Tag: my birthday

• A Day at the Fine Arts Museum in Boston

  

  My paintings are now varnished up to date with a very subtle protective coat; I am sitting at home after a day at the museum. This photo is my own art at home now: the blue painting on the left, then a pink anemone, a famous botanical drawing print I’d found at a flea market…

  03/26/2023 8:35 pm

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• Ways to Calm in the Night

  

  (As I awaken and add in this photo, a blush of dawn palette 🎨, kisses sent up, as it gets light outside 🙂 * 3:30 am a nightmare not real not real… I notice the room, my breathing, distant lulling sounds, my whole body, my eyes are still open but I feel them relax…Going over…

  03/24/2023 6:38 am

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• Two Books, a Turtle, a Teapot

  This one is words only, but I will continue with each as they come up My sister Jenna and brother in law Wally gave me birthday gifts: 2 books I’d been wishing for, a fantasy novel by author Melissa Stacy, a book called Mark of the Pterren. I had found her book through my penpal…

  02/20/2023 3:39 pm

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• My Birthday

  

  😊 💕 a traffic jam sunset the night before

  02/19/2023 12:09 pm

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• Flown in, this Leaf Again

  

  Tomorrow is my birthday 🙂 (Feb. 19)…I will see my family in New York and celebrate my nephew’s first birthday! There was a little glue still; I knew it was the same one, and I rinsed it gently. My Nature Book I began yesterday night, with this sweet surprise from the day before: The Back…

  02/18/2023 8:47 am

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• Birthdays, Birthdays!, A Literary Salon Day, and ‘The Marching In’

  

  I awoke to the very lightest touch of blush in the dawn sky; it was seen only by looking more closely. It is Tuesday night and in recent weeks there has been lots of fun with paintings or pictures, a free sketch one night in my blank sketchbook from imagination, and painting from my imagination…

  03/01/2022 8:33 pm

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• Birthday Dinner and A Lingering Angel

  A homemade Palestinian birthday dinner by my brother in law and vibrant table decor by my sister.  I enjoy different places faraway and near, recent and long ago. The world is filled with a variety of artful things. Wally, the chef, put on traditional music when we were ready to eat. “Do people dance in circles…

  02/21/2021 1:45 pm

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