Well, I've spent the summer painting. Mostly big paintings on canvas but also 24x18" ones on paper. I really get into a groove once I get going. Functioning by 8am, 2 hours at my journal drinking coffee and counting my blessings (or untying the knots in my thinking), then breakfast and to work. That's the way it's supposed to go but I have a family and life intrudes.
We turned the clocks back this weekend and I noticed the persimmon tree is nearly bare now. In the summer the fruit trees looked big and lush, but now their small bones are revealed. There's some kind of metaphor in there but I'll leave it alone.
John is turning soil to plant garlic this week. I used to think gardens went to sleep when the freezing weather killed everything above ground. But no. Garlic will be planted and next month fava beans will go into the ground. So even as winter death lies all around us, beauty changed and laid to rest, the succession is already in motion for what comes next. Life is always starting anew.
I wont make this too long. I just wanted to check in. To say I am still here, still thinking of so many of you that I've walked beside and many that I haven't; to say that as long as I am here I'll probably want to talk to you. My life is pretty solitary by choice but when I am in your presence you have all of me. Because I do love people. As time passes that feeling of appreciation increases.
One more thing. I've decided to draw and collage in my journal again. For the last 3 years I've used it mostly to catalogue my paintings and "progress" whatever that is. But this weekend I worked in the journal like I used to and felt a burst of joy that told me this was one thing from my past that I shouldn't have put aside. So we'll see how it goes. Smaller works for awhile. More journal art. Sounds good to me.
xo
8 comments:
Judy, a lovely post. I just loved and laughed at you last sentence. So you.
Love to know your journal found you again. It was where I first learned about your art, way back when you shared it so generously in Blogland. Wishing you joys and discoveries there again in this new season. Love and light, sweet Judy Blue eyes! ❤️❤️❤️
Juicy work and lovely post, reminds us that even in fallow times, there is work happening.
xo Ruth
I just asked on FB this morning if blogging was dead. Glad to see your post.
Hello Journaling Judy! Love how you express yourself!
Thanks for sharing about the underground activity winter does for us! Thank you for your journaling example I still journal regularly thanks to you! Love seeing you here! Xox
Great post. Enjoyed reading right to the bottom (mentioning that because as a blogger myself I know how hard it is to engage people for that long lol). Also love love the painting at the start of the post. To die for!
You inspire with your words and your work Judy!
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