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something I am grateful for today
May. 26th, 2025 06:05 pmAn entire day free of obligations. I honestly cannot remember the last time. [I always figured that days like this were what retirement would be like, but boy did I figure wrong.]
something I am grateful for today
May. 10th, 2025 06:05 amthe songs of robins — been a long time coming
something I am grateful for today
Apr. 24th, 2025 09:22 ammaking it this far!
Dunno what's different about this year, but I was really looking forward to this birthday and am glad to have it. Shaping up to be a great day!
[What's more, it's my first day this year wearing my summer shoes — always a Big Event®]
Dunno what's different about this year, but I was really looking forward to this birthday and am glad to have it. Shaping up to be a great day!
[What's more, it's my first day this year wearing my summer shoes — always a Big Event®]
something I am grateful for today
Apr. 12th, 2025 06:26 pmtrying out my new specialty pencil sharpener [designed for carbon and charcoal pencils] and finding out it works exactly as hoped
something I am grateful for today
Mar. 13th, 2025 02:29 pm
I spotted a back issue of a magazine online, one with an article I wanted to read. I was about to buy it when I thought, "Wait, I have a few issues of that magazine down in the basement — maybe I have that issue and just forgot?" So I went to check, and: yes and yes.
Grateful that I stopped to think, and saved myself a buck.
something I am grateful for today
Feb. 5th, 2025 08:32 amMy dad, who passed just over eighteen years ago.
I recently ran across this pic of him, shot in the early aughts, and three things about it jump out at me:
I recently ran across this pic of him, shot in the early aughts, and three things about it jump out at me:
- almost everything in that face is his father's
- except the eyes, which are his mother's
- he kept his hair a lot better than I'm keeping mine
something I am grateful for today
Jan. 7th, 2025 09:47 pm a clear sunny day, dry quiet roads, serene music in the car, and some peaceful time with just my thoughts
oh and a car heater that works [incl heated seat, woot!]
oh and a car heater that works [incl heated seat, woot!]
something I am grateful for today
Dec. 18th, 2024 05:46 pmGetting back into The Painting Groove®.
It's been weeks [months?] since I painted, largely due to adverse health circumstances, but also lack of ideas-slash-inspiration. But the deadline of Christmas looming has been making me fret, and I owe some people paintings as gifts, so I finally panicked enough to force myself once more into the breach.
I've noticed that, whenever I'm away from painting for a while, I eventually get to feeling like I have forgotten how. I lose what little confidence I've developed, and start to believe that whatever I produce now won't be any good. [Something similar happens with cartooning, but that feels more like gotten rusty than don't remember how.] But, in the last couple of days, I have finished the gifts that absolutely had to be done, and once I got about a third of the way into each one, I realized that they were turning out Okay Enough®, and I started feeling like I have a clue again.
I realize that the solution is “don't go so long without arting”, but this is me we're talking about here, so....
It's been weeks [months?] since I painted, largely due to adverse health circumstances, but also lack of ideas-slash-inspiration. But the deadline of Christmas looming has been making me fret, and I owe some people paintings as gifts, so I finally panicked enough to force myself once more into the breach.
I've noticed that, whenever I'm away from painting for a while, I eventually get to feeling like I have forgotten how. I lose what little confidence I've developed, and start to believe that whatever I produce now won't be any good. [Something similar happens with cartooning, but that feels more like gotten rusty than don't remember how.] But, in the last couple of days, I have finished the gifts that absolutely had to be done, and once I got about a third of the way into each one, I realized that they were turning out Okay Enough®, and I started feeling like I have a clue again.
I realize that the solution is “don't go so long without arting”, but this is me we're talking about here, so....
something I am grateful for today
Dec. 17th, 2024 09:22 amBeing stocked up on [most of the] stock-uppable things.
Knowing that, when I'm getting near the end of a container or package of something, there's another full one waiting somewhere. Not needing to worry that I might Run Out® — it's a gentle form of security, but a precious one.
Knowing that, when I'm getting near the end of a container or package of something, there's another full one waiting somewhere. Not needing to worry that I might Run Out® — it's a gentle form of security, but a precious one.
