Category: Artistic Creations

Homemade things

A Fresh Start

I want to pop onto Bloggy one last time in 2021, just to bid formal adieu to a pretty funky year that was preceded by another pretty funky year. Since three’s the charm, it’ll be better this go ’round, right? New Year’s Eve is hours away. This morning Ma asked me if I had any resolutions. Nope. In this time of uncertainty, ambitious aspirations are beyond me. Instead, I’m taking a wait-and-see approach. For no […]

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Visions of Seasonal Things Dancing in Your Heads

My dreams lately haven’t been barrels of laughs, but it’s been a while since I had one of my usual night terrors—until a few nights ago. Boy, was it a whopper. Here are events that I suspect precipitated it: A week before, I’d learned I’d been exposed to Covid during one of my rare social visits outdoors. (Luckily I dodged that bullet, but man, were the ensuing days filled with waves of anxiety.)  A week […]

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“Slowing Thinking”

When I saw Susie the other day, I asked for a few clippings from her garden out front. I brought them home and made gelli prints. That big green leaf is not what you think it is. My wonderful doctor recently put me on a new medicine (Gabapentin) to alleviate some of the nasty effects of my nerve damage, and to help with another issue. I began taking it ten days ago and it wasn’t […]

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Conjugation

Yesterday, as you’ll remember, I included the following malapropism from an Amazon review of a camp shower: “When ever we left the water up to warm up, the squirrels would conjugate around it.” Last night, the person pictured below asked me to make a drawing of it. So here ya go, Lulu: Also last night, I had the loveliest video chat with my Chico clan. Eleni attempted Molly’s feat with her feet. And Ember, in […]

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