’s not. We tend to mistake movement for achievement. We tend to focus on activities instead of results. And as the pace of life continues to race along in the outside world, we forget that we have the power to control our lives regardless of what’s going on outside.
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Wednesday, All Day
I wanted to stick at home today because this morning I started new medicine and wondered how it would kick in. That was the right move but this afternoon was so nice I had to sit outside awhile so I did and I painted my yard tableau. (nice word, eh? Tableau?) Here’s a couple in-progress photos and a final scanned version. Continue reading
Posted in Do the Work, en plein air, gardens and flowers, landscape, taking time to look, the creative process, watercolor
Tagged dothework, garden, landscape, pleinair, process, watercolor
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Monday already.
When I woke up this morning I was an itchy mess. Or at least my neck and chin were an itchy mess. I was going to take some benadryl, but I guess this doesn’t happen often enough (thank goodness) so the first order of business for the day was to drive to Nassau and get some Benadryl to replace what I had with an expiration of 2017. Continue reading
May the Sixth
Feeling a little jet-lagged but I only lost sleep because Mom and I got up to start watching the coronation. Coverage started at 5 am. It was worth doing from a historical-I-might-not-get-to=see-this-again point of view. By the time it was … Continue reading
NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 28
the light is fading •
the robins take to the shrubs •
reciting their day Continue reading
NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 26
Mom and I went to a garden center and had a good time looking at the first wave of plants. I went because I needed a couple “models” for painting now that the daffodils are past, and I need to … Continue reading
Posted in clouds, Do the Work, en plein air, gardens and flowers, haiku, NaPoWriMo, Poetry and Lyrics, taking time to look, the creative process, watercolor, weather
Tagged April, cloudscape, dothework, garden, haiku, landscape, NaPoWriMo, poetry, process, watercolor
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