Showing posts with label gratitude. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gratitude. Show all posts

Monday, November 15

Art is a Gratitude. To Create is to Demonstrate It.

Glass installations by Dale Chihuly.
When was the last time you went out and stopped to sense with your senses and appreciate handiwork? It's been a little while, for me.
We all have a desire to create. It just depends on how effective we are at listening to self-criticism. And how much we give our time to the worthy pursuit that it can be.
(Giving myself a half-point for perusing through shops on Etsy.)
Embroidered watch faces
Handmade Pottery
It seems that I've been in a little stream bed of enlightenment.
And if you have two additional minutes, please read:
The Stream bed:
It's an interesting process, I think. An appreciation turning into an action happens here a little and there a little.
But it's hard to miss because it is everywhere. It can change me.
And I'm tinkering with the idea that I am capable of it too.
It's been a while. For art, I mean. I'm still dancing, writing, cooking, agriculture-ing, designing, and taking photographs.
But I'm drawn to more....
It's good for me, and
I'm too grateful to resist the attempt.
(Self-portrait in "End of the Day" Reflection, Chihuly.)