February 27, 2022

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Reflections on Painful Cyberspaces

So. Trying to hit the most mentally draining task first, this morning. This is what it is like: I am searching email under “orders” – to make sure I have downloaded any receipts for orders in 2021 and also notated in my clerical records. Because, need to do my taxes. Other things interdependent on THAT.While doing this, I also come across emails regarding actual orders from customers. I need to make sure that previous customer is on my newsletter contacts...

Sacred Spaces

I made this video yesterday afternoon, toward dark. Just thought I’d share it, along with copying the text I put with it on my YouTube. I have found recently uploading to YouTube is the best way to embed video for use on my blog. Yesterday I was listening to some George Winston, a song I find quite meditative, on loop, while also wanting to move a wheelbarrow full of dirt elsewhere to at least plant one row of snow peas....

Another Sunflower Mailbox Finished!

“Omgosh yaaaayy!!! I’m in love with it!!!” Those were the words tonight from my most recent Etsy “Sunflower Mailbox” customer, Krystal. It always feels good to hear this kind of excited feedback! These painted mailboxes are a bit labor-intensive (and very messy, requiring sign-painter’s oil enamel which can be challenging to work with in a number of ways – fumes, drips, stickiness, mineral spirits, dry time…) but the time and tlc required is rewarded knowing that my customer will feel...

I’ll Take Seven Clones (with magic wands), PLEEEZE??!!!

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and I plan to make this post mainly images (with some narration interspersed). So if my math is right, this post contains at least sixty-thousand words (plus, actual words, ha ha!) __________ But before I begin, I want to tell one of two jokes I’ve ever found memorable enough to memorize. It is unrelated to this post (the joke I will tell) except that my title brought the joke to mind....

Quail, Quizzical Quizzicism, Obstacles, Obstinence and Optimism

Quail. Quizzical Quizzicism: Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy??????!!!!!!! Obstacles, Obstinance, Optimisim…Context…Courage. __________ It would seem I’ve been to the Silicon-Valley-of-the-Shadow-of-Death-and-back in the past twelve hours and am still somewhat uncertain if I’m out of these dark, dark sandy, woods! After a wonderful three days of reconnecting with my cousin, Laura, after not seeing her for three years, I returned home last night already resuming my anxiety over the vast amount of needful promotional work and other projects to resume focus on, to find my...

Caricature Fun From My February Visit With My Cousin

In mid-February I got to visit my cousin Laura for a weekend – the first I had seen her and others in her family in about three years. It was a wonderful time of re-connecting and also on the agenda was attending a birthday party at her son Will’s home. My cousin had expressed some interest in learning to draw caricatures, so I had thrown my easel into my van. When I learned that there was a kid’s party, I...