what i have been doing this month
(besides applying for jobs, some manual labor for my sisters, driving my mama around to the doc's and out to lunch, trying to have a positive attitude and all kinds of etc)

i have been cleaning out a big box of paper ephemera and leftover photos and all kinds of strangeness that i could just not bear to put into the trash before i left kansas. i *did* put a LOT in the trash, but some, i couldn't. and i *still* couldn't, even here, cleaning up, still trying to release some of this artMess. so i used it in the most obsessive way. along with all my scraps of watercolor paper and card stock - some old paints and stickers. oil pastels. pretty much fun! the box is now half empty and i have over 50 completely reversible collages in various sizes, all smelling sweetly of beeswax.

ha. i guess i will get some waxed paper and store them away now. until i find a crusty old wall that i can hammer small rusty nails into and hang them all up at once. that would be nice.

what next, i wonder?

gosh. it's been a while, hmm? i've not had too much to share. my March photo folder is just pitiful. not many words either. a bit too much solitude for a while, but getting better. manual labor is a healthy activity and i have been doing lots of it in my sister's yard. lots of rain, but that is GOOD (even if a bit depressing after days and days of gray and damp), because it means WILDFLOWERS - especially bluebonnets. and peach orchards ... and bright green edges to the highway. spring is here and it is lovely in Texas.

otherwise, same as it ever was ... juggling life's balls, some good, some bad. but spring and the song of the white winged dove are generating a greater sense of possibility. and what could be finer than my fortune cookie today?

"Be prepared to accept a wondrous opportunity in the days ahead!"

i AM! bring it ON! and thank you.