saturday
oo-tapo black and white
Just an old picture I came across of Oo-tapo. I have no fresh picture today. It's hard to get a good photo of him - most of them are just a black silhouette of a cat shape.
I spent most all the week being "on vacation" with the grandboys (walking bike trails, shopping, swimming, having fires, cooking meals with them, hanging out on the back porch) but today they went off to their cousin's house so it's really time for me to get back to work on this moving project. I have been up and down the stairs many times today, sorting books and objects in the basement and then taking little breaks fiddling around upstairs (like right now). This isn't something I really want to do though. I feel a feeling rising up in me to do some kind of fabulous artwork - or at least an art therapy artwork. It has been such a long, long time since I have painted or drawn anything. I think I have to get through this moving first though (dammit!) It has been long enough that we have had the puzzle apart. I see this whole process as if we had two giant puzzles (the 2 houses) and we are dismantling them piece by piece and then reassembling them again (in new places). Even after all this time though there is really only one part that is back together (my studio) - all the other parts either are only partially assembled or not assembled at all! Dave and Johnny have been busy all week on other things so I have no expectations of them right now but I know if I get moving then it is more likely that other people will get moving too so I need to get myself motivated first. Onward! (Pep talk over.)