Something closer to a poem

Not necessarily have a plot. 

A vehicle for the things that worry us in these bewildering times. 

Changing every time I show it. 

the continents

None of this is my fault.

I was never taught it you see, and nor did I learn how to ask. 

You could drive yourself mad.  Saying sorry for every falling thing.  

None of this has anything to do with me. 

If it’s an apology you’re after I’ll apologize for the way the water ran clean and quick over the slate and into the cavity under the back porch and rotted the bedroom floor.  

Sorry I cheated on the geography test.

Sorry I used plastic, gasoline, glitter.

And flew across this planet criss-cross. 

Max Porter from All This Unreal Time
 

Bless

 Alice Munro’s characters discover their hidden dimensions of human heart by peeling away layers of human experience.  

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.