Summertime – and the living is easy!

I finally made it back into the clay studio this week, thanks to girlfriend who wanted to play in the mud and several commissions.  Included in the commissions was 2 Ugly Fish to trade for glass beads with glass artists Sue Page.  Most happy to oblige!

So I posted that on FaceBook and all the Ugly Fish lovers came out of the wood work.

Well, Ugly Fish are cute.  And if you aren’t cranking them out in production mode, they’re fun to make.  So I made 4 which gave me 2 extra.  Clear to me I need to make a few more.  They will possibly buy xmas gifts for me this year! 

Have been relaxing this week, and  browsing around and making lots of new friends on Facebook and through that finding lots of lovely writing and pretty things to share.  Thought today would be as good a day as any to do that!

First:  Do you know Choosing Beauty?  They have weekly giveaways, and this week they’re giving away a print of my “I Know I Have Found My Way Home” watercolor.    All you have to do is go to their site and “Share one thing about yourself that few people know.  A hidden talent, a secret wish, a quirky collection, a giant fear?  Time to celebrate that part of you!

And you know I love celebrations!  So spread the word.

Here are the Good Things

1.  Author Patti Digh (her most excellent book:  Life is a Verb), shared a new poet today on her blog, Maya Stein.  Wonderful little slices of life – go see! (Okay, technically that could be 3 things, but we’ll only call it one and be grateful for abundance).

2.  Julie Daleys post, Grace Like Rain , which is third in a series that started with Tenderness and Power.  Julie is a recently added “friend” on FaceBook.  One of the reasons I love Facebook:  there are so many people out there sharing such lovely ideas…and now we have ready access! (x 3 must be today’s lucky number!)

3.  A great idea for a Virtual Board of Directors written by Zoe Routh and presented by Jeannette Maw on the Good Vibe University site. (three again!)

There’s some great reading for you, and some things to chew on mentally.  Enjoy!

Wylde Women’s Wisdom

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Empty time is time to lie in bed and contemplate dreams or the marks on the ceiling, time to go for an aimless walk or sit by the fire staring at the flames while pretending to read.  Empty time is time to rest, renew and replenish by following the impulse of the moment.  Empty time is time to slow down, to find the stillness and spaciousness that allow us to stop all the doing and simply be.  If there is one thing that consistently stops people committed to doing creative work from doing it, it is this:  a lack of necessary silence in their lives, an inability or unwillingness to find and stay with the stillness to regularly create empty time in their day or their week.  If there is no time when absolutely nothing is expected or scheduled, we are not likely to arrive at the appointed hour ready to do our creative work…the spaciousness of empty time in our lives allows that which lights a fire within us to find and to speak to us.  Oriah Mountain Dreamer