Thoughts on Art, a Sketchbook for my BFF

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My friend, you have said you would like to study drawing and art when you retire.

How wonderful for you!

Art is a a living, loving, evolving  auto biography. What you draw reflects your life, your loves, your irritations and your very unique perspective of life.

Art releases your deepest feelings, expresses and helps resolve your problems, reveals your dreams.

It creates a statement, saying I am here- I was here- I imagine this and I see this sight just this way.

Just as a writer overflows with words, a composer fills with song, and a dancer moves to express, an artist creates and shows and meanders through her medium to the rhythm of her soul.

I encourage you to daydream and doodle with a pencil in your hand. Practice and seek and learn to show what you alone want to show. Draw and draw and sketch as much as you can, and when you hit a wall in your need to express, do research from teachers and from all the beautiful creations you can find to see.

Develop an aspiration and practice toward it.

Challenge yourself to try new things.

Add some colors, a marker pen, a watercolor brush to your expressions.

Surely you will find some things you enjoy in art that you will feel good about, and are good at.

And know that you have a lifetime of free lessons and information from me, your twin sister from different mothers, waiting for you to utilize when you wish.

Take your sketchbook camping, take it to work. Leave it by the phone call center, take it to a place where you have to wait.And draw, draw, draw-

Once you have taken off, the more you will seek this fine form of self expression; may it lead you to a journey of enhanced self discovery, and personal celebration of your beautiful self!

About Moving On

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Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.
Jeanne Moreau

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My only sibling remaining in my area is moving away, far across the country. Grown women, we, weathering marriage and childbirth, celebrations and mourning,  I go back to the sweet days of friendship and closeness as little girl sisters.

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My other sibling moved away some years ago, and the surge of nostalgia was more unformed. This time it strikes with an aching poignancy, leaving me to process why through writing and art.

An era is over. My sisters have moved on, leaving me the wisps of memory shared to build their own new ones. To grow, evolve, become better at the art of being oneself, the past must be left behind, one must move on and upward.

Tapestry of Memories

My own life is rich with family, friends, children and now grandchildren. I travel with my husband, plan exciting vacations camping with family and friends, have my hobbies, create my paintings-

…yet my memories of sweet childhood adventures and boredom with my sisters still pull at my soul. Innocence, fantasy, a time when the world was far more new…

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So this is my writing to process my nostalgia. To understand why it is so difficult for me to “let go”. To remember that each of us have our own lives, and must be free to live them for ourselves, not for others who wish for stasis.

My sisters have moved on, away. Nothing can ever be the same.

On to my own new adventures.

Breathe in your beautiful memories of the past, savor the sweetness, and then go forward into your own new days-