Hello out there-
I said "you may not hear from me for a while" and it has been over a month!
The show in Portland went well and we came home to the joy of spring gardening and the sorrow of having to deal with a rental property we own and need to sell. It's been inhabited by too many animals whose owners were unconscious to the damage being done. As we have been cleaning and mowing and trying to decide how to best present this property, I have been thinking a lot about unconsciousness -- ours, the renter's, our property manager's, the country's, the world's. There is plenty of time to ruminate when you are swabbing the decks, but Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth has been helping me make some sense of it.
It's not a new theme for me. Last fall I made this painting of people on the beach enjoying a little campfire, oblivious of the raging wildfire that is about to descend on them. I think this image has power and intend to do a larger painting from it, where it will be easier to see the people on the beach and I can really get into swabbing all the color around.
If you, or anyone you know, might be interested in a lovely 3 acre piece of land in the country but close to stores, school, etc. , with an optional fixer-upper double-wide mobile, click here.
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On Saturday, at my place of employment, I was thinking about this too, however, I was thinking, "How could they not "see"this??? as I washed a sink full of dishes, got to the metal drain basket and freaked out at the volume of filth covering the surfaces. I usually fill a 2 gallon plastic watering can at that sink.
Unconscious? Seems more complex. I asked the daughter of the owners, to come see the basket. Her comment, I guess I'm used to it.
College graduate,bookkeeper, wife, Mom, daughter. I have been to her home, it is not dirty!
Usually the family matriarch, Reyko, cleans up the kithcen after her family. She and her husband were on a well deserved vacation for 10days.
Dave, the mechanic, son, husband, manager, leaves his dirty tableware and utensils on the table for others to clean up.
Is it the bhuddist way? or just family roles that have been ingrained for decades?
I am the newcomer, hired to buy and mercandise the garden accessories. After a decade of going along with the system, there are interior changes occuring for me.
One new path is a twelve step program, Alanon. Interesting to add a new ingredient to my life recipe!!!
On Saturday, at my place of employment, I was thinking about this too, however, I was thinking, "How could they not "see"this??? as I washed a sink full of dishes, got to the metal drain basket and freaked out at the volume of filth covering the surfaces. I usually fill a 2 gallon plastic watering can at that sink.
Unconscious? Seems more complex. I asked the daughter of the owners, to come see the basket. Her comment, I guess I'm used to it.
College graduate,bookkeeper, wife, Mom, daughter. I have been to her home, it is not dirty!
Usually the family matriarch, Reyko, cleans up the kithcen after her family. She and her husband were on a well deserved vacation for 10days.
Dave, the mechanic, son, husband, manager, leaves his dirty tableware and utensils on the table for others to clean up.
Is it the bhuddist way? or just family roles that have been ingrained for decades?
I am the newcomer, hired to buy and mercandise the garden accessories. After a decade of going along with the system, there are interior changes occuring for me.
One new path is a twelve step program, Alanon. Interesting to add a new ingredient to my life recipe!!!
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