Haiku My Heart–I go to the Sea

I go to the sea.

Sky, sand, sun, cloud, wave, bird, air.

I return to me.

 

I return to the beauty of a few carefully chosen words and the bright hearts that share them at Haiku My Heart.

Good Morning, Blue.

August Break Prompt : Blue

No blues skies in Apollo Beach today.

Big boomers and close lightening strikes have been the order of the day since about 5:00am.

Finding other ways to let the sun shine through.

Tomorrow, meeting up with three new potential girlfriends !

I reached out to some fellow Patti Digh-Hards, as my hubby calls them, Facebook friends who leave relatively close by,

and asked them to meet me for lunch.

Needing new tribe members here in FL !

We meet in St. Pete’s tomorrow.

A little nervous and a lot excited.

Proud of my brave self.

 

Happy Friday to you, Beautiful Ones !

Hope the weekend has some brave, nervous, excited moments in it for you too !

 

Hosted by Susannah Conway

Thank God for Art !

My love and I went to the beach to gather some Rock Fairy supplies on Sunday.

We found just the break that we needed from the busy work of getting home ready for winter in New England.

I discovered beautiful formations I had never seen or noticed before.

Like the rocks were putting on a show for me and my camera !

David had Monday off as he works for a bank and they were closed for Veteran’s Day.

We took advantage of the day to keep on working on projects around the house.

Gazebo taken down, painting projects before it is too cold to paint, plus the usual mundane tasks of laundry, garbage & recycling, cat litter boxes, etc…

Seems endless sometimes, doesn’t it ?

And then there is winter coming…

yikers.

Plus, my heart is feeling so bruised.

Battered and bruised by all the suffering, sadness, struggle and bad news in our world.

I am struggling to keep in a place of gratitude and focusing on what is good.

I saw this on Facebook this morning :

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And it rung so true for me.

I am extra grateful for my cozy studio this morning,

with its riot of creative goodies to play with…

and for my time alone, to escape and be free of the world’s heaviness for a bit,

and to rock this precious day

to the best of my creative Artist Soul’s ability.

Make some art today, Beautiful Ones.

Big big love to you !

It ain’t always pretty…

I woke up on the wrong side of the easel today.

Maybe I am just in a bit of a funk about turning 48 tomorrow.

I know, I know.

48 is great, especially considering the alternatives to growing older.

Hardi-har-har.

Whatever the cause, I was crabby.

So I took Crabby Me into the studio to lose myself in music and paint.

Acrylic paint play on an already stenciled page in my moleskine journal.

Letting the paint blobs bring the doodles out using Faber Castell pens…

Isn’t this looking promising?

Promising ?

Or too pretty?

Need to add an edge to represent what I am feeling today?

Suddenly, before I really knew what was happening

burnt sienna ink covered the page.

And not in a good way.

I started frenetically scribbling over the whole thing with a sketching pencil.

Then came out came these messy words…

This kind of left me feeling defeated.

No magically beautiful page was waiting at the end of this time in the studio!

But then how many times have I said to other journalers and to myself,

that art journaling isn’t about the end product.

That it is about the process.

About letting yourself just be,

in that space, in that moment.

After sitting with the page like this for a few moments,

I added these words…

And that is the truth, isn’t it ?

So this less than perfect,

way less than pretty, page is remaining like this in my journal.

And while some of the crabby is lingering,

I am left remembering

that no matter how ugly life may get,

to keep on looking for those sweet spots.

Happy Tuesday, Beautiful Ones !

Love hard and Make Art.

Haiku My Heart - September arrived.

 

Subtle light changes

Cool sleeps, long sleeves, maybe socks ?

My September blues.

 

 

Yes, folks, September has arrived.

 

Most of you are already fully aware of this and coping, or possibly even enjoying !.

 

I have somehow just become clued into it this morning as I shivered in my own kitchen for the first time in a very long time.

 

It was 46 degrees outside and the windows were all open in summertime mode.

 

Brrr....

 

 

I have had a really good summer.

 

But it feels like I just got started !

 

 

I do love Fall very much, but it seems to have been sprung on me somehow.

 

Ah well...

 

I will take comfort in my stitching and creative juicy stuff,

 

and maybe just a few too many of these new found treasures.

 

I am enjoying play time this month with Deb Taylor and her awesome Mish Mash gang.

 

Plus no more flipflops will mean it's time for red cowgirl boots !

 

Hope your September 2013 is treating you well, Beautiful Ones.

Big love !

 

 

 

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Haiku My Heart–What’s right ?

 

Retrograde madness

Be gone. Focus on the good.

What is right with you ?

 

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Quickly now, what are three things that are right with you and your world in this very moment ?

Here are mine :

1. Flowers in bloom

2. Silly laughs with hubby before he went to work this morning

3. I am a part of something beautiful, like the wonderful Haiku My Heart family that joins together every Friday for small words and loving encouragement.

Haiku My Heart @ recuerda mi corazon

 

Of course the list can go on and on, but that is a place to start…

Deep breaths, light and love to you, Beautiful Ones.

Haiku My Heart–Going Tiny…

Look into tiny

In the midst of overwhelm

You can find Heaven.

 

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I had already taken some “tiny” photos this morning when my Magic Maker/Artist friend, Elizabeth, posted this link on on Facebook, about “tiny studies” in your creativity.

In a week that has felt overwhelmingly grey and rather heavy,

the notion of going tiny,

looking at a pebble,

making a stitch,

taking one bite,

going in for a macro shot

feels comforting and manageable,

and just whelming enough.

I am going tiny and accepting the grey, in its many, many shade, today.

May your day be just whelming enough too, Beautiful Ones!

Happy Friday !

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