monday
No walk this morning. I stayed up till after 1am watching iZombie (my new favorite series to stream) and when the alarm went off of at 5:30 I just felt too tired and stiff to get up before sunrise. Kathy's going to her gallery meeting this morning and I'm staying home with Pete.
Writing prompts: July 8 Luggage Tag.
Of course "luggage tag" reminds me that I am far from home right now and living out of my suitcase. I've said before that Kathy and Pete's house is like my second home. As soon as I get here I usually unpack and spread my stuff all over the house - make myself at home. I have my "stations". I have my crochet station beside a big overstuffed chair in the living room where Pete watches TV. I have my writing journal and paints on the coffee table in front of the couch in the sitting room where Kathy usually sits. I have my piano and music papers on the table on the back porch. I keep my cameras in Kathy's studio near her computer. Everything else stays in my room, the guest room. The guest room has a private bathroom. I spread out in there too. My pills on a corner table. Dirty clothes kicked under a bench in the bathroom. Bathing suit thrown over the shower door. My reading book on the bedside table. Clean clothes and everything else stays in my suitcase on the bedroom floor.
July 9 A Deep Well.
Our imaginations are deep wells. Everytime I come to visit Kathy I feel like I'm making a dip into that deep well. After seeing the other artists' work at her coop gallery I always go home with some new idea.
This is a ceramic face done by Kathy's friend Debra. It sits beside where I sit at my "writing station".
I made this drawing to remind me later to tap into this deep well when I get home. I have clay, glazes, a kiln. I can't do stoneware like Debra but I can do low fire and I have many cool glazes. I'm thinking when I get back home maybe I can work up the energy to clear my work space in the basement and make some small plaques that I can paint with majolica or small relief pieces that I could put interesting glazes on. I feel like I'm dipping a toe into the deep well while here and I'm ready to go deeper when I get home.
July 10 Intuition.
I've come to trust intuition. Be less afraid of decisions that will need to be made in the future. I've come to believe that there is Higher Power that resides in me. I just need to relax and let it take over to give me a push in the right direction. I don't need to fear the future. Though, to be honest I do fear the future. I'm not that confident. But I can keeping trying to remember to let go. And many times I do.