Next week will be exciting and busy! I will have Emma and Oliver Thomas for the week, for the first time by themselves! So they are excited! That will be fun! I will be Guliver for the week! LOL The pen me down all night long! I will get to sew with Emma, do Minecraft with them, make cookies, etc. I won’t plan on doing the usual, the week will be about us. They live in Rhode Island. Ollie is 5 1/2 and Emma 71/2 at this point.
Black coffee to the right! The morning starts! I will gear up to meet with Laura William McCaffrey at 12:30. She is from Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance and will help me write the Shibui Manual. https:// laurawilliamsmccaffrey.com/ She writes fiction for youth. Oh, she publishes. I feel I’ll have some great guidance and advice! She has taught the writing of manuals before. My excitement is feeling like mine will happen! It is going to be putting the work in, but I am up for that!
We will celebrate my birthday when they come! That will be fun! I should teach Emma to make a Hot Milk Sponge Cake and boiled frosting.
I live in Southern Maine. I am the owner of Anisette Studios. My website is https://www.anisettestudios.com/ Here you can view and purchase Shibui, sign up for my newsletters, blog, and read articles about Shibui Found Image Art. Patrons get great deals several times a year and special items at times. My site makes it easy to contact me. My primary art form is Shibui Found Image Art. Shibui begins with action art and stems from the imagination. It is like seeing something in the clouds or solving a puzzle. Its creative process has its own rules and requires what I call reverse engineering due to a lack of an understructure and purely out of the imagination. In addition to those who patron me, my target groups are those who use art therapy. I will soon be teaching live. Contact me if you would like to learn live. I use Zoom. I request that although my art, other images, and what I write is now published by me here on WordPress; I do ask you do not to use my artwork, poetry, or the information about Shibui Found Image Art without my permission. I am quite available to make such requests. I wish to share the following: The existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir wrote a book called The Ethics of Ambiguity. In it, she lays out a guiding ethic in response to the philosophy of existentialism. It might be somewhat familiar to you already. She writes, “To will oneself free is also to will others free. This will is not an abstract formula. It points out to each person concrete action to be achieved.”
Best wishes to all! Have good times and keep safe! Pejj
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