Saturday, February 1, 2025

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 

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

And of course,


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

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

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.  

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Lucia and Mark


Befriend myself. 

Loving kindness toward myself.

Knowing myself and liking myself. 

Just as I am.

I am the ground. 

Pema Chödrön 

Saturday, December 28, 2024

It feels like


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

Friday, December 13, 2024

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Murmuration


 Continuing to sew the cloud of birds and I think it is getting close to finishing.  Leaving it in a cloud shape rather than squaring it up.  Praising the mutilated world.