again perspective and oh those
trees…….so hard to do

This was the first water color with Gary Chapman – the lesson here I assume was perspective

this paper creation, was an outcome of the first course, at Haliburton. Glad to have the picture cause I sold it this past Friday.
The process of doing this paper was amazing!! the whole course was and so I am going to take another with that Instructor in September.

The summer looks busy and I need to stay “in the moment” cause I want to have a great summer!!

I found a website called Go-Make-Art and the style and collage pieces are what I see myself doing.
I haven’t been blogging much – life is what happens when I am making other plans – my last entry said where did March go and now I say where did April go??
I realize part of my process is that I edit as I write – when I was writing “my story” I find myself editing all the time. And I don’t want to edit.
Do I want my family, friends and strangers to really know stuff?
the transition for me this month has come from Eckhart Tolle’ and his words “you are not your story”……………and I am not. I am not the same person, not my story!!
I am different each day and new and growing and evolving.
The gifts that God sends to me are huge. Teachers appear. Money shows up just when I need it.

And Now I Get …………to go to Art School , I did the “footwork” which always involves providing the supporting paper work……………and here I am leaving for the first course tomorrow.
How we manifest our desires is very clear to me. I remember walking on Locke Street in Hamilton and looking up at an Artist Studio and wanting to be there, to be that, to live there, to do art. And I ended up living there in that Studio and doing art and being that.
Then I got to be married and have that which I had never had………..a loving relationship – not perfect but a good one, with a good man.
And now here I am again……….in a studio, belonging to an Art Group, having a friend who supports me in my art and encourages me ( cause I can slip back and think i am not an artist)
and now this opportunity to study at a for real art school !!!!!!!!! How blessed it that.
I am so blessed, and all I have to do is to seek…………seek to know my Source, my Creator!!
My goal this week is to try and connect Spirit and Art…………..Create, Creativity, Creator……..to co-create.

Christmas Picture above with all of my

grandchildren –

Happy Easter >……………but where did March go????

I feel like I have lost a month somewhere along the way. And Today realized that Easter is only one week from Sunday and I thought it was two weeks away.

Life really is what happens while we are making other plans!

Signed up for 2 workshops in Haliburton at the School of fine art………………….waiting on word about funding to take some courses and realized I could afford to do the workshops.

I am so glad Spring is here…………we may see one other snow fall however I know that its almost finished for another year. I would like to get “walking” .

Spiritually I find I have to really focus on the “grace” in my life and just be so grateful for all that I have – for my family and friends and folks God sends my way.

Having a new sponsee is a good thing – back to Step One – lots of re-affirmming that I do what I do because I have to in order to stay alive.

I have everything I need on a daily basis and that is all I have “a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of my spiritual condition”

so it is always “now” and the goal would be to stay in the “now”

This assemblege was inspired by the new look and colors of “southwest art”
I have an interest in Masks and I used to make them about 10 years ago and would like to start again.

A friend that visited me this past weekend helped me identify a couple of things.
One was around my statement ” I am not the same person since Brent’s passing”

A suggestion was that perhaps I “see things differently” that perhaps in fact I am the same person who views life from a different perspective. I am ruminating on this and believe it merits thought and contemplation.

The other food for thought: was my realizations around being alone a lot. Boundries – both emotional and physical. Living in fear of being hurt yet again………….not quite “poor me” however one cannot expect to never experience pain again. Was it the Buddists that said Life is Pain…………is that a noble truth????

And this ageism I have “put on myself”

Lots to think about…………waiting to hear about school…………………contemplation of tires or Vancouver!!!!!!!!!!! B.C. in April?????

I can’t seem to get the spell check to work so …………….please know I have other talents!!