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| pastel and colored pencil on cold pressed 300 lb. paper, 8x10 inches |
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| pastel and colored pencil on cold pressed 300 lb. paper, 8x10 inches |
I like my mornings for meditating, reading, writing, and drinking coffee, and lighting incense. I have often said that I am not a morning person, because I don’t like to talk in the morning, at all. But, contemplating, planning, adjusting to a new day, these are real activities that take up space. I am a morning person after all, very much so! I also do some of my best work when I don’t stop to question it, like sitting down to my drawing table without giving it a second thought, and this often happens first thing in the morning.
I am learning a lot lately, about choosing to be present and no longer allowing myself to disappear…
I'm still here. That's my go to answer when people ask how I'm holding up. I'm still here. I'm surviving. Some days I'm even better than surviving.
I am so grateful that the weather is getting nice and I can go for long walks and appreciate the outdoors. I know what a blessing this is because I have friends in the city who don't leave their tiny apartments. It is also, ironically, the first time in many years that, not only do I not have a garden to tend to, I have zero outdoor space at all. It figures, after all these years of composting and growing my own vegetables, now that I can't do it anymore, the whole world has gotten into it! Today I went and planted a few pots of Swiss chard regardless. There's hardly any sun on my poor looking stoop so my options are limited, however, this feels good, like some continuity at the moment.
There is something about this pandemic that is bringing some real truth up to the surface. Everyone is suffering in one way or another, but I feel the power of all of us being in this together.
This morning while meditating I got a picture in my head. I am like a black and blue, and maybe I'm not the only one. I'm healing, and there’s no rushing the process. What it implies is that the damage is already done, it doesn’t hurt that much anymore, and it is almost recovered. Here is an opportunity for change. If I choose to keep bumping into it over and over, it will be like getting more black and blues on top of this one. Why would I do that?!
So, I’m not. I'm taking a breath. I’m here making drawings, planting seeds, and accepting the moment as it is.
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| pastel and colored pencil on cold pressed 300 lb. paper, 8x10 inches |
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| pastel and colored pencil on cold pressed 300 lb. paper, 8x10 inches |
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pastel and colored pencil on cold pressed 300 lb. paper, 9.5x10.5 inches
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