Last week, when I was recovering from the shock and trauma of the accident I thought I would do some art therapy.

This is what I did in my sketch book. I thought alot about the physics of how things (planets, billiard balls, people, cars in traffic, grains of sand…) come together and move apart - the energy between the objects, etc… (I know sounds a bit like I had too much percaset that day) but it is an intriguing thing to think about while drawing. I’m thinking about doing this for a commission client who wants a very large piece for their entry way. Maybe do it in nine smaller squares…

On my recent trip back home to NJ I ran into a friend of my sister’s who I had designed a tattoo of the number nine for a few years ago.  Here it is in all it’s glory! Just another thing to add to my resume.

This is my new kitten, “Owen”. He’s helping me rest and get back in to the studio slowly since the accident last week.

He’s my new studio mascot.

This morning the sun was shining and it was a beautiful day.

More beautiful because myself and four neighborhood friends were involved in a terrible auto accident last night. We all came home from the hospital last night - a bit bruised, battered and dazed but alive. I was driving us all to a restaurant to celebrate two friend’s fortieth birthdays. I was going through a green light and someone ran the red light and blind sided my Honda Pilot and caused it to roll and land on it’s roof. I don’t remember much of that but I do remember thinking of my kids and calmly wondering if this was it for me. It was a rough night and we are all still in shock.

I’m taking the train tomorrow to see some old friends in New Jersey who I have been planning a reunion with for several months and trying to coordinate for several years. I will not be undone!

Hug your kids, eat some ice cream with no guilt and gaze at something beautiful today.

My latest completed commission…love this green with the pinks - reminds me of my preppie days back in highschool. Hard to believe I used to beg my mother to buy me the pink wide-whale chorduroy pants with the green and pink fair isle sweater and the green belt with the whales on it ….scary. Scarier? My 25th highschool reunion coming in the fall! Wonder if those pants would still fit?

Here’s what happening in my studio today.

…reading Pema Chodron again. Reading ‘The Places that Scare You’ - last chapter on the state of being in “bodhichitta” or the in-between stages of things. This journal page is inspired by my understanding of this uncomfortable and yet necessary place. Personally, I prefer the notion of Pooh and Piglet waiting for their sticks to float out from under the bridge during a game of Pooh sticks during those uncertain, in-between times - at least they have a friend to wait with. But I try to remind myself that we really don’t know - it might really hurt a flower too as it pushes out of the earth to uncurl and bloom.

In the words of the great Lola and Charlie (said with an English accent), ” I’m really very nearly finished” with ‘Happy all the Day’

24″ square, acrylic amd mixed media on canvas 

I’m the one on the left, looking like she’d much rather be just about anywhere else….Donna looks like she’s having more fun than should be legal without the aid of a cocktail!

I just wish I had some shots of the fire brigade in their full cross-dressed attire! Always an anual highlight!

Is this really my life?

Marched in the very famous Rutland 4th of July Parade today - representing the Rutland Cultural Council proudly.

Happy hot dogs and apple pie to you and yours!