comparing my insides to someone else outsides

The danger of blogs and the internet is like a really big version of comparing our insides to someone else outsides. A mistake most of us make and it is lesson I try to remember, when that person looks like they have a great life, they have it all together etc etc etc doesn't mean that is how they feel about. The pain of wanting to be somebody else...... I do this far less often these days(thank goodness), and sometimes when I look at blogs, and artists online I want what they have got. It is a really bad version of the same dis-ease only much bigger because everyone can edit and portray whatever they want on the web as their outside.

And then we have the amazing people who lay it on the line everyone now and then, or maybe all the time. When they are honest about how they feel, or what is happening for them. So even when they have the life I want they make it survivable so I can recall that we are mortal.

routines & mistakes

There is something great about disliking what your making that helps me take risks that take you to a greater place than you had planned or imagined.

Saturday was first time back in the studio for 3 weeks and I was tired, questioning my work that has been in progress for 12 months. So I just started working on some small works on card particularly the ones I didn't like and so was playing and something really lovely happened..... A surprise that led me down a interesting path. It feels a joy to be surprised and find my way back to the routines of making.

I have no idea how I would survive this world without having my art to make.
from the iphone a mistake I like

Thank you

Thank you world for everything right now even the difficult. This photo is taken on route via train Edinburgh to work and play while staying with the boy for a week.

Did I say I love train travel....
And my new iPad
And guardian online
And Leon superfood salads
And personal hotspots via iPhones
And Edinburgh
And the flat we are staying in
And just about everything