Hunkered down for Winter!

Good excuse to stay home and create!

Trees down, neighbors helping each other dig out, 
Waiting for a clear path to the mail box.
Beauty everywhere.

"Nature is full of genius, full of the divine; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.."
Henry David Thoreau
 

"Vignette"

New Year, new word

"vignette -- a small ornamental design filling space in a book or carving typically based on foliage"

 This past year I just could not settle into anything.  I tended to jump from place to place, idea to idea never really extending my learning curve nor my imagination.

With a new year I'm always tempted to become orderly. I have gathered together all the 'small stuff' accumulated over several years.  Earrings that I no longer wear, buttons of all kinds, charms from 'old' bracelets.  My goal for this year is to make up a bunch of 'vignettes' reflecting 'where I am right' now as well where I have been in the past. We'll see what I discover.

"Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface." - Bradley Chicho

"Much the Worse for Wear"?

Happily I say goodbye to this year.  Not that it was bad mind you, but my body and mind have changed (dare we mention the three letter word age???).  I'm trying to keep up with the changes but some days are harder than others.

I want the old energetic, 'go getting' girl I once was but am trying to  accept my limitations and seek grace, beauty and love .  Sometimes it comes easily and other times its a struggle.  

Do you keep a journal?  Do you make 'resolutions' for yourself, to 'evaluate' your life as we turn the last page of 2018? 

I have kept journals for years. I find it helps to just write down all the good stuff and get the bad stuff out of my system by writing it down too.


To all of my friends I wish you a wonderful new year ahead - one where you make only good memories.
Happy New Year!!!

"Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier". 

Alfred Lord Tennyson