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 | Aug 6, 2008 | Thoughts
The fragrance of line-dried linens gathers in the room and swirls around with the steam of my hazelnut coffee up into the heavenly, high ceiling, white. And down again along the edge of my mind pulling me along the tail end of a dream lost many years ago. The curtains...
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