Whew, that was a week.
Let me say that again. Whew.
This morning I woke up early but having had the first sort of good sleep in weeks. My description of a good night’s sleep involves about 3 hours less than it used to, but I’ll take it! So nice to get through till 5 in the morning without having had a 2 hour awake time AND to even fall back asleep for a bit longer. Those awake times just really suck. Do you get up? Do you read? On a good friend’s advise I try to pick a category (she’s a master at that, really interesting diverse things) and then go through the alphabet thinking up items. I used to do that with things like fruit and vegetables or boys’ names but now I try ‘art supplies’ or ‘colours’. Trouble is I have the attention span of a gnat and get to about D then constantly wander off in my thoughts and redo D over and over. You’d think that process itself would put me to sleep!
Anyways, a better sleep last night and a change from the weekday structure today. I’m taking a break from Pippin today and had a lovely Saturday morning puttering and being very productive on the painting pictures side of it (www.jennifertanart.com). I’m overdue for an update in the gallery of paintings over there. A cool thing about living with teenagers and young adults is that I’m almost guaranteed to have time in the morning — a LOT of time — when the house is quiet and I have time to talk to myself.
Yesterday when the sun shone I took a break and tried to get good photos of all that I’ve painted in the last months. It’s so hard getting good pictures lately with it being so dark! Winter dark. This morning I sent them all off to Miz M, my website guru on that end of things and my creative partner in all painting shenanigans. I went over some sketches I’d doodled for possible future Pippin designs. Listened to some great tunes. Put a few new quotes into my book. Had a chai. Maybe two. Such a nice contrast to the week’s paddling. It felt mellow and productive and earned and revitalizing.
When you become quiet it just dawns on you. –Thomas Edison
