Journal to a Muse

This is as close as you'll come to seeing Thelma.
She's on your right. My left.


But the real news? I now have RED hair! (It's always been blonde.)
I was relieved that I could still tell it was "me" in the mirror. (If you've ever ever looked in the mirror and not seen yourself, you can understand being concerned that such a huge change would somehow erase your real self and soul and everything.)
So it's ME! Whew!
It's more than me, too. Somebody more... Somebody brave, and fun, and unpredictable.
Wheeeeeeeeee.
This is how Run Lola! Run! would look if I were in it. (Except I couldn't do all that running. No way!)


I received Danny Gregory's book today: Everyday Matters. It is SO poignant and inspiring. I sat down and read the whole thing through. I want to try to draw my cat on the back of the sofa, and our kitchen pot rack, and the pepper grinder, and the clutter on my end of the bathroom sink, and a self-portrait...
And yet I didn't/haven't sat down with pen/paint/paper today.
Well. That's the breaks. I did a lot of stuff.
Here's how I spent my time.
I met the vicar who helped me prepare the church retreat last month. What a great person. I am looking to knowing her better and better. I think she maybe misses "therapist types" to talk to in the middle of church administration and the "religion business."
Then I bought some flowers because the heat finally fried my pansies.

Purslane and lavender

and a potato vine to contrast with the purple wandering jew.
This is the needy garden... There's wandering jew in the back, lavender in the middle, phlox of some sort at the very front and crab grass, oxalis, weedy weeds in the middle.

I got new garden gloves, root stimulator and am ready to hoe and cultivate the weeds under, add humus and mulch and have beauty for my tired eyes by August.

Next, I bought the hair dye, and some eyebrow pencil to draw in my eyebrows if my bangs don't cover where they should be after my hair falls out... and coppery lipstick to "go" with my hair...
Then I did three loads of wash and put away, um, 60% of the clutter in the bedroom.
And cooked a pork tenderloin and cooked gnocchi with fontina (yummy) and a mixed green salad with crasins, bleu cheese, almonds, carrot shreds and apples. Yummy x 2.
Then dear husband came home with a headache... but he felt better after dinner.

I hope to get up pretty early and plant the purslane, lavender and potato.

Yesterday I took photos of the Llamas that seem to have replaced the sheep at a tiny farm in the middle of our metroplex. Don't they have funny profiles?

I made a note of the grounds keepers address. I hope he/she will introduce me to the llamas, tell me where the sheep went and let me draw some of them (the animals, not the people!) up close. Unless they spit too much.


Even with multiple side effects waiting for me on Friday, I have lots to do and am upbeat.
And for that, I am grateful.