The long-lost picture reappears. Doorway in Burano, Italy, 1997
I completed 5 or 6 of the tasks this week, and learned something from each one.
1. I completed morning notes every day. It continues to be a remarkably helpful exercise for me--I am never tempted to skip it.
2. I still avoided a true artist's date this week, but I think I got closer:
* I detoured from my appointed rounds one day for a half-hour visit at a nice LQS.
* I admired and photographed the display window at a local fabric store, which included an antique crazy quilt (I've been working on one, off and on, for several months).
* I began stopping along my way to work to photograph a local street art project, a collection of fiberglass sculptures scattered around town. As an homage to Music City, artists created guitars decorated however they were inspired. The first edition of the project was huge catfish scattered around town (not sure why--maybe it's our State Fish?!). My favorite at the time was one decorated like a Heinz ketchup bottle. I never took pictures of them, so I may be thinking more creatively this time around, because
* I take my camera with me everywhere I go now, and it's like taking blinders off. I'm really seeing my world.
3. I see synchronicity working all around me:
* Readers of my sewing room saga know that after 2 or 3 years of percolating in my brain, I leapt and the net appeared. It was a "worthy plan, an especially festive and expansive one" and the means fell into place.
* A minor matter to some, I found 3 lost objects in one week, one having been lost for 8 years. It was the negative of a photo I took in Italy that I loved and had blown up and framed. After the framing I realized I hadn't blown it up to the proper ratio so an interesting feature had been omitted. I have looked and looked for the original negative, blaming my poor husband because I never lose or throw away things like that. During a furious cleaning of drawers and closets that followed a major skirmish with him over establishing my sewing room, I found under a divider tray the envelope of negatives I had been looking for these 8 years! How they got there I have no clue. WHY I would choose that drawer, at that time, why I would dump out all the contents rather than just straighten them, I have no clue.
* Synchronicity is sooo working in Lee Ann's life right now that it's sort of spooking us out. In six weeks time she has returned here from SoCal; passed the Tennessee bar exam (which we didn't think would happen this round); began a busy career that she's enjoying; and it appears the young man of her dreams just fell over her at a museum reception, and I will not be surprised to be planning a wedding soon! As she said, "I wasn't counting on him!", so we are all rather stunned. (Ironically, he took her to an 8th grade dance 20 years ago, and she doesn't even remember him. Luckily he remembered her!)
4. Other issues significant to my discovery were:
* Taking Debra's cue I set written goals for myself, some of which I completed and some I did not. But I think it helped me be more focused and productive.
* I paused several times each day to ask myself how I was feeling. I did at least one nice thing for myself each day (more on this later), which was an unaccustomed priority for me.
* I am watching for support and encouragement from unexpected quarters, and open to gifts from odd channels. I'm not aware of receiving either so far, but sometimes we don't know till later that someone has done something for us.
* I am making more "worthy plans, especially festive and expansive ones." (Again, more on that later.) And I have a feeling that when I leap another net will appear.
I completed 5 or 6 of the tasks this week, and learned something from each one.
1. I completed morning notes every day. It continues to be a remarkably helpful exercise for me--I am never tempted to skip it.
2. I still avoided a true artist's date this week, but I think I got closer:
* I detoured from my appointed rounds one day for a half-hour visit at a nice LQS.
* I admired and photographed the display window at a local fabric store, which included an antique crazy quilt (I've been working on one, off and on, for several months).
* I began stopping along my way to work to photograph a local street art project, a collection of fiberglass sculptures scattered around town. As an homage to Music City, artists created guitars decorated however they were inspired. The first edition of the project was huge catfish scattered around town (not sure why--maybe it's our State Fish?!). My favorite at the time was one decorated like a Heinz ketchup bottle. I never took pictures of them, so I may be thinking more creatively this time around, because
* I take my camera with me everywhere I go now, and it's like taking blinders off. I'm really seeing my world.
3. I see synchronicity working all around me:
* Readers of my sewing room saga know that after 2 or 3 years of percolating in my brain, I leapt and the net appeared. It was a "worthy plan, an especially festive and expansive one" and the means fell into place.
* A minor matter to some, I found 3 lost objects in one week, one having been lost for 8 years. It was the negative of a photo I took in Italy that I loved and had blown up and framed. After the framing I realized I hadn't blown it up to the proper ratio so an interesting feature had been omitted. I have looked and looked for the original negative, blaming my poor husband because I never lose or throw away things like that. During a furious cleaning of drawers and closets that followed a major skirmish with him over establishing my sewing room, I found under a divider tray the envelope of negatives I had been looking for these 8 years! How they got there I have no clue. WHY I would choose that drawer, at that time, why I would dump out all the contents rather than just straighten them, I have no clue.
* Synchronicity is sooo working in Lee Ann's life right now that it's sort of spooking us out. In six weeks time she has returned here from SoCal; passed the Tennessee bar exam (which we didn't think would happen this round); began a busy career that she's enjoying; and it appears the young man of her dreams just fell over her at a museum reception, and I will not be surprised to be planning a wedding soon! As she said, "I wasn't counting on him!", so we are all rather stunned. (Ironically, he took her to an 8th grade dance 20 years ago, and she doesn't even remember him. Luckily he remembered her!)
4. Other issues significant to my discovery were:
* Taking Debra's cue I set written goals for myself, some of which I completed and some I did not. But I think it helped me be more focused and productive.
* I paused several times each day to ask myself how I was feeling. I did at least one nice thing for myself each day (more on this later), which was an unaccustomed priority for me.
* I am watching for support and encouragement from unexpected quarters, and open to gifts from odd channels. I'm not aware of receiving either so far, but sometimes we don't know till later that someone has done something for us.
* I am making more "worthy plans, especially festive and expansive ones." (Again, more on that later.) And I have a feeling that when I leap another net will appear.
4 comments:
Amazing week, Jane Ann! Congratulations on finding the missing negative - things like that drive me crazy - when you "KNOW" you didn't get rid of it, but where did you put it? I like the picture too.
Love the photo--I am a door-freak too, I always take many photos of doorways in my travels.
What is it about doorways? The unknown behind them, the promise of something good, escape from where we stand? I have several doorways too. This particular one I took because of the way they use curtains for screen doors. When the picture came back, I was really struck by the angularity of it. The walkway in front reminded me of my training in perspective renderings. The only curving lines are the wavy stripes fo the curtain and the ironwork above the door. I hadn't seen it until I studied the photograph.
I like doorways too. I took some interesting ones in Corpus Christi this weekend that I will share later on my blog.
You are really making progress! Keep going!
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