I searched my files to find soft scenes for this so hot summer heat wave...
Something to take me away from the excessive 45 degree heat..
Plant more trees ….these places are lovely in summer too, when the trees are full of leaves.
I have been drawn to a couple of articles lately on busyness..gosh how do I spell the word ?
When life is filled to the brim with scheduled activity...
Been there done that but only ever used the diary when I had to in the office.
When I left that world behind
I deliberately started to etch out a less time driven day...
No time piece unless I need to make an appointment...
I walk a lot of my time in an unhurried way...
No, I am not so laid back I do not observe my world.....
I watch how we are governed, I see the influences...
I watch nature.
Late yesterday I was swapping hoses over on the tap to water pots around the back..
Just below the tap I spot a very brown looking bee.
It is thirsty ?
Drop a weeniest drop of water just nearby & watch the bee struggle up the ledge to drink or cool, so I added another bit & left it …
I hope it has survived the dry heat.
If I was on a schedule I may not have even noticed the bee....
it is that beautiful ability in us all to ….
Stop & TAKE time...moments... but take them.
My work has at times been very busy & then the home time has blurred & as I do it all, sometimes things have been sacrificed.
I do like some list of to do's and tick off that sense of achievement....
But to be booked in for weeks in advance would scare me & I bet, how I wander would scare others.
I was wired this way or developed that sense of freedom very early … so my natural state is this bliss.
I take opportunities often as they present...
not always do they all work out....
&
I seemed to have developed this love of moving into different environments & resettling....unsettled ….critised for this... envied too.
In this I have to adapt ….
The kitchen is different, the bedroom is there, the bathroom is here, only one outdoor tap, traffic, silence, the beach, the country side, a city. Where to shop, how to get from a to b
Nothing is perhaps familiar...
Except my work which is a fundamental part of me now....
The designs don't happen on a schedule....painting often does BUT I am turning that around now over time to make better working practices for me...
I am busy in my world but it is a different style of busyness …
One of my artist friends & I, often discuss this way of life... how we begin to shift the way we are living in the world ...we start to make changes...it is hard to explain.
Maybe farmers get this,& gardeners too, they sense changes in seasons, the subtle differences in weather, the way their animals start to behave, the crops etc...
SERENITY
So what just came into my mind then was to be set a drift in a boat, down a soft moving creek, amongst trees ...drifting & have an oarsman I see...
It is cool there on this summer's day
Nothing to do with the crafts I work in but then again everything ...
