Elizabeth Gilbert said it well.

“Possessing a creative mind, after all, is something like having a border collie for a pet: It needs work, or else it will cause you an outrageous amount of trouble. Give your mind a job to do, or else it will find a job to do, and you might not like the job it invents (eating the couch, digging a hole through the living room floor, biting the mailman, etc.). It has taken me years to learn this, but it does seem to be the case that if I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something (myself, a relationship, or my own peace of mind).”

―from Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

I can add nothing to that. These pages are a part of my work.

2021-2022

What Matters?

I was reflecting on the connectedness of humans, and it made me curious. What is going on with all of us? What are we carrying as we go through our days? I decided to ask, and am collecting the responses in this photo album.

2021

An Improv Suit

The frame around my vocation at this time was celebration of the human spirit. As I was exploring that, I was invited to participate in Jean Cherouny’s Improv Suits. The timing was perfect, because I needed something other than words to begin to express that idea. Here is a log of my effort at that.

2009-?

My Gardens

I imagine I’ll work on this space for as long as we live here; the gardens and I continue to evolve. I love this piece of land, and it seems to love me back.