AI is not invited to my Morning Pages

AI is not invited to my Morning Pages

I’ll never ask AI to summarize my morning pages.

Of course I repeat myself – my worries – my dreams

That’s the point.  The repetition is the key to what is unresolved, to what is important.

The path to change – from the pen – to the page – to the heart

What Makes an Heirloom?

What Makes an Heirloom?

When does a quilt, or anything else, become and heirloom?

Recently I passed along this double wedding ring quilt that I made 30 years ago in the first year of my marriage to a couple just starting out in theirs.

It never had a label before, but the one I added said it was made with love and patience and persistence.  And it occurred to me that I meant the quilt and the marriage both.

Dynamic Dots

Dynamic Dots

Continuing on my theme this summer of resolving paintings and drawings that have been languishing for quite some time. This one was started in a class that explored all kinds of experiments with golden proportions – according to the scrawled notes on the back, dynamic rectangles in a square in this case.
Fun colors and scribbles and when the white dots made an appearance I decided to declare it resolved.
Seeking Beauty

Seeking Beauty

Seems like a good time to pull these old favorites off the bookshelf.
The author is John O’Donohue, onetime priest, poet, philosopher who has now left us.
His words gentle me down, his poems/prayers require no specific faith, only a desire to embrace hope and ask for help.  If you try it and like what you read, look for a recording, you’ll like what you hear – that’s what a lovely Irish accent does.
The 65-30-65 Project

The 65-30-65 Project

As the hours of planning mount up, I’ve succumbed to the urge to give this big trip I’m planning for the end of the year its own special brand name.  It’s not only a shortcut in conversation, it’s also a useful naming convention for the file folders of emails and confirmations and screenshots that I’m accumulating.
So from now on, this is the 65-30-65 project.  We’re running away from home for three months to celebrate my 65th birthday (recently passed), our 30th wedding anniversary, and his 65th birthday, coming soon-ish after we return.
I think it’s got a nice ring to it.