
It is the first of September. It is the beginning of the eruption for me.
An eruption of growth and art, so begins my prolific time. Life is very much a wave from the ocean,highs, lows, constant, a shore, a horizon to view and guide you, but always energy churning, sometimes on the surface, sometimes underneath. I love this time of year. While the pumpkins turn orange, and the harvest is in, I have so many ideas and visions. I feel great doors opening...but I really can't tell you what they are, because I just don't know what they are yet. But I am being led to focus intently on art, and I will go there now.
I'm also feeling like I'm being pulled back to illustration, but this time around I want to fit in better. I'm going to explore and paint and draw and focus. I will see, we will see. I feel I have value in the market, but where? Ask and an answer will come. My little book about Pino is percolating out there...and now I have other ideas I want to put on paper and do more books and manuscripts. So I am going to play with those. I'll write what I know. It dawned on me that my whole life I have a been a little entity into myself, always being told very wise things like, "Don't paint your clothes", and I always questioned these tidbits. I dreamed of things and had ideas as a little girl that I knew were not the norm of my little friends or family, yet all these things have manifested into a good life, my life. I took solace in my grove of woods, and did things only the woods and I knew, and we all felt just fine together. I have an idea there for a children's story...I'll percolate. There are many stories here on the farm, many characters. I want the world to know the characters, I think they will feel better after these stories. I think maybe that is my place right now. That's the part of the wave I'm on.
5 comments:
OHhh... I think a book of your illustrations and stories about the farm would be a WINNER! I'll buy one ! I wish we had Fall weather here, but alas...it is hot and humid through October and November sometimes! (Charleston,SC)ps: Love the apron!
Hi Katherine - I loved your pictures and story about Pino - you should talk to Susan at Farmgirl about doing the illustration for her book about Cary - I think you'd be great together!
I love your apron story - My grandma put on an apron every day of her life I think (at least the days I can remember) I have several aprons left over from my days of selling Pampered Chef and I love them - I put one on when ever I go into my kitchen :-) but your's is ultimately much more stylish.
So sorry to read about your chicken - they are such funny little critters - seems if they make it past the first two years or so, they'll live for ages - we have three left from the original flock of a dozen and they are about 7 or 8 years old now. They still give us eggs in the summer time.
I wish you great luck in finding a publisher for your book! Tina
great idea! I´ll buy one too!
i feel the wave, too. God, i love the change of seasons... it's wild here cause the monsoons ended a few weeks ago, and then all a sudden, it started raining nearly every day this past week. it is such a cool rain, so cleansing and completely refreshing. it calms me and inspires me. and i'm feeling like i'm on the edge of a big one...a big ol wave of energy and inspiration. so blessed am i. are we. i can't wait to hold one of your books in my hands and read it to Oso. xojenny
i have Just found your blog thru the ^ web ^ that is Blogging Sisters.
it looks right up my alley / farmroad.
i 'm bookmarking it (haven't even read a lot of it yet ~ just browsed) & will reVisit.
i'm excited to find out more about the beauty that is your life.
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