In a mysterious wilderness

 

Travel cloth on the left.  Un-done bundle wrap on the right.   

We are in a mysterious wilderness outside the village of the ordinary.  Cy Twombly

Aging and Renewal

Journals are a lifeline between the inside and the outside. 

Christina Baldwin

Feminine Readers

 Feminine writing is for the feminine reader. 

A feminine reader studies a collection of texts that deal with fundamental issues of existence in ways that question our perception of ourselves and others.  They want to create a better life.  

Helene Cixous writes for the feminine reader.   

Susan Sellers editor of the Helene Cixous Reader

Seekers

 To have imagination and to be aware of it is to benefit from possessing an inner richness and a spontaneous and endless flood of images.  

Magdalena Abakanowicz 

How to love

 The way to love someone is to lightly run your fingers over that person’s soul until you find a crack and then gently pour your love into that crack.  

Found these words in an old journal. 

Preparing the travel cloth for tonight’s plane stitching. 

four noble truths

Feel discomfort about change

Sit still like a mountain 

Don’t resist 

Let it be

Buddha

The subject is myself and what I see

Perspective?

It is made in my head, not on the paper.

It depends on you and the ideas you have.

The most simple things are the most difficult.

Henri Matisse, the lost interview 

a torso

‘To me art’s subject is the human clay, Landscape but a background to a torso; 

 All Cezanne’s  apples I would give away For a small Goya or a Daumier’

From w.h.Auden’s ‘letter to Lord Byron’ 1937. Quoted by David Hockney when he made a portrait of WH Auden in 1968. 

In Cornwall

He wanted to go to the shipwreck museum with grandad and brother after all so she could go to the Eden Project.