Grace in little things

Little, littler, littlest…

August Break Prompt : “Little”

Okay, I got a bit behind with August Break.

Thought about it everyday

but have really just be soaking in

the heart time

with my brilliant, beautiful, fun and funny niece Jessica.

We are beach bound as much as possible

and loving it !

 

But as Susannah says, we’re in the home stretch with this challenge.

Going to try and get back in line.

But still enjoy my time with Jess

to the fullest !

Happy Monday, Beautiful Ones !

Bits of magic

My niece Jessica and I had a sweet time walking in the Domaine St. Bernard on Saturday. It was a crisp November day, perfect for getting rosy cheeks and perfect too, for Chickadee love!
Little bits of everyday magic. For these I am so very, very grateful.
Happy Monday, Beautiful Ones!

The Day after…

It would seem that elections give me headaches.

It must be all that line drawing, “I win, you lose” and battleground crap. I am so happy with the outcome, as I believe in Barack Obama. He is the only candidate that gives me any hope that we can ever get closer to living in that field that Rumi talks about.

I know it won’t happen in my life time, but there is always hope.

I have a horrible headache this morning and I have many things to accomplish today.

Tomorrow, I leave for a week long visit up north.

(Jessie on the right, with her mom, my sister, Natalie)

Number 1 is time with my niece Jessica, who is 21, and who really wanted to make a plan for some Aunt/Niece time when I saw her about a month ago. How could I refuse ??? So we are taking two days in a hotel in Mont Tremblant, to hang out and spend precious time together !!! We got a great deal on the hotel as it is kind of the dead season up there until the snow falls. I am so excited to be with that girl!

I will also see my mom, my two sisters and a friend or two, (there is never enough time to see everyone I would love to see !)

and then on Monday,

I head back down to VT to spend some time with e.b. !

It is bundle up time in VT in every sense of the word,

and I need to share some of that time with my amazing friend !

Off to pop some Advil and hope that this headache doesn’t slow me down too much.

Wishing you a happy Wednesday, Beautiful Ones !

Sometimes, there’s a hole…

Yesterday, I spent Sunday afternoon  facing this view…

North Hampton State Park beach, NH.

How blessed am I ?

I was in a bit of a strange mood.

One that I will choose to blame on hormones.

You see, 97 % of the time, I am utterly and completely fine with the fact that David and I decided not to have any children.

But every once in a while, I hit a day that falls into that 3 %

where the fact that I don’t have a child to love and to be loved by for the rest of my life

is like a hole in me.

Maybe it is because this gorgeous creature is turning twenty today :

(my sister Nat and Jessica from Fall 2010)

and she was the first baby that I ever really, really loved and was loved back by…

(Happy Birthday, Beautiful Jessie ! I love you so much.)

or because I am missing this 3 year old niece who is the best niece since Jessica, and who I haven’t seen nearly as much as my heart wants to lately :

(Katie – April 2011)

(I am coming over soon, Katie ! I miss you !)

Or maybe it is because I am 45 and my hormones are getting ready to bring me out of my childbearing years into the next phase of womanhood…

I don’t know but man, oh, man did I want a kiddo yesterday !

I spent a lot of my time at the beach watching a family of six play,

two sets of twins, I think, two girls and two boys about a year apart.

They were so cute !

One thing I learned from watching them was that there is no way I would never want to have had 4 kids as sweet as they were…man, that is a busy life !

But maybe, if it was just one…???

Okay, enough !!

I think I will just have to head up north asap, and get me some good niece and nephew loving to fill in that hole a little more.

And in the mean time, I will go back to creating in other ways !

Here is another Sunflower Girl that I did last week.

I think it may just get framed up and given to Jessie as a birthday gift…

And here is a work in progress journal page :

I did the yellow background a while ago – extra paint from the palette smeared here and there..

The circles and the sequin waste pattern are actually rubber stamps with StazOn ink in black.

The marionette figure came about in kind of a cool way.

I ripped shapes from an old dictionary page to form a head, a torso and some arms.

And then the figure just needed a torn skirt to become the puppet that she is…

Twinkling H20s added color to her…

Maybe I will add this quote to the page somehow :

“How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!” -  Carlo Collodi

We shall see…

Today will be about some mundane Monday things like groceries and stuff.

But also Meditation class tonight.

I have been a lapsed meditator these days and it is time to get back to practice !

I hope you are feeling fulfilled this Monday, Beautiful Ones.

Big Love !

Haiku My Heart - Postcards

 

Postcards from the Edge.

A trail left by the Artist

Traveling the Path.

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My new haircut and I are off to Montreal and La Conception for the long weekend.

A family get together to see one gorgeous 19 year old niece off on her adventure.

Some time playing with another gorgeous 2 year old niece and some other sweet family members that will fill up my heart.

Leaving a surprise giftie for a friend turning fifty.

And seeing a few friends who are really nifty…

big groan…

I may be an artist but poet, maybe not so much !!! ;)

Have a great Labor Day Weekend, Beautiful Ones ! Remember to take time to play !

Big Love.

Haiku My Heart - Flight

(art journal page from 2007)

Your wings just grew in.

Life has cleared you for take-off.

Fly, Gorgeous Girl, fly.

Jessie, High School Prom, June 2008

I don’t always gush about my niece Jessica on the blog, though I adore her, think she is brilliant and beautiful, funny and capable of anything she sets her mind to. Jessie is a private person and doesn’t really like me to put her photos out on the internet very much.

But I am making an exception today because I found out yesterday that my gorgeous 19 year old niece is striking out on an adventure. She has made the plan, arranged the details and even decided to leave a really nice guy behind because she knows it is her time to fly.

I am so proud of her I could burst.

And Jess’s courage and strength has inspired me to blow the dust off my own beautiful wings and spread them a bit wider, and maybe think about my own flight plan a little more…

Putting love and wind beneath your wings and praying for clear skies for your flight, My Beautiful Girl.

I love you.

(for more haiku my heart beauty go here. )