HALFWAY THERE

The year is half over. I have completed some design work, found new shops that will carry my books and / or cards. My goal to get moving again is in motion, but as always something happens to slow the progress. Being home does not mean endless hours to draw, paint and write. There is so much that needs to be done and tended to that like a homesteader, house, garden and general maintenance comes first. It all takes a full days time.

But there are some days where I manage to put aside a few hours for my artwork and writing.

Those are the days when I pull out the work and manuscripts I had begun and move forward with whichever seems ready to flow. I have the writing for a new book I hope to publish next year completed, but now the illustrations need to be done. The ideas have floated in my head and in sketches, but now I really want to complete them and am giving myself a time frame for a project that is halfway there.

I also have 3 other book ideas and some paintings to go with them, none are complete but they too are on their way to becoming whole.

Sometimes I get worked up and frustrated because I am not moving forward. Not creating. Not achieving that which I so enjoy doing. I want in this time of computers and “video everything” to put out things that I feel are important , real and part of our history that goes as far back as the first cave paintings and the first communications of a happening. Old fashioned and out of date some may say, but the reality is when people take time to stop and look around they can see the beauty that really is there. There are lovely things and lovely people. Wonderful stories. In a way when they do, they are halfway back to the real in life. Some pick up on that and others move on again as if they temporarily stopped for a dream.

I will get back on the road to completing what I have started and perhaps I will finish my projects for after all, I am halfway there.