The Place Where I Am Now

This is not the place I need to be for very long.

I am in that transitional phase where you take on something new (and large) in your life that upsets the balance of things. This means that I have to figure out how to fit in all of the other parts of me into this new task. It’s hard.

I did manage to spend the entire day Saturday painting. From 9am to 9pm I painted. It was amazing and I have missed it. Really missed it.
Today I am also painting like a crazy artist person trying to get some commitments finished, completed and out the door. I need to do this so that I can get those commitments met. They are overdue and wearing on me heavily. Yet, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and I am smiling with the knowledge.

By next Saturday I will be free entirely of art commitments and can then sit down and paint some of the paintings that have been lingering in my mind for over four months. Imagine not being creative (the soul kind of creative) for four months. It has been a rough ride for me and I am grateful that it is almost over and then the good stuff can begin.

It is cold here today (57 degrees at 12 noon). It isn’t cold by the standards of anyone who doesn’t live in a Southern area like I do, but last week the high was 98 and this is a wonderful change. I am a Florida native so this is as cold as I care for, and I can’t take it for too long, but it is just right at this moment.

Here are a few of the fruits of yesterdays labor (the commitments in progress).