Crit Request

On the wall now:
Too many birds? Circles? I think I need to wash over some of the circles with pale blue or white to tone them down. Also perhaps I will add weight on the left. What goes in the bottom right corner? Something warm, perhaps, to echo the top right, and the right hand tree.

Breakfast Crisis and New Vocabulary

From the Globe Business section today comes news of the impending frozen waffle shortage.
Also worth a visit today, an article about alternative swear words. I vow to add "Hooshtah!" to my conversation.

I want to sew, but today is vacuuming, cooking, and doing the household books. Bah humbug. So I am reading movie reviews instead. I did draw in the kitchen last night , with "Says You" for company.

Advice from the Masters

"Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow - whether there is a market for it or not! The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward..."

"I would tell all of you watching this screen: Before you go to bed, write a four line poem. Make it as good as you can. Don't show it to anybody. Put it where nobody will find it. And you will discover that you have your reward. " - Kurt Vonnegut

Inspired by this, I took an arm-load of pieces to the big studio and worked. Caffeine, music, think, sew. Five hours later I have two pieces on the design wall and at least four pieced and ready for the next step. No wonder I've felt restless:

And from Annie Dillard, remembered by Alexander Chee: “You are the only one of you...Your unique perspective, at this time, in our age... is what matters. Don’t worry about being original...Yes, everything’s been written, but also, the thing you want to write, before you wrote it, was impossible to write. Otherwise it would already exist. You writing it makes it possible.”

Still wish someone else would make supper...