Some years feel longer than others...this last two, 2020 and 2021 felt like a decade. And this month, was a long, long month. I had my booster shot - got sick, powered through it in time to have a holiday visit with extended family (starting on one of the worst rain storm days) and then …
Category: art
From the heart
The art that I create from the heart always is more satisfying, and this piece is no exception: Sara I painted it for a friend whose beloved companion had passed away. I also knew and loved this little dog, so her portrait came from the heart as well as from memory. Here's a different angle: …
Planning for 2021
I know we still have three months before the end of 2020, but when I worked in "corporate America" the last quarter was when we reviewed the year's budget and began planning the next year's projects and budgets. Photo by Olya Kobruseva on Pexels.com The pandemic pretty much squashed many of the plans and projects …
Monday, Monday
Happy start of the week! Last week was spent travelling and visiting. Yes, even in the age of pandemic, sometimes friends need to be visited. And it gave me a respite, too. Now I am ready to get rolling again - outlining story arcs, painting, finishing up projects and preparing to get started (or re-started) …
Creation
Close up of "Chaos Reigns" - 2' by 2' acrylic pour painting by N. Corres When I get stuck writing, which seems to happen cyclically, I do some other creative thing - painting, and/or crafting, to distract me from focusing too hard on being stuck. For the last few weeks, I've been trying to do …
Motivation
Some days I know exactly what I need to get done and I do it. And others I just want to languish in front of my laptop, googling whatever comes to mind and then hop-scotching along the threads of related searches until even that bores me and then I go read something in my pile …
How are you spending your life?
Life. It is the ultimate currency. How are you spending it? What is important to you? What inspires you to action? I saw an obit the other day, and it talked about how this woman spent her life. Her family, her beliefs, her career...they were her priorities, where she spent that precious currency. For me …
memento mori 8/24/18
To P.M. in memory, for my friends: Memento Mori If I slap these words down, hard enough, maybe I can knock some sense into them. There’s no switch thick enough, or strap wide enough – to make these words straighten up and fly right. These words are lazy, useless, and good for nothing. These words …
Seek out the positive
Not trying for a high-falutin concept, just an everyday find something good. For example, I enjoy meeting folks with a passion...whether that passion is art, shopping, writing, science or videogames. Passionate people resonate. They vibrate positively. Listening to someone rhapsodize about their passion is inspiring. It is energizing. It feeds the soul and inspires me …
At the end of “Poetry month”
The last day of April, it has been "Poetry month" and a couple of my friends have been diligent in writing poetry nearly daily and publishing on their blogs. So in their honor, I submit the following: A poem for my friends: Blood becomes roses in the water, fascinated I am open in augury for the …
"Wind in her mane" 