Aug. 26, 2010
No....you are correct...I didn't Blog yesterday....I could tell you it's because it was to bloody HOT, even into the night...to hot to sit at a computer...that's for sure....and this would all be True...BUT....
As I sat on the infamous "Purple Couch" in the late afternoon, contemplating whether or not I could suffer through working on a costume in this heat for a play I'm currently working for, (in real life I'm a Costumer, yes a Costumer by day and Mad Cap Blogger by night...), I decide No...no, no and no...I could not suffer the weight of a Wedding Dress and the hand work it requires, in this Heat....(the Wedding Dress is a costume for the play)....
I eyeball the book I'm currently and obsessively reading right now entitled....All We Ever Wanted Was Everything by Janelle Brown....I decide it must be cooler outside, so I gather my book AND the Reading Glasses and walk outside to the pool...ahhhh sweet serenity....dangling my legs over the edge of the pool I plop open my book and begin to read....my youngest girl wanders out, art supplies in tow and quietly take a seat on the brown woven chaise....as I read and my daughter draws out her latest inspiration with her Oil Pastels....out wanders my daughter-in-law..."I'm gonna start the barbecue" she says, "okay, you wanta' eat outside?" I ask...."yeah" she says with a smile..."yeah, we can do that...."
As she comes back with a bag of briquettes...toddling behind is my youngest grandson and his big brother....I put down my book as big brother plunges into the pool and the youngin' pulls off his diaper and wanders over to the pool steps...I move with him and help him into the pool...a friend and her baby drop by, sitting beside me with her beautiful little girl, she dangles her legs over the edge into the cooool blue water of the pool....my sons wander in with hamburger buns and such for the barbecue...it's a gathering....
I sit back and take it all in....I am so in love with my life, my family...I wonder where exactly is my camera right now....but I can't move...I don't want to miss ONE moment of what is happening around me...the sudden burst of laughter, the giggling, the murmur of conversations....no I don't want to miss it....I am trying to burn these images and sounds into my heart and my mind...it's my attempt to capture these moments permanently....the organic happenings of my family, my daily life....Oh how I cherish them...each and everyone of my children, my friends....
These moments can't repeat themselves...just like the birth of each child is different, so are the moments of our lives....it's important to sit back and take note....everything else can wait....everyone else can wait....sometimes it's just about what is happening right now....some of the quietest moments of our lives are the most impacting, transforming....
So....I can't promise you this won't happen again...a day missed occasionally in my endeavor to blog my way through the Art Book slash Journal....that I'm currently IN LOVE with....but what I'm learning is this is part of that journey....my book blogging journey...the one that started off as an Artistic out let and is becoming an artistic, spiritually grounding journey, instead....
Embrace...Enjoy....Free Yourself...to Live LIFE OUT LOUD!
Blessings & JOY! Love, Alexia
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