EXCLUSION

Exclusion of the heart is most painful. That sentence may not have made sense. In other words, when someone doesn't want your love.

  

food for thought: “He drew a circle that shut me out.”—E. Markham

COMPOSITION

When it comes to art, I don’t know much about composition. I fear if I do, I may not draw again. And I don’t like fear. 

food for thought: “I’m much more comfortable with a composition book.”—me

INCOMPLETENESS

There is incompleteness to my drawings and that’s okay by me. I don’t want that haunting curse to bother me. I’m having too much fun.

food for thought: “Artistry’s haunting curse, the Incomplete.”—Browning

PART

I apparently skipped the 51st thesaurus word, so here it is. Don't know what this is about, look at some later posts and you'll get it... maybe.

Part of my problem is I can’t seem to make the book into a reality. Which is why I’ve been taking a break from blogging and working on my books to make them a reality.

(I felt like I had blogged about this and perhaps I did, but just in a different way.)

food for thought: “Fools! They know not how much half exceeds the whole.”—Hesiod

It's Official

I decided to wait until the 30^th of the month to post—that’d make it official that I hadn’t blogged in, well, a month. I stepped off the grid for a while. I’ve put my attention on other things… like people. I write letters, you know.

I just read a really good book called The Last Letter from Your Lover by Jojo Moyes. It only inspired me to write more letters… not necessarily love letters, but really, aren’t all letters a type of love letter? You are giving of yourself and that’s love. I could go on and on about that, but I won’t.

The next word in my thesaurus, along with my drawing is number 52, Completeness and I thought I’d continue to share, just not every day.

I feel a sense of completeness when I’m coloring my drawings. It really is meditative.

food for thought: “What do you do that is meditative?

Seriously...

For those of you who have been so kind to be tortured fulfilled in viewing my sketches every day for the past three months, I'd like to thank you. Yes, I blogged every day since April… I wanted to hold myself accountable to someone so that I would sketch every day. I’m pretty sure I got it down. So much so, I’ve decided to illustrate my own children’s book. I'm not sure if I have what it takes, but I'm willing to try. Oh baby. Since blogging daily and drawing daily takes up a lot of time, the only way I’m going to tackle illustrating a children’s book is by doing it. Something has to give. I’ll post once a week just to show you my progress… with drawing. Oh, and I still plan to tackle the thesaurus and drawing to the words, I’ll just be on a bit of a break from that for a while... I only have some 700+ words to go.

Until next week, enjoy and wish me luck!

WHOLE

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Have you ever looked at the word whole and really thought about it? And if you took off the W, you have a hole. Is there such a thing as a whole hole?

Now that’s a whole donut.

food for thought: “The be-all and the end-all here.”—Shakespeare

DECOMPOSITION

Did you know that the decomposition of raw potatoes will happen in water, in the fridge? They virtually disappear.

food for thought: “It went to pieces all at once,— / Just as bubbles do when they burst.”—Holmes

COMBINATION

The combination of drawing and writing is working for me.

food for thought: “Great is the strength of feeble arms combined.”—Homer

INCOHERENCE

Go see yesterdays post… it’s just the opposite. I’m coming unglued. But here is my blind drawing of Jessica’s ukulele

and then me looking at the ukulele.

food for thought: I’ve got nothing.

COHERENCE

The coherence of all these words in my brain might be pushing the envelope. But I could lick it shut, which might help.

food for thought: “Only throw dirt enough and some of it is sure to stick.”—T. Hughes

BOND

There’s something quite satisfying when you bond with someone, especially with someone you just meet.

 food for thought: “Blest be the tie that binds.”—Fawcett

DISJUNCTION

There’s been many a disjunction in my life. But I’m better for it.

food for thought: break all to smithereens…

When my girls and I went to Joplin for my friend Geoff’s memorial service, Jessica made a CD with a variety of songs on it. One was “ Walking on Broken Glass” by Annie Lennox. Jessica said she remembered when they were all little and I drove them to school, we’d all rock out to this song. I couldn’t remember. Surprise.

But tell me what you think when you hear this song…

JUNCTION

One of the words listed in the thesaurus is “hookup” for the word junction, and so this one is for you Casey. I’ve used the term hookup loosely telling Casey that maybe he and his friend could hookup. He’d roll his eyes at me and sigh, “Mom, please. I won’t be hooking up with her.”

 

And what does the locket (below) have to do with anything? Well, it came 'unhooked' and I lost the little handmade book inside that my daughter Rita made me. Wah.

food for thought: “Seas but join the regions they divide.”—Pope

SIMPLENESS

The thesaurus also says: ‘See mixture’ and then states: Freedom from Mixture. – This to me seems odd. I guess if something involves simpleness or simplicity, there’s no need to stir anything in to the mix. Unless you make rice krispie treats, but those are simple, and simply good!

food for thought: I’m sure I’m giving a glowing look at how unintelligent I am. Dur. However, I never did claim to be a genius. But now for the serious business: do you like rice krispie treats?

MIXTURE

 I am a mixture of all my past lives and I want to learn from them all.

food for thought: “There is also a mixture of good and evil wisely distributed by God.”—Atterbury

REMAINDER

 For the remainder of my life, I hope to always give with love.

food for thought: What would you like to do with the remainder of your life?

ADJUNCT/DECREMENT

Two words, because you see they are both #39.
Adjunct – also see addition, but as a noun it says: tab, tag, flap, lug, lapel, apron, fly, tuck, lap…

go figure, I say. 

Decrement—also see deduction.

food for thought: I’m kind of an apron freak. What about you?

Happy Moving Forward Brother Brian!

I’ve only recently got to know Brother Brian when I took one of his sketch/journaling workshops, which has inspired me to draw (every day! hence, the posts here since April). The last time I saw Brother Brian, I found out that he will be relocating. I said something about ‘going away’ and he didn’t correct me necessarily, but restated it as “moving forward.” I hadn’t thought about it that way, and I like it. Today is not the day he is moving forward, but it is the day I will get to see him and say “best of luck in moving forward.” Check out his blog: abz paperless sketchbook journal.

This sketch is on part of a wall in my 'writing room' and something on this wall Brother Brian created...

DEDUCTION

I’d like to see a deduction in the amount of dust bunnies that float around in this house.

food for thought: “What deduction of something do you want?