Waiting For Full Bloom

Agave Tears, 2010, gouache and india ink on paper

A new addition from last year that I had forgotten to highlight in my drawing section of my website. This is a picture from my series on reflections from the three months I spent living and working on a permaculture farm in Maui, Hawaii. This series has been left wanting and waiting for my return--a product of a mere three weeks of solid focus before jetting off again to spend another two months in Manila. I like to think that I keep my promises to my work, but more often than not, these romances are brief and fleeting. Not for a lack of substance in subject matter, but a failure on my part to remain on one cloud for an extended amount of time.

Still Here In My Lazy Bones

I've taken a fairly long hiatus from the blogoshpere. I like being offline and enjoy the sweet respite it brings; but unfortunately, I've also been away from my own headspace--my thoughts more akin to balloons flying high above anything that would make sense of them. It's been a good few months of rolling with the punches without a moment to my own version of events. I have been traveling far and wide: visiting a distant home in Manila, before visiting a less-distant home in Chicago; and shortly after, receiving a friend from my past home of London to stay with me in San Francisco for a month. We've trekked to the mountains of the west coast; the beaches of southern California; the dry desert of Death Valley; the neon lights of Vegas; and the astronomical crevices of the Grand Canyon in Arizona. I have not stopped to process any of it. Not yet. This blog entry is my first attempt to resuscitate all connections dormant within me.

New Year, Still Me

The Road Ahead, picture taken in Nevada, Summer 2010

Instead of a New Year, New Me, I've decided to stick to the old me. I kind of like the 2010 version of me, so I'm going to introduce her to 2011 and see what more she can do in the new year without the need to go bonkers with a list of New Years Resolutions. Bah humbug to NYRs. They do nothing but emphasize all of our weaknesses without celebrating any of our strengths. I think what one should really do in the new year is make a list of redeeming qualities already in one's possession just to remind ourselves of our greatness. And if you can't think of any of them, go ask a friend or a lover, and I bet they'll be able to help you with that. Bah humbug to NYRs.