a portrait of the artist as a young man

a portrait of the artist as a young man, originally uploaded by dharmabumx.

I set my son up with a small cup of water, a brush and a watercolor set so that he could create while I packed boxes and attended to the business of decluttering in preparation for putting our home on the market. In the artists eye, lines become people, trees, houses, words…all the while remaining lines. Is art in the eye of the beholder or defined by the eye of the artist himself? As someone who rather likes order over chaos, I found myself struggling not to tell him how to paint, making every effort not to scold him for mixing his colors…attempting to foster pure creativity vs. my version of how to draw a tree.

Oops…

I hate it when I make it so close to the end of another successful NaBloPoMo only to forget to post…you’d think I would have this down to a science by now. Guess life (and beginning to feel under the weather) got in the way. Trying to post daily is a chore when you have nothing to say, and that’s never been my style of writing…to just say nothing for the sake of saying it. Perhaps I’ll get back into writing more regularly, perhaps I won’t. Only time will tell…but for now I’ve got to go attend to priority one, which is my son, who’s sleeping and needs to get up:)

 

Cheers.

 

golden delicious, thanks

golden delicious, thanks

, originally uploaded by dharmabumx.

I survived my very first, unaided, Thanksgiving meal. I don’t know why a turkey is so much more intimidating than a chicken when it comes to roasting. Perhaps I’ll blame the media:)

I have a LOT to be thankful for this year. So much change in the past 12 months, so much for the better. Tonight’s meal reflected a lot of that. In spite of the fact that we didn’t get to spend Thanksgiving with family as usual due to my lacking in vacation time, I managed to pull some family traditions together along with some new traditions for a wonderful, simple, meal.

Tonight, with my belly full, I give thanks for my loving husband, my beautiful son, my loyal dog, the ability to celebrate a holiday like thanksgiving, for my gainful employment with a new company where I’m actually happy, and for my health. To you and yours, I wish a happy turkey day:)