The second quilt I ever made💜

The role of art is not to isolate us in an artificial or neutral space but to help us participate in our life.  

Its goal is to be useful, not only beautiful. 

Its use is therapeutic as well as artistic.  

Art seeks to relieve, alleviate, heal.  Henri Matisse

From last year, when she was five years old

 Let me advise you to form the habit of taking some of your solitude with you into society.  

Not to say what you think. 

Not to attach too precise a meaning to what others say. 

Not to expect too much of them. 

And to strengthen yourself in the feeling of indifference to their opinion.

This precaution will keep you from too close a contact with society, and therefore secure you against being contaminated or outraged by it.  

Schopenhauer 

And of course,

My window stitching, at least an hour, finishing the red dream quilt this week.  

And also Hope

 My novel: 

An autobiographical novel about a 30-something woman who discovers that she’s an artist while having babies in North Western Ontario before the internet and to have the writing be as authentic as possible - not necessarily plot - driven, but more stream-of-consciousness/ inner life.  

Lucia and Mark

Befriend myself. 

Loving kindness toward myself.

Knowing myself and liking myself. 

Just as I am.

I am the ground. 

Pema Chödrön 

It feels like

 I’m terrified all the time.  All the time.  I just am so afraid. 

Countdown Quilt

My heart opened like a flower under sky. 

Lorca