December 11--OK So Far

To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is preparation.  --Rainer Maria Rilke

    We are now two weeks away from Christmas. My plan to be less-Grinchy is working well, despite the fact that my friend is sending me photos from Jamaica (where I was with them the past three Decembers). I completed another painting (below). I have been debating whether I want to tinker with it more, but I am having ideas for another painting, so I suspect this one is finished. 

    I scored a set of 600 (yes, six hundred) LED lights with multiple functions at an estate sale for $4. It took me two days to attach them to our backyard lilac shrub. There is a plain white light setting, so I can leave them on the bush all year round, making it worth the effort. I have made progress in sewing gift bags to treat the neighbors. I am gradually getting my favorite Christmas decorations on display. My husband is putting up outside the ultra-cool, permanent, programmable, under-the-eaves lights.

    All that makes for a good life flow, yet I still have no idea what will be happening on Christmas Day or when we might see our kids or have our gift exchange. Mercifully, Christmas will come and go whether or not plans are made.

    Going with the flow,

        Leta

The "speckled" sections are glitter paint.