A gift from some dear friends.  Taken today.

Last week during my artistic play date with Christine, I was discussing how I have the ability to get a tad too consumed with my creative work if I’m not careful.  I tend to take on a "get obsessed, stay obsessed" mindset when I have huge goals in front of me.  I find it easier and more productive to get in a flow and stay in that flow rather than try to get things done in bits and pieces, but I need to monitor how deep I retreat into my cocoon.  It is important I get out and do other things, even if that means nothing more than napping on the couch.

Today is a day for me to sit still with all the work I did last week.  I created a stack of new collages and worked on almost a dozen different paintings, which are now drying a bit before I work on them again.  Today I will photograph or scan the new images, update my website, and begin working on new promotional pieces for my first collage show.  I do not know when or where this first collage show will be, but I want to start getting things into place for it so I’m ready when the opportunity arises.

For some reason today feels like a particularly open day.  I have no idea why, but it feels like a day to let go of worrying about anything except taking care of the little things.  Doing what is quiet.  Doing what requires little movement or energy.  Doing what needs to be done but what won’t necessarily drain me.  The honeycomb blinds in my studio are being gently blown in and out of my window frame and I hear my clothes drying one floor below.   I have a new ceramic mug that needs to be re-filled with tea and I just put a stack of cards in my mailbox, to be scattered around the country over the next few days.  Today I’m just pitter-pattering, and enjoying the feelings I get looking at all the work I did last week, knowing that for now, I need not do anything more than that.