My days are robustly, resoundingly, generously, (sometimes) overwhelmingly, and unfailingly filled-to-the-brim of late.
I bookmark moments as I move through each day.
This morning:
• smoothing out blanket wrinkles together with Dave while we make our bed first thing;
• walking at 445a in a world filled with birdsong and sunrise and fresh air;
• searching high and low for—and then locating!—at Stop & Shop the sandwich 'slider' rolls requested by Caroline for her upcoming visit;
• writing up reminders for my tutorial schedule for next week;
• plucking a ripe ripe red red strawberry from our garden and popping its burst of juice in my mouth;
• restocking toilet paper in our bathrooms; and
• making a bookmark—an actual physical bookmark for marking a stopping/starting place in a book—from a postcard I painted earlier this year.
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| Not Following National News 1.75 x 5.75" bookmark; acrylic, ink, pencil, and collage on cardstock abstract 2021 |
12 comments:
Oh I love the idea of making and using a bookmark honoring your not following national news. Take care.
Thea, your appreciation of my not following national news has me smiling. Thanks for the little uptick in good spirits at a point in a very busy day where that uptick is most welcome!
Love the idea of creating art and not following national news!
Smiling at your awesome title. And exploring your graphic, yet somehow soothing bookmark. So grateful for your art in my inbox :)
Joje—again, happy to see you here! This bookmark, as I mention above, was cut from a postcard I'd previously painted (and sent to Futh). The title comes from what I'd written on the message side of the postcard : )
I'm getting great enjoyment from the enjoyment others are getting from the title of this little bookmark. Sheila, you keyed in on exactly what I like about this bookmark; I'm using it now in the book I'm reading and each time I see it its graphic nature pulls me and its softnesses and neutrals soothe me.
Happy to be invited into your inbox : )
I think it's over a month that I have not put on TV news. Best thing I have done in a long time. Love how you cherish every moment another thing that I have to learn!
Dear Dotty, we can bookmark-paint ourselves from one day to another if life gets too busy for more. Thanks for sharing YOUR bookmarks ;-)
Carol, for decades I have neither watched TV news nor subscribed to a newspaper, but I did listen to NPR in the car when running errands. Now, for a long while, not even that! I rely on word of mouth, stay focused on the here and now perceptible to me, and paint bookmarks : )
Simone, yes! We can bookmark-paint one day at a time. Your recent posts inspired me to sneak in a snippet of studio time yesterday. So glad I did! Thank you!
I love your bookmarks and cherish them.
I am totally stealing the bookmarking moments idea as I move through the next two weeks in a blur of activity. And the sweetness of you and Dave making the bed together....my heart smiled.
What the heck! Did I never respond to your comment? Well, here I am now. Thank you for cherishing my bookmarks : )
Keep bookmarking moments!
Yes, the sweetness of Dave and me making the bed together—'tis especially sweet given that I think there were years when we did not make the bed at all, let along together!
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