Hello friends!
It has been quite the
summer of 2013.
There are many
wonderful changes, and Life is wonderful and Life is loud. I look forward to the cooler weather. Our last born son is continuing on his
education to become an architect, like his father! Our second son has advanced
to an much better employment schedual.
His wife and son are thriving and blooming. They are launching a photoart small buisness
on the side of his main job. My grandson
turned one in May and is an incredible sparkle of love. My eldest son is getting married!! He met a beautiful woman and they will be
joined in matromony in February with their two children, our grandaughter who
also turned one in August and our soon-to-be grandson who just turned seven. So
exciting!
I am learning to try
to stay in my being, when I drift away I feel lost. I am inching my way with my
fiddle head painting. I am in an artist
block for the first time in my life. Is
this labor? Hmmm. Recently, I have been to Italy which I have spoken about and
I have been to Canada on a family reunion cruise. I have 7 siblings, and everyone was there and
their significant others as well, totally the people tally to twenty-two. This number follows me. That is another blog though! I sought out
peace on the 12th deck in the back.
There was a lot of music and a continuous party atmospere. I guess you can describe me as perhaps a
loner? An artist type? It was good to see my brothers and sisters and
others. I love them dearly.
During this summer, my
husband and I went to several art museums including the Fenamore Art Gallery in
Cooperstown, New York. We also visited the Albany Institute of Art and History
on several occations. With the Fenamore
Art Gallery in Cooperstown, I embraced the solitude and quite. I never realized until this experience how
much I craved looking at beautiful art work and being still. The sun was bright and my husband and I went
to a natural food resturant afterwards.
I weave the days with much energies towards my family. We will be moving, first time in 16 years and
it is huge. Ah another log about this! I bid adieu for now.
I am including a quote
by CS Lewis below that I embrace with my family and my own children and
grandchildren. Enjoy this profound C. S.
Lewis quote that I agree with completely.
"There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be
vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly
be broken . If you want to make sure
of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even an animal.
Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all
entanglements; lock it up safe in ...the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe,
dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken ; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable,
irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy,
is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe
from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell. I believe that the most
lawless and inordinate loves are less contrary to God’s will than a
self-invited and self-protective lovelessness…We shall draw nearer to God, not
by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them
and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts
need to be broken , and if He chooses
this as a way in which they should break, so be it."
~ C.S. Lewis
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