'hedgerow flowers' by elaine pamphilon
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I started to make a few lists this morning, hoping that it will help me to remember and to coordinate some things that have been squeaking for attention, along with some ideas that have been ducking and diving around my head like barn swallows catching evening bugs.
It really helps me to write things down, instead of trying to organize it in my head. This particular list-making is not like jotting-down a grocery list. This is more of a capturing; some things need a decision, some creative thought, some a breaking-down into steps. It also includes the little things that are so small, that they tend to fall through the cracks.
This introducing of new things, and perhaps this structure, into my old habits needs...well, an introduction, and the time for it all to become more familiar. It's a capturing, but i think it's also becoming a 'writing and thinking' prayer.
It really helps me to write things down, instead of trying to organize it in my head. This particular list-making is not like jotting-down a grocery list. This is more of a capturing; some things need a decision, some creative thought, some a breaking-down into steps. It also includes the little things that are so small, that they tend to fall through the cracks.
This introducing of new things, and perhaps this structure, into my old habits needs...well, an introduction, and the time for it all to become more familiar. It's a capturing, but i think it's also becoming a 'writing and thinking' prayer.
btw~ i like the word 'hedgerow' quite a bit.
like the sound of hedgerow
ReplyDeleteand think perhaps I need some lists here as well
i am writing things on pages, moving the pages around on table, thinking, wondering. It is becoming a prayer.
DeleteThe lighting in this piece is wonderful. All the best with your scribbles.
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DeleteThank you, for the good thoughts with my scribbling, O.
Yes, that patch of light on the table and the shading of the golden background, and the light flowers...contrasting with the darkness behind the flowers, the cup and the gold against the blue in the table.
Always look forward to your creative processes.
ReplyDeletei try to have creative creative processes...
DeleteI wonder if beauty--like that painting--helps us capture.
ReplyDeletelike words, one can never be sure what beauty will do.
DeleteI carry around a little notebook, it serves as the place I keep the names of people in a photograph, my milage, thoughts and lists. I sometimes refer to it as my most valuable piece of equipment, without it, some photos would be meaningless, but more importantly, it holds my ideas and thoughts, songs I heard on the radio and places I would like to revisit.
ReplyDeletethis notebook that you speak of really earns the name of notebook. full of some notes that you need to refer to, and some that you may continue to refer to. and it also serves as a diary of sorts.
Deleteit sounds wonderful.
thank you so much for sharing this. i found it very interesting.
My being was shaped walking hedgerows and being scared by pheasants and delighted by woodpeckers.
ReplyDeleteI like this.
DeleteAlso, it reads very much like a poem, to me.