Today is a quiet day with no shopping or wrapping or cooking…a day to think about how nice it was to be with our family for Christmas and sit by the fire, share a meal. Christmas Eve was the start of the fiesta… Gifts were not the central event for most of us (except […]
Thursday was “Sidney Day” which has now become “Sidney and Vivien day” since Vivien joined the group on December 3. When Sidney thought about a baby coming last summer it looked like this… which in reality isn’t too far off the way it is playing out… The event of being born is the same as […]
Years ago I made a little painting (now in the collection of the Salem Public Library) called “Everything, Everything”…all the thoughts, all the feelings, all the activity of a life. And now in this season of my own life I guess that’s the way I think. The categories are loosening, the sense of the whole […]
So the other week my cell phone told me one day that I was spending an average of 4 hours a day looking at it. I was horrified. So this holiday Roger and I were trying to live in the moment…to savor the tastes, the people, the holiday ambience, the love, the food…and guess what…? […]
95 degrees here today friends. Yikes. We picked up Sidney at day camp and headed to the Singer Hill Cafe for lunch where Sidney and I did some “Maze” drawings…me following him… and after lunch a quick story (the book available was called “Bad Habits” which Sidney pronounced “enjoyable”… before heading across the street where […]
August already??? What about all the summer stuff I was going to do and all the posts I was going to write… In deciding I write about Portland artists too much, we went (in July) to see DE May’s show at PDX Gallery and across the street to see Natalie Laswell’s piece at Blackfish Gallery…both […]
Well we’re ALL trying to “live in the moment”…to “lessen our screen time”…to enjoy our lives as we live them…yes? Yes. That precludes writing about these moments, but I continue to gather the images as if I WERE writing about them, and now I’m way behind. So how about trying to catch up with just […]
It’s been a lonnnggg wet spring here in the northwest… but we’ve just been given a gem of a gift…a brilliant sunny warm weekend at the beach…usually a July sort of thing. No wind… lots of bike rides and bay views… LOTS of beach time with Sidney (recreating a crab) looking at where the public […]
I was looking at the quilts I’ve been working on since January and they look a bit, well… bland.. so I think I need to get some color into the spring work…red and white maybe? orange? Pink? or maybe revisit the nine-patches from our fall vacation? and then which rescue to go for next, once […]
This week was Sidney’s spring vacation so we got to reprise our FAVORITE activity… “roaming the city.” First we headed to Cargo to see the kokeshi doll extravaganza (me) and the train (Sidney) a romp in Wilshire Park… lunch with Doug and Fin… then home for some puzzle working…Sidney likes easy ones and hard ones… […]
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