by penandinklings | Sep 2, 2025 | art, creativity, exploring
Catarpillar to Chrysalis There are signs before a Monarch caterpillar becomes a chrysalis if you know what to look for. Observation, awareness and curiosity led me to find those signs and then allowing myself the time to record this moment. So many times since I began...
by penandinklings | Mar 6, 2025 | acceptance belonging, art, caregiving, Just a Dog, Thoughts, writing
Hello. Today I introduce a new blog called Just a Dog. It is designed to record my journey with fostering dogs and all things dog that I’m learning. I’m now on my 7th foster. This time I have a small Jack Russell type sentient being named Cora. She was...
by penandinklings | Mar 5, 2024 | acceptance belonging, art, confidence, creativity, exploring, Letting go, relationships, Thoughts, Uncategorized, writing
Listen Examine Read On the crisp edge of this watercolor pear a boundary holds the form. On the other side there is a lost edge that allows the paint to wander out of the lines and back in again. My mind likes the hard edge because it’s safe, familiar,...
by penandinklings | Jan 4, 2024 | art, confidence, creativity, exploring, Thoughts, writing
The first day of a brand new year seems so ordinary. It’s new but I’m old. Before I stomp off into dismay and cast a shadow over my soul that is bleak, I pause to reframe. A new year is like a freshly set table full of possibilities of what’s to...
by penandinklings | Jun 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
That’s all I have to do. Why it is so difficult? Why am I so resistant? Steven Pressfield said it well in his book The War of Art: “Resistance”. That’s it? Plain, old resistance? Well I’ve come to know it’s not plain. And it never grows old. But it grows deeper as one...
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