I am finally back from a long weekend of running around with my family up North. I love my family and I hope they love me but I’m so glad to be home and quiet and retired.
As if those two things go together.
I worked all my life to be able to sit on the deck and have coffee at the same time others are turning on their computers and making their first phone calls of the day.
Now that peace and quiet is always at the back door I find I can’t let it in for too long. It’s like my mind has turned A.D.D. on me.
If you’ve kept up with me on my blog you see me rewriting a novel, making sun catchers, drawing and sketching abstract emotions, opening an Etsy shop — I make myself tired.
Yet I have a new idea.
Bear with me.
Soon the craft show circa will be over. I accompany a group of typical male bonding fishermen up North for over a week so they can fish and tell fish stories and fish some more before we close the cabin. To take advantage of that down time, I have picked out several of last year’s drawings that I’d like to convert to watercolor paintings, resplendent with texture and 3D-ishment.
Once I finish all these paintings I’d like to have an open house gallery show with all these marvelous (insert roll of eyes here) creations and, along with purse charms and sun catchers, donate the proceeds to charity.
Where did this idea come from??? Should I even consider such nonsense?
Of course, all depends on the quality of the paintings, something I haven’t done in a long time. And how long this keeps my interest.
I am already finding new artists for my Gallery that blow my socks off and sharing my crafts with local consignment shops and getting ready for one more craft shows and football games and grandkids’ soccer games.
I should be satisfied with the crazy pace my life is already. But peace and quiet goes hand in hand with crazy and busy.
I hope your life is full of all four.
Let’s do this together!!
I get the family part. This is a 1- minute song by a friend that sums it up. https://youtu.be/-8LQ4LaSJrg?si=HnLXtNMdkrR-Z9WS
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We’re all family, man … heh … and we encourage diversity!
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Good luck in all of your artsy endeavors. Do whatever feels right.
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Thank you my friend. More importantly, do what feels fun!!
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Like many retired people, I ask my busy self, how did I ever have time for a job. Retirement keeps me busy from sun up til after dark. Family and friends. Travel. Pets. Hobbies. I commend your busyness and hope you continue to enjoy it all.
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Yes! We laugh about the having time thing all time! I’ve never had a lot of free time, although family always takes up most of it. Now I have more creative time, and that’s where I think I get in overload mode. Great ideas, minimum talent, minimum energy — I should be pumping it up!
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life couldn’t be life without a bit of chaos blended with peace and quiet
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Indeed. It’s like the happy/sad continuum. Can’t have one without the other … although I don’t necessarily agree.
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💕💕
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Nobody is going to break your stride! I love it. Sounds like me. I’m trying to slow down and my body says, Please stop! But I just can’t. Maybe next year.
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Thank you my friend! I think a lot of my ambition is in my head — my body is always way behind my mind. I’m learning to fit my creative spells into my kick back time.
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