Autumn is upon us (Where did the Summer go?)
Posted By Kathleen David on September 22, 2006
Lovely Day with autumn overtones is here just in time for the autumn equinox. Saturday is a busy day. Not only is it the autumn equinox, Rosh Hashanah (5767 if you are keeping up with the year Leshanah tovah tikateiv veteichateim) and the beginning of Ramadan but it is also Peter’s Birthday. We are doing family stuff on Saturday and invited friends to join us bowling on Sunday to celebrate.
I love that Caroline will ask me to draw her something and she thinks it is the coolest drawing ever. One day she is going to figure out that her mother can’t draw and that day I will be sad but right now I am the best artist in the world to her. She is working hard at imitating how I draw. We are working on squares and rectangles these days. Sometimes I think I just need to work on my ability to draw and maybe I can get better than I am. Then other times I look at what I did when I was a teen and what I am doing now and it is not much better than it was then (which wasn’t great). My brain just seems to work better in 3-D than 2-D. This was a dreaded secret for me until I learned that Wendy Froud has the same problem and now I don’t feel as bad about now.
There are times that I feel insecure as an artist. I have written in the past about how I didn’t see myself as such for years. Now I am much more comfortable with the title. Last week I went into a local brew pub that I like to have lunch and was asked by one of the owners if I was a local artist because one of the people who worked there wanted to ask me some questions. So that is how I am known in that establishment and I am fine with that.
Some cleaning got done yesterday but today is the push as Peter is taking Caroline with him to the gym giving me a 2 to 3 hour window to tackle the toy issues in the living room. Most of the rest of it is getting things back in place or out of sight.
I am grateful for finding missing toys.
First two words of your post made me think of this Kath. Happy Autumn.
Artist: Bill Withers Lyrics
Song: Lovely Day Lyrics
When I wake up in the morning, love
And the sunlight hurts my eyes
And something without warning, love
Bears heavy on my mind
Then I look at you
And the world’s alright with me
Just one look at you
And I know it’s gonna be
A lovely day
… lovely day, lovely day, lovely day …
When the day that lies ahead of me
Seems impossible to face
When someone else instead of me
Always seems to know the way
Then I look at you
And the world’s alright with me
Just one look at you
And I know it’s gonna be
A lovely day…..
When the day that lies ahead of me
Seems impossible to face
When someone else instead of me
Always seems to know the way
Then I look at you
And the world’s alright with me
Just one look at you
And I know it’s gonna be
A lovely day…
Lucky you with the autumn temps and all. We’re back into 100+ degree heat indexes today and about 65% humidity.
No.3 son’s Yr 12 Formal on Friday was lovely.
Both Saturday and Sunday were in the low 30s (celcius) – hottest September days a very long time. Saturday was daughter’s hockey Grand Final. It was hot and did I get sunburnt. The game ended up a 3 all tie, went into 20 mins extra time. We scored a goal in the last 2 minutes, but it was disallowed. The other team was declared the winner as they had finished the regular season 1 point ahead of us. Oh, well there’s always next season (though she’ll be U/15s then, not U/13s)
Sunday was very hot, as I already said, we also had gale force winds gusting up to 110km/hr. Blew down the neighbour’s garden shed. There were a lot of tree branches down as well. Bushfire season has started already. 4 houses were lost about 30 mins from my place (south western outskirts), 2-3 were lost on the north west side of Sydney We could see and smell the smoke. I hate to think about what it’s going to be like when Summer proper starts. Yesterday and today (Tuesday) are much cooler with tops in the low 20s. It’s overcast and cloudy now.
Belated Happy Birthday to PAD,
Regards
Megan