Stop. Breathe. Allow yourself the luxury of doing nothing for a moment, or an hour, or
even a day. It is in emptiness that inspiration will appear. Carole Katchen
It's really fun to paint a picture and stand back and look at it. Then it's fun to put it on the computer and again stand back and look at it. Paintings look different in daylight than they do at night. They look different when they are framed and hanging on the wall and they look different on the computer. As I learn to look and really see, it amazes me how one painting can take on so many different looks. This painting is almost finished but not quite. I think just a few more details and I will be finished. I am learning to slow down and really look at my paintings just as I am continuing to learn what it means to slow down and appreciate and enjoy my life.
Each Friday I take a minute to reflect upon what I am grateful for. It amazes me how the list is almost always the same. But this list is a great reminder to me to take the time to thank the people that are important to me and who make a difference in my life and the lives of my family members. My list reminds me to take time each day to enjoy the sunshine or the rain. It reminds me to look at the sky and to stop and smell the freshly mowed grass and look at the beautiful new flowers. My list is rarely about big trips or new purchases. Those things are great but they don't happen often. It is the simple things that happen day after day that really make life special. And those are the things that I am most grateful for this week.
What are you grateful for this week?
wonderful painting Ginny!!!!
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