Originally Blogging the Artist's Way. Thoughts, musings, experience of the 12-week course, January to March 2006. And after that?.... Life, creativity, writing. Where does it all meet? Here, perhaps.
Six Ways to Kneel and Kiss the Ground
by melmag@eircom.net (GreenishLady)6 Sep 2009 at 5:03 am
September, and the promise of routine. Days in my own home. A sunday morning with my laptop (which is functioning, just at the moment, reasonably well!), and a prompt from Inner Artist, a lovely blogger, new to me, to dig out one of my own poems. Jo uses a line from Rumi as a quote on her blog - a line that caught my heart and prompted a poem quite a few years ago. The Rumi line, known to many of ... read more
still here... or here again
by melmag@eircom.net (GreenishLady)18 Jul 2009 at 6:14 am
Since that last post, I've actually started two posts, but not gotten to the stage of hitting the "publish post" button, thinking I'd get to add pictures, maps, etc.
Main thing is - to anyone who was worried or wondering about me - I'm fine! I'm doing that summer-time thing of taking off on unplanned trips, have been having wonderful times, in fact, along with spending time with my family over the ... read more
Re-connecting
by melmag@eircom.net (GreenishLady)26 Jun 2009 at 4:50 am
Look what happens! I wrote about "Disconnected" for Sunday Scribblings and where do I go for the next month-and-a-bit-more? Into somewhere not connected to my blog for sure. I've still read blogs from time to time, and even managed to leave the occasional comment, but am still not properly back on-line. Now that my holidays from work have started, time to get neglected tasks (like having my comput ... read more
Sunday Scribblings.... Disconnected
by melmag@eircom.net (GreenishLady)17 May 2009 at 5:09 am
This week, the prompt at Sunday Scribblings is "Disconnected". Does it seem apt for me? Oh, yes! Does it strike me as odd that this week, of all weeks, such a prompt appears? Not at all. I often find the prompt that's offered at Sunday Scribblings is very strangely fitted to something going on in my life, just right at that time. Totally Connected, in fact!
So... the immediate link I made when I sa ... read more
TGIF - Trusting, Grateful, Inspired Friday
by melmag@eircom.net (GreenishLady)15 May 2009 at 4:20 am
Brene Brown, over at the "I Thought It Was Just Me" readalong, has a lovely feature on Fridays, in which she asks What, today are you Trusting? Grateful for? Inspired by? and she kindly offers a giveaway to anyone who replies, which is lovely.
Well, in the week where my computer forgot me (and hasn't completely regained its memory yet), my ten-year old car finally cracked up and had to be replaced, ... read more
computer crisis
by melmag@eircom.net (GreenishLady)10 May 2009 at 5:43 am
Woke up this morning to a computer that doesn't remember me. I have no history here, it seems, no contacts, no documents, no pictures, no data. I've never registered for anything, .... have you ever been there?
I think the universe is repaying me for a claim I made yesterday of being "detached", not tied to things so much any more. I am being tested bigtime!
My biggest worry is email addresses... ho ... read more
Confession: Sunday Scribbling
by melmag@eircom.net (GreenishLady)2 May 2009 at 3:00 pm
This week's prompt at Sunday Scribblings is "Confession". To anyone brought up Catholic, it's likely that the first image to arise will be the memory of the confession-box, the first confession, the ritual cleansing of the soul before the first communion. Does she look like her soul needed to be cleansed? I didn't mind going to confession. The biggest problem was figuring out what on earth to of ... read more
Gifts
by melmag@eircom.net (GreenishLady)20 Apr 2009 at 7:15 am
I missed this week's Sunday Scribbling prompt of "Language" because I was away for the weekend - hearing the same language I speak, but in a different accent. My sisters and I were in Manchester.
Do you know of L.S. Lowry? We went to visit the centre which houses an exhibit of his paintings, saw a film about his life and work, and really were so delighted to have had a chance to encounter his art u ... read more
Wishcasting
by melmag@eircom.net (GreenishLady)15 Apr 2009 at 7:27 pm
Jamie, at Starshyne Productions, has a Wednesday event called Wednesday Wishcasting, for which she poses a question - what is your wish? - and invites us to post about it, and others to support that wish. This week, she asks "What do you wish to clear from your life?" and the question fits for me right now especially, as there are new curtains and bedlinen waiting for my bedroom, but the whole e ... read more
Another Meme
by melmag@eircom.net (GreenishLady)9 Apr 2009 at 3:58 am
It's been a while since I've done any memes, and this is one I hadn't encountered before. Becca's invited anyone who wants to to respond, so I'll take up that offer. If you'd like to answer these questions, please do, and let me know you've done the meme, won't you?
Rules~
1. Respond and rework. Answer the questions on your blog, replace one question you dislike with a question of your own invention ... read more
Sunday Scribblings - Celebrate
by melmag@eircom.net (GreenishLady)5 Apr 2009 at 7:06 am
I celebrate my son's homecoming after seven months away. I celebrate a chance to sit at a table and eat with him.
I celebrate my sisters, and our appreciation of one another. I celebrate that each of them reaches out to me and will be there for me whenever I need them.
I celebrate Spring's glistening greens, banks of primrose, blackthorn in a mantilla of cream blossom. I celebrate lambs on spindly l ... read more
This weekend...
by melmag@eircom.net (GreenishLady)3 Apr 2009 at 3:20 pm
Good things:
Yesterday, I'd just been looking at a clip on YouTube of Cirque de Soleil in Las Vegas, wondering if I'd ever get a chance to see them. Literally minutes later - a call from my sister to say she'd won 3 tickets to see their show in Dublin tomorrow! (I didn't even know it was happening)
So, this is the show we get to see. With our other sister.
And my son comes home.
Two really good thi ... read more
Good Things
by melmag@eircom.net (GreenishLady)27 Mar 2009 at 7:48 am
This is the first Friday in a long time when I've been neither working nor travelling. Yes, I've made a couple of phone-calls, and sent a work-related email, but I'm still in my pyjamas! I love when someone shares the delights in their life on their blog, and mine has been delight-deficient in some ways recently, I fear. I don't tend to come here to tell you these days what the daily happenings ar ... read more
Sunday Scribbling: I Come From....
by melmag@eircom.net (GreenishLady)21 Mar 2009 at 4:50 am
Today's prompt at Sunday Scribblings is "I come from..." I might have offered one of my old poems from my poetry-collection here, because it exactly fits the bill. It's called "Origins" and begins with a first line of "I come from a hawk-cry, flat, plain place..." But Sunday Scribblings is a prompt for new writing, so I'll play along and see what follows....
I come from Sunday chocolate-bars,
summe ... read more
Sunday Scribblings. Letters to myself
by melmag@eircom.net (GreenishLady)14 Mar 2009 at 5:23 am
This week at Sunday Scribblings, the prompt is "Dear Past Me, Dear Future Me". I've written letters from my past self and my future self, but now I look at the prompt, this is different. My 8-year-old self asked me (among other things) if I'd please start wearing lipstick and earrings, now that I'm old enough to be allowed. My 80-year-old self thanked me for quitting cigarettes, and asked me to l ... read more
Listen Up Because This is IMPORTANT!!!
by melmag@eircom.net (GreenishLady)6 Mar 2009 at 5:20 am
Well, that's the prompt at Sunday Scribblings this week, and as I didn't make a post last week ("Lost" ... appropriately), or the week before ("Trust"), or... ooops, even the week before that ("Sports"), I need to get back in the game, and trust that there is something I need to say that is important, and in fact, there are many things, but right now, today, what I want to say is going to be very ... read more
A little montage of photos from Argentina
by melmag@eircom.net (GreenishLady)15 Feb 2009 at 7:48 pm
Some people asked for photos from my trip to Buenos Aires. Here's a few, a little taste of what was a wonderful ten days. I tried to find some tango music to accompany them, but failed!
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And the Winners are.....
by melmag@eircom.net (GreenishLady)11 Feb 2009 at 8:53 pm
I used the recommended Random Integer Generator to select the winners of my One World, One Heart giveaway, and this is the result:
Here are the random numbers:
15 Mary Isabella and Kiley too, who said she liked the blanket, so that's her prize, as hers was the first number generated
40 Shelley
112 Grouchy Whitecat
36 Stampgram
113 Youvegotmaille
109 Crystal
each of whom will receive one of the papier-mac ... read more
Vincent and me.... Van Gogh's Ear
by melmag@eircom.net (GreenishLady)7 Feb 2009 at 7:11 am
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I had no idea that Ell, at The Pomegranate Tiger had awarded me a Van Gogh's Ear until she commented on this week's Sunday Scribblings post, in which I'd featured one of Vincent Van Gogh's most-loved paintings, and spoke a little of what a thrill it was for me to visit an exhibit of his work at MOMA in New York just as the year began.
The Van Gogh's Ear award is for "making a differ ... read more
Sunday Scribblings ..... Art
by melmag@eircom.net (GreenishLady)6 Feb 2009 at 5:59 am
This week's prompt from Sunday Scribblings is a little word, and a tall order... gather together and articulate something in writing about art. That's Art. Or is is art? The capital letter makes a difference. Julia Cameron made the point very well in The Artist's Way. When we think of Art with a capital A, it's important, serious, something that Professional or Trained or Talented Artists do. Peop ... read more
Sunday Scribblings: Phantoms and Shadows
by melmag@eircom.net (GreenishLady)24 Jan 2009 at 7:42 am
The prompt at Sunday Scribblings This week: things and people, times, places, events and how your memory has treated them. Are there people you try to remember more clearly, phantoms you'd like to reach back into the past and take a firm hold of? What do you remember of your early school years? College years? Your grandparents? First pets, first houses, first friends? Do you have a good or poor me ... read more
One World One Heart
by melmag@eircom.net (GreenishLady)23 Jan 2009 at 2:14 pm
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Last year, I got such joy from participating in One World, One Heart. This year, the event just crept up on me. I didn't realise Lisa was gearing up and getting it all in place until just a couple of days ago. And what an undertaking it is! Lisa Oceandreamer started two years ago, creating a place where bloggers could meet and mingle, offering one another little ... read more
Sunday Scribblings.... Pilgrimage
by melmag@eircom.net (GreenishLady)18 Jan 2009 at 6:56 am
There was only one place outside of Buenos Aires that I really wanted to get to during my visit to my son at Christmas-time, and that was the town of Quilmes. And specifically, I wanted to visit the cemetary there, to pay my respects at the resting-place of May Maxwell. An American Baha'i, who lived most of her life in Canada, and was known as the "Mother of the Canadian Baha'i community", she pas ... read more
Organics... Sunday Scribbling... and another year gone by
by melmag@eircom.net (GreenishLady)11 Jan 2009 at 9:08 am
Sunday Scribbling's prompt today is "Organic" What does the word mean to you? I've resisted the temptation to go in search of the official meaning before I respond. I've always taken it to have something to do with having respect for the integrity of an organism... allowing natural growth, for instance, without interfering with the use of chemicals and forcing rapid growth. Mostly, it relates to p ... read more
Feast or Famine! My fridge
by melmag@eircom.net (GreenishLady)14 Dec 2008 at 1:50 pm
Caroline asked me a question arising from my Sunday Scribblings post, which featured angels gathered from about my house. She's visited, and knew there was something else that people give me. That's butterflies. Butterfly pictures, butterfly mugs. Butterfly bookmarks. Glass butterflies to hang in the window... lots of butterflies.
There's even one on my fridge. I popped over to her blog, Caro's Lin ... read more