Sunshine on Sunday
Soon to be Monday
Look forward to some day
Focus on one day
The one I am in

Sunshine on Sunday
Soon to be Monday
Look forward to some day
Focus on one day
The one I am in

Posted in A Beautiful Day, Life, NaPoWriMo, Oggi, Poems, RETIREMENT, Water color
Tagged Aspiring to Art, Gratitude, NaPoWriMo, Poem, RETIREMENT, short poem, Water color, Yer' Art
Buy the watercolors
from Japan
Spend more
then before
I think you can
Someday you may not care
to draw or paint at all
Then you can refrain
while feeling virtuous
for being restrained
Ah, go ahead

Posted in Art?, NaPoWriMo, RETIREMENT, RETIREMENT RIFFS, Today, Water color
Tagged Aspiring to Art, NaPoWriMo, Poem, Poetry, Poetry Maybe, RETIREMENT RIFFS
I’m not bereft
Because I’m not deprived
…feeling quite happy to be alive
Although if I weren’t alive
I never would know
and happiness and contentment
would have no place to go
But I digress…
At the moment I am in…all is well
What happens next…
You never can tell!

Posted in Coffee, Gratitude, Life, Oggi, Photos, Poetry of sorts, RETIREMENT, RETIREMENT RIFFS, thoughts
Tagged Aspiring to Art, Poem, RETIREMENT RIFFS, Today, Yer' Art
So…….my husband made this spoon for me for Christmas. From a branch that was trimmed from our maple tree. The wood is called spalted maple. I don’t plan on using it to cook with since he used danish oil as a finish but it sure looks beautiful in my kitchen.


I think it’s the bread that still might be the culprit….but I’m not sure about that.
Still eating things like this:
Breakfast: Spinach, carrot, celery, strawberry, almond milk smoothie
Lunch: Homemade minestrone soup with Italian bread
Dinner: Green salad; veggies sauteed in Italian tomato sauce and quinoa
Snack: Grapenuts
and peanuts.
Posted in Eat to Live, Eating to Live - Living Healthy, Health, Vegan, Vegetarian, Water color
Tagged Aspiring to Art

Table made by my husband, Jesse.
Fixing healthy meals can be, on many occasions, therapeutic, and maybe even artistic, creative, and an exercise in being in the middle of something worth doing. The colors involved are kind of amazing.