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I’ve never witnessed the warmth and the lack of winter, such as this year, 2024. Within a few hours of the  storms, the snow melted under the warmth of the polluted air.

One’s creative juices (if you are a fine artist) waxes and wanes like a moon. Recently, one of my art pieces was displayed in a corner during an art exhibit.  This wouldn’t have been so hurtful, but it was also placed on a door leading to a kitchen. Mind you; this show was juried, andContinue reading “Alone in the Corner”

I’ve not only been grieving for the last two years since my husband passed away from cancer but also navigated life as a 68 year old woman on her own. Thank goodness for community,  family, and friends who remind me often how much I have accomplished in these two years. I’ve managed to fix the houseContinue reading “Something New in 2024”

I woke up this morning contemplating my day. What was different, my mind traveled back 7 years to 2014. I was a high school art teacher with 4 years till retirement. Feeling very ready for the usual retirement plans; sleeping in, travel, having more time to myself. I wanted to do what I couldn’t doContinue reading “Aug 21, 2021”

Winding down an unfamiliar path. Stepping between a fold and looking up at sheets of protected sandstone, a portrait of past life. Sifting through senectuous lineage, trying to disentangle the past. An epitaph bearing the pith of mothers and hunters. Spirits of archaic life, now exposed and vandalized.