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So, I think I mentioned in the previous post that I decided to give my novel, Doing Time on Planet Earth, to the New Gal ("NG") on Monday? ( Read more... )

Decided to do water-coloring on weekends, or in snatches. Rushing is a bad idea. You do not rush with art. It never ends well. I've ruined more paintings that way. Art requires patience and is meditative - it requires mindfulness. It's possibly the most meditative and mindful activity outside of maybe yoga. (I am not good at yoga - I'm six foot, not flexible, and overweight. None of these items work well with yoga. One is bad enough, all three - is an issue. Add lack of coordination, spinal curvature, and bad back to the mix - and you have a cocktail that is not conducive to yoga.
Have same issues with pilates. The best I can do is chair yoga, standing yoga exercises, and possibly downward dog. Floor exercises and I, are unmixy things.)

One of church's ministers is doing a yoga spiritual retreat in Costa Rica next year. Tempting, but I am not good at yoga. I keep trying to like it.
I don't think it's happening.

Do you have things in your life - which you are told that you are supposed to love or like and/or are good for you? But the appeal is simply lost on you? And you wonder, okay is it me? Why can't I love this?

This is me and...
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I try, but it ain't happening.

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I tried to tempt Wales with a cruise, while she was obsessing over her estrangement with her siblings. ( Read more... )

Mother decided I was stressing over the room in Great Barrington that my brother had selected, and is taking it upon herself to ask him for two rooms. (I'm not really - I'm procrastinating doing anything about it - because I don't want to deal with my brother at the moment. He can be a bit of a pill. Mother seems to understand that she foisted this sibling onto me, and expecting me to get along swimmingly with him may be pushing it a bit.)

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Been happy lately. I think it's doing the watercolors and revising my novel? Happy with both at the moment. Also the Artist Dates, and Artist's Way book? Also church? Anyhow, may be just loving my hobbies. It helps provide me with a healthy work/life balance which I was lacking last year.

Best not to analyze it. Could just be Spring - and the sun being around longer. It came out at the end of the day. I love this time of evening - the light is soft, and fluttery. It just softly touches everything, giving it a glow. Also, the red maple in the backyard is unfurling its leaves very slowly. It's pretty against the sky...that is dipping into sunset.

I need to plan a weekend Artist Date for myself. I'm thinking Easter weekend for this - which I think is next weekend? I can make that a four day weekend, and do something either on Good Friday or Saturday.




Forgot - if you are on Twitter - where are you moseying off too? Spoutible? Mastodon? Patroen? Somewhere else?

Rumor has it the muskrat is planning on making people pay for just about everything - and I refuse to pay for social media. I never have. I never will.