More Lost Days

A number of weeks ago I began a new painting, and was very much looking forward to spending time working on it. Then I came down with flu and was out of action for a couple of weeks (and I am still not entirely recovered). And now I am away from home, dog-sitting, so it will be some time before I can get back to my studio. 

I am watching movies, reading, going for walks, snuggling with my dog friend, and keeping warm on these chilly winter days; and I will probably remain quiet for a bit longer, though I do have some rather good news to share in time.

Happy solstice, whether you are celebrating it in winter or summer. 

Wise Words: To Know the Dark

For the first day of winter here in the southern hemisphere, this little poem seems apt. 

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.

(Wendell Berry, New Collected Poems, Counterpoint: Berkley, 2012, p. 121)