The Days, The Hours, The Moments: Day 161 ~ “This Is My Letter To The World” In Process (8 pictures)…

I wanted to share the process with you and for myself. Laid out like this I can get a feeling for how my own work is progressing. I’ve a good bit to go, I don’t know if I will finish it tomorrow or not but I might. I will be home working all day tomorrow. I would have gotten further today but I had to take Molly to the vet this afternoon and allow time to do the blogpost, but it is coming along.

It’s an amazing thing to go from drawing and painting random pictures to finally realizing that it could really be a book and how it could come together. With this particular painting I have the feeling that the book itself has begun. Of course there’s a long way to go and I’m in no rush. And, as I said at the end of last week, I may do more than one version of this particular painting until I feel that it’s just right. In my mind this isn’t it but it’s close. I won’t try to do another version right away, it’s enough that I pretty much know what I want it to be and I need to sit with it awhile and let it rest. I have scores of ideas for pictures and even see, now, that this could be a series of books, but I’m getting way ahead of myself with that idea, it’s just a fun thing to think about and when I’m painting my mind soars ahead imagining where it might all go, what it may one day be, even though, for now, just the process of “becoming” is enough, exciting, expansive, delightful.

Molly had a recheck at the vet today, it’s been 2 weeks on meds and it seems like she has healed. She’s through with the meds for now (except for the supplement she will be taking ongoing, Dasuquin) but our vet sent me home with more medication for me just to have here. These back issues could come back, even become a chronic issue, and while I surely hope not we both agreed that it was better to have the meds on hand. Dr. Redfern said she didn’t want me to have to deal with Molly starting to scream late one Saturday night when the vet’s office is closed! I will have medicine on hand until I can get her to the vet. Better have it and not need it than the other way around.

And now it is time to walk Molly, feed her, and do a cooking for the next 4 days. These are such happy days, creating, loving wee Molly, enjoying spring, planting things and tending them, cooking good meals. This is happiness. This is bliss.