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THE SPRING I DIDN'T SEE

5/12/2015

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Feel free to skip the whining prose below and scroll down to the pictures!  Fair warning...

It's official; I've now been sick since March 31st.  "Well isn't that special," as the old character on Saturday Night Live used to say.  I did have ten wonderful, short, health-filled days in late April in between illnesses.  During that time I managed to make it to New York City for Readers Studio 2015, the fabulous multi-day annual tarot conference.  I was home for a day or so, then off to upstate New York for a few days to visit a good friend.  It was when I was on the way home from her house that the damn head cold boomeranged back on me and I've been completely out of it ever since.

Today, for the first time, I can feel it just starting to fade.  I cannot wait to be healthy again.

Spring has been coming on with a vengeance, largely unseen by me as I haven't had the energy to go out.  It is truly glorious out there.  When I am recovered enough to get around again, I hope to hoof it down to the Greenway and see this fabulous new art installation from Janet Echelman (with thanks to Tom for sending me this photo, which he took last night):
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Oh my gosh, isn't that beautiful?  And during the day, from what I hear, just as beautiful but very different.

I gotta go!

Speaking of "Gotta Go," I may have been too sick for any real work for weeks, but I managed to get in a few tangles.  One of them has that for a name (believe it or not, I think its creator says she discovered this one while looking at the floor in a ladies' room she was visiting).  This was my first try at it:
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You can see an extra line I started to put in there, since I'm a newbie at it.  Love this tangle.  Decided to try it again with a variation:
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And speaking of floors, when I got to the tarot conference and saw the Marriott Hotel Lobby floor, I had to laugh as it's a direct link to the tangle "Florz."  I have seen a zillion floors with this design and bet you have also.
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Here are a few other experiments with Zentangle® I've done while being so sick.  There are a pitiful few of them, as most days I didn't have the energy.
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All of them are my first attempts.  I can only get better!

This also arrived from Amy Oxford's Oxford Rug School:
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What the heck is that, you ask?  Maybe this will make it more clear:
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Half my order of natural-colored rug yarn, waiting for me to dye it for my next rug.  Once the weather gets hot...as it was today...I won't be doing any dyeing until things cool down.  But that's ok, as I have another rug on the frame now and it will take a while, and in the meantime I can get busy with color planning so I'll know what colors to dye.

For someone who has been so unable to work for a while, I can sense a burst of artistic energy coming on, once I'm recovered!  (Whine, whine)

"The very fact that you are a complainer shows that you deserve your lot." (James Allen)

"You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache." (Bernard Baruch)
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