Like many people, I take stock of my life as the years changes. These are the touchstones of my life, and if I prioritize them I feel in balance. Health (exercise, healthy food, sleep) has moved up over the decades as I’ve learned not to take health for granted. How are your priorities similar and different?
Wishing you a happy, healthy life in 2019!
For Christmas I gave Bruce a pole system which allows us to hang four more bird feeders, making a total of seven! Such wonderful winter entertainment. The Massachusetts state bird is one of our favorites.
Wishing you and yours a blessed holiday of giving and sharing!
(This Christmas tree was “painted” on an iPad.)
Today is the shortest day of the year. I once read a children’s story that called the winter solstice “the first day of summer,” because from now on the days will get longer. Happy solstice!
Our local library is keeping up with the times by offering online audio books, movies and e-books (through Hoopla and Overdrive), jigsaw puzzles and musical instruments to borrow, and more. It’s fun to sit in the airy reading room, and read or sketch.
I just finished Luna, a pet portrait I was commissioned to paint as a Christmas present. I couldn’t stop smiling as I painted because she is so adorable. (pet portrait info here.)
Apologies to anyone who has tried to email me by clicking “reply” to my posts in the last month. I just found out there was a glitch in my website email (which usually forwards automatically to lynnholbein@gmail.com) starting on Nov. 19th, and many of the emails since bounced. It’s fixed now, but if there was anything important, please write again, and so sorry.
One of the biggest blessings of Bruce’s and my lives are teaching in prison. He teaches a weekly book group, and I teach a weekly art class, both in men’s prisons; we have led our classes for 14 and 17 years respectively. What began as a short-term good deed became something we really enjoy and look forward to. It’s amazing how people are the same, outside and inside the walls, all of us a combination of good and bad. Here is a drawing of my art class which one of my co-teachers, Jacki Rohan, drew.
This little pot of yellow flowers wanted to be painted.
A friend of mine loves abstracts. “They’re like magic!” she says. This is for you, Millie.
