The contrasts are fascinating now, and how I’m responding equally so.

When I wanted to see only one thing, but saw only something else, and then I couldn’t see anything, until…

Pairing two seemingly dissimilar images together to show a similar relationship.

Maybe the vintage Lao fabrics were used to working with long time, slow time, enough time…

How colors appear, alter, emerge, transfer, and transmute…

When something is elusive and some things emerge…

It’s this time of year when we’re entering rest, yet there’s so much activity before we can rest.

How things aren’t still and energy is always moving and changing…

How glistening rain, plunging waterfalls, and swaying leaves made a chime…

Autumn’s longing takes me to places I wouldn’t choose, but I go in this season because she takes me there.

And then there were more leaves, especially from the river birch tree, as if to say that it was their turn to play.

Things come into existence, stay for a while, then leave again. Leaf art is inherently ephemeral. Maybe that’s what’s so compelling about it. 

Musings, music, and how stories change.

Procrastination showed me how far away I was, and let me feel the awkward off-ness of it all…

When there’s so much happening moment to moment.

It’s the sensation that was familiar, the muscle memory of holding the brush just so between my fingers, of dipping the brush in ink, and the careful touch of black ink to white paper.

Kintsugi could show the way of mending, perhaps – of filling the spaces between, of sealing the missing spaces, or holding close what I left behind so long ago.

When do we decide to shed what no longer benefits, or what is no longer true, to reveal something else of our self? And when do we decide to keep our spiky exterior too, because we really do still need that sometimes?

It didn’t seem to want to follow my usual way, or the usual expectations I have of how a chime is “supposed” to be when I make it.

Tell the story as if you are journeying on the chime. It kept coming back to her in the following days.