I haven’t got any words of wisdom today…
Just breathing thankfulness for my front door.
I was ambushed yesterday by joy,
just by coming home, and feeling so happy to have a home.
Walking up the stairs, and reaching for the door.
My door!
The door to where I belong!
❤
Sorry – I know I’m rambling.
I’m just taking stock of the good in my world, and remembering to be grateful.
It’s been a good year so far…
What will the rest of it bring to my door?
Feels like it’s been a busy old week.
I’m getting more done lately, and using the days better.
This week, I even stayed out after dark! 😆
We were told we needed to go and see a particular movie (Unsung Hero), so we went off to Springfield cinemas on Wednesday. It seems to be a limited release, so there’s only one session a day. On Wednesday, that was late afternoon.
It was a beautiful movie, and I cried at various points.
Then afterwards, we got some food and went home again…
I’m glad we went 😀
The movie has a beautiful theme song, but this was the one I wanted to look up when I got home.
They have their own story behind the song, of course, and if you see the movie you might see when I thought of it…
For me –
this year feels like a new era, in a lot of ways.
I don’t think it’s wrong to look at the past, as long as you don’t get stuck in the murky bits.
We remember the good things – and the God things! – and then we face forward again, and keep walking.
Some days, you just have to strike a match.
❤
Today feels like it’s lasted for years (in a good way!)
I am tired, but happy – this week has been a time to catch up on things that have been undone for a while. Nothing that had to be done RIGHT NOW, but the sorts of things that sit behind your eyelids, and clamour for attention until they’re sorted…
I had expected to spend part of the day finishing off a drawing, but it’s still sitting on the easel, sketched in, but not complete.
So – today has been a lot of “doing”, just not for this one thing.
It’ll be waiting there for next week, and probably will be the better for it.
The doing is done, for this day.
Now, I think, I’ll just concentrate on being.
It’s hard to believe we’ve been in this house a couple of months short of a year.
I know this because yesterday we got an offer for another 12 month lease.
Yayest of yays! 😀
There’s still just over two months until this lease runs out, so they must really like us…
I am continuing to get cosy with my art space, and have spent a bit (or more) of time out there each day. I think I’m catching up with my assessments. Here’s one I did earlier –
A crumpled piece of paper!
This is the second attempt at this one – the last one was rubbish…
The cold has started to grow teeth now.
Yesterday, the evening was pretty in pink.
It even looks cold!
The roses are sleeping, remembering sunnier days, and casting petals to the memories.
And I am close to slumbering – dreaming of graphite and charcoal.
…with a lovely relaxing playlist to sleep by.
❤
Feels like this week has gone fast 🙂
Morning has decided it’s committed to winter, but the rest of the day hasn’t quite made its mind up…
Still keeping up (I think) with my lessons.
One of the assignments was to “draw an animal skull”.
Coles doesn’t stock those…
I was starting to worry that I might have to start hunting (or at least keep my eye out for roadkill!), but we found a friend who had a spare skull (sheep? goat?) I could borrow.
You never know what you’ll find in an artist’s shed.
Only got around to it yesterday – the bigger assignments can take hours rather than minutes. I also decided to use charcoal, a medium I probably haven’t touched for years.
Probably not my best work, but it’s going in as the final image.
It was more enjoyable than some of my other assignments (one was just…a very large rectangle. It was for practising measurement).
And my art/sun room is slowly getting arranged into a more useful configuration.
It’s been a good week.
Even my roses had a last hurrah for the summer.
Time for bed soon 🙂
But – just because I’m feeling rainbowy…
❤
It was probably only a few days ago when the days decided to tip over into winter.
It’s been SO COLD!!
Comparatively.
And really, only in the mornings. Late afternoons. Nights.
I like this time of year. It’s sort of crispy clear, and good for snuggling in to warm duvets, and unicorn slippers. I even did a bit of a “spring” makeover – washed the sheets, which dried quickly in the breezy cold.
A beautiful sight!
I chose the blue skies duvet cover for me, to remember the hot sunshine by.
I have also (finally) been using my art room – something I hadn’t been able to get together in the last couple of places we’ve lived in.
My desk.
Where I’m actually doing some work!
And here’s my corner(ish) chair, snuggled in its little spot, and so far still warm during the day. It’s for reading, and writing (definitely no ‘rithmetic!)
I hadn’t realised there was so much colour around it…
Rainbows, and hearts, and toes about to become toasty warm!
I am tired right now – it was a big day of cleaning and washing – but I feel like I’ve been able to do more lately. Even though I lose energy over the day, it feels like I’m starting from a higher point. It’s lovely to be able to actually do something!
Having a bit more strength in the day is great, and there are times when I feel like a child again.
Not quite to this level of activity, though.
Everything else in the song is possible 🙂
This world may be crazy.
But it is beautiful.
❤
The sun has been lovely lately.
Bright clear days to get the washing dry, and just enough warmth to thaw my toes in the morning!
I got myself some sunflowers the other day, to bring the sunshine inside.
They’ve been lighting up the lounge room for a fair few days, but have been decorously wilting lately.
Still beautiful!
As the sunroom has been warm, but not baking, I’ve been using it a bit more.
I sat amidst the bookcases yesterday afternoon, enjoying poetry and music. Thought I’d do it again today…
Well, it started out OK.
I have some Lego sets the boys bought me, but I hadn’t put them together yet. How long could it take?
The one today was part of a Doctor Who set. The (twelfth) doctor, and the TARDIS is done – just K9 to go.
Those pieces are so tiny!
…and my hands are getting older.
Yes, I dropped a tiny, tiny piece.
A tiny, tiny piece that is also a specialist piece (it attaches the head somehow).
I heard it bounce away, but I can’t tell which direction sound is coming from.
A cursory look at the immediate surroundings didn’t help, so I pulled a few bits of furniture out.
Nothing.
I had noticed yesterday that the sunroom needed a good dust.
How long could that take?
I dusted the tops and shelves, including all the little bits and pieces on the shelves.
The boxes and containers all had to be moved and vaccuumed behind, as well as dusting them.
The (tiny, tiny) piece could have got caught up in the curtains?
The heavy, rubber backed curtains that I’ve been meaning to… do something with.
So, they came down, and were replaced with lovely translucent blue curtains. I still had to fold and store the old ones – the metres of heavy, huge fabric that sheds dust if you just look at it. I had remembered to put a mask on at some point, so the dust didn’t annoy me too much.
It took a while, but everything in the sunroom is sparkling now.
I already had the vaccuum out, so it made sense to do the rest of my cleaning (lounge, kitchen, bedroom, as well as dusting the surfaces in those places).
All nice and clean now 🙂
I normally do the big clean on Saturday morning, but now I can sleep in a bit tomorrow.
Today was a lot more active than my normal days, so I had Panadol and a hot water bottle, after a lovely hot shower/hair wash.
A bit sore, but feeling accomplished.
Still haven’t found that Lego piece, though.
Such a day!
I feel like a new direction has been peeking round a corner today, hinting its existence, and teasing its imminence.
I know, that sounds hopelessly vague.
Some things get clearer with time! 🙂
Anyway – I don’t know anything past that hint, so I’ll talk about rose petals…
The rose bush I thought was dormant for the winter decided to gift me a vase full of blooms for Mothers’ Day.
They’ve already started to drop their petals, but aren’t they beautiful?
A delicate drift of scented loveliness –
a different stage of life, with beauty still to give.
Have you ever felt used up
old
petals falling
drifting?
Maybe there’s still time
space
expectancy
– to spread a sweet scent over a fading world,
and bring beauty back into your part of the garden.
❤
Round and about, really.
I hadn’t realised I’d been gone so long – nearly a month!
Well.
Hello! 😀
I’m enjoying the new season. These chilly nights feel languid yet full of possibilities…I’m not sure why. Some sort of sense memory lingering underneath the now…
These last two weeks have galloped by. I had to have a minor procedure up at the hospital two Mondays ago. I had thought I’d be OK fairly soon after, but it took a bit longer, and then I apparently caught a bug from one of my boys. They’re so generous! 😆
I’ve also been settling into doing a year long course at TAFE (online). It’s run through a uni in Central Queensland, and one of the preliminary tasks involved safety procedures on campus – even though I’m doing my studies online, I can still visit the campus if I happen to be passing through.
You can tell it’s a Queensland campus. One of the first topics cautioned us against annoying the kangaroos on the campus grounds, closely followed by what to do if you find a snake – in or out of the buildings. There’s even a dedicated number to ring.
Apart from that – I finally got the clock up.
It even keeps good time.
There was a rose on the bush at the back yesterday, clinging on to the remnants of summer.
The hibiscus bush seems to be exploding at the moment. They’re very vibrant.
And somehow frilly…
I have enjoyed cups of hot chocolate.
And a muffin or two!
Orange and poppyseed – a treat from my Babe, when I still wasn’t up to going out.
Yesterday I caught the bus (just up the road) to get some stuff 🙂 It’s the first time in a long while I’ve been out by myself! Had a good long look at the charity shops, and treated myself to some purchases, like a pedestal trinket bowl, to balance my pet crayfish on.
Also – books.
Lots of books.
😀
Nearly time for a new week to begin.
Lots to do!
I was surprised to see the sun today, since the forecast had been talking about rain over the week ahead, and we’ve had downpours here lately.
I love grey days, especially when they’re just on the comfortable side of cool. I often feel a bit more energetic on those days – not sure whether it’s the “grey” or the “cool” that helps…
Still, nice to see blue skies today!
I just finished a book about sunshine.
It was written earlier in the pandemic, when people were still trying to comprehend the “new normal”. It’s a compilation of stories about people making sunshine out of life’s storms…that sounds very airy-fairy, but it’s really about those people standing in their grey cloud realities and looking for the light. You can’t just wish tragedies away, or wish the good stuff in. You can stand where you are, and find where the cracks let the light in. Or let someone close to you see them, if you just can’t get there ❤
One thing that runs through the stories is the kindness of others. That’s something that we saw during lockdowns, and have experienced at other times in our lives.
Light will always overcome darkness.
Also, clouds come in different sizes, and shades.
Look for the blue sky.
Reach for the light!
Tonight I found out that a friend had died, earlier on in the year.
We only knew each other online, and there were many others in our group who knew him better.
Still, we had various interactions, and he sent me two books that are still in my bookcases. I will get them out to look through again tomorrow.
This song came my way tonight, and I thought it fitting for this post.
I don’t think that his life was “troubled”, as such, but a long life lived kindly and openly will have pain and trouble in it. And then – rest…for someone who spread ripples of love, and shone light where the clouds had formed.
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1000 Fields of Roses 