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The Home Fires

November 21, 2020

It’s that time of year when you begin to turn inward and be contemplative. The fires are welcomed and the light is short in the day time. The lamp light is needed for more hours and the coffee seems more important. My fuzzy bathrobe comforts me. I have work to do, but feel less inclined. I want to linger by the fire and drink my coffee longer. The clouds are promising to break up this morning and give us a sunny day. That will help my present stodgy frame of mind. I see patches of pale blue between the pink and blue clouds and just now, the sun broke through, steaming across the flower beds. I just saw Tabitha streaking across the yard. She then came dashing to the door to be let in. Her fur was standing up on her back. I didn’t see anything. But she is afraid of birds I think..lucky for them. Perhaps in her life, a hawk made an attempt on her life. She’s not terribly big. She’s back at the door again, settling into a crouch and observing the outdoors, safely behind the glass doors.

It promises to be a beautiful day. I am hoping this is the day I return to the studio. Yesterday was taken up with more technology and also some upset stomach from an antibiotic for this tooth problem. I spent a lot of the day on my computer trying to figure things out. I finished an application for a painting commission for the state of Vermont and I had a zoom meeting at 3 which was very informative. Today, I am posting directly on this blog page which in turn will be connected to twitter and facebook. Whew! I’ve learned how to add a photo etc. For some people this would be easy peezy, but for me, it felt like every step was counter intuitive! We are all taking steps forward the best we can in these tumultuous times. It’s unnecessary that they are this way, but then, greed and power have always played an outsized role in humanity’s existence. Like the wild male turkeys and bulls in the deer herds, dominance seems to be a necessity for most males. They have a pecking order and it feels like they have to go to war sometimes to sort this out, while the rest of humanity, mostly women ,children and old people suffer the consequences as collateral damage. We are expected to declare allegience to one side or the other while they massacre needlessly. But I digress. I will spend my time as the bible urges me to..to contemplate all that is good to hopefully overcome the needless cruelty brought about by power and greed.

So I’m back to the fire and its eternal comfort. what a gift, but if not tended carefully can also bring much pain. So it is safely contained in my fireplace and in my wood stoves. I hold my fire so to speak, and point my energies toward beauty today, hoping that it helps to overcome the evil that has been stirred up. Beauty is truth and truth is beauty says the poet.

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Tabitha, cozy in the farm house

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Dec 24, 2020
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Merry Christmas everyone! It will rain the next two days, which is very unusual for Vermont. I will meet up with family in a drive by, drop off presents and see folks with masks from the window in my pickup. They will give me dinner to go! And I will FaceTime my families in Maryland. Here is a snowy and very large painting for your pleasure. It is 4’x5’ oil on linen of a road in Hartland Vt just outside of Woodstock. It was an icey day and in the distance are some cows headed to feed time. I used to have beef and they stayed out all the time, and only under extreme circumstances, would they go into shelter. So a fresh round bale of hay in a hay feeder was what they looked forward to most of all. The painting is available and in Braintree Vt if you want to come by and see it. Cheers!

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