November 9--Make Something!

If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them... they could perceive what they have made of us.  --Albert Camus

Love is an ideal thing; marriage a real thing: A confusion of the real and the ideal never goes unpunished. --Johann Wolfgang Goethe

    The second quote came from one of my daily readings and it made me smile. 

    Cutting off my Google news feed has given me insight into how much time I spent reading "news." I have determined that painting is going to be the activity at home that saves my sanity over the next four years. I just finished the painting below. I am going to give my two most recent paintings to my grandsons for Christmas. It is important for me to give them Grammie-created things. Both will have a crocheted blanket, a Christmas stocking and a painting. I want to encourage their creativity in every way I can, to help them understand that we create to bring forth what is in us and it is all good. Our creativity is first and foremost to please us. If someone else digs our work, that's cool but not essential. 

    Hanging onto "one day at a time" and "this, too, shall pass."

        Leta

By yours truly