Month: August 2024

This studio has turned out to have a big effect on me. Not only am I doing a radically different style of artwork but it’s affecting me other ways too.
I took half on my clothes out of my closet and gave them away .
I removed furniture out of my living room and gave it away.
the storage shed is full because I can’t bring myself to bring one more thing into the studio.
I don’t know if the wide open spaces I live in are changing me or just the studio or maybe it’s a combination.
my writing is sumi on steroids.
as few words as possible but still see something .
the calm that all this infuses into my thinking is good.
The spaces between are so soothing.

it’s pretty new to me
the long pauses the lingering ,

the waiting for nothing

I recently went to visit my Mom in Tacoma.
she has done the same thing as I am doing in her little house. Lots of garden but the inside is pretty sparse. Especially her bedroom. Just a window looking out to the garden with a fountain bubbling. Just a bed and a window
the key is to walk in this mind

not get all bunched up but remain in a mindset that remains sparse even though the world might be full of distractions .

Write it down

Life is so brief. What do you leave behind that’s really something. Things are ok but what you learned is better.
I wish I had a book of thoughts that my parents and grandparents had written down. I wish I knew them that way instead of how briefly we really talked about big things. That’s really why I’m writing this blog It’s for my children and grandchildren. Well I only had one child but he got married so I consider his wife my child too . They had two children and how life is you really don’t spend a lot of time talking but you can write.
Write it down because you will forget you will forget all the little things .
The past eleven years have little things recorded .
It doesn’t have to be big things that matter.
life is mostly tiny moments of insight,

You can write it down for you also . It’s fun to see how our thinking changes with new experiences . I don’t know if you have total recall, but I sure can’t remember most things , especially the little sweet things. Glimpses and insights that God mercifully gives you .
Each life is breathtaking in the grand scheme of things and it is so easy to forget it even happened .
But you can write it down and capture a little of that gift each day . You can put that day in a little picture frame of words and go back and visit it again .
It’s something only you can do. It’s something only you can know and it’s something only you can give .