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musings over tea and candlelight
Jan. 10th, 2026 07:45 pmI think the craziest thing about living in this current culture full of crazy things, is how quickly things seem to stop mattering.
something I am grateful for today
Jan. 9th, 2026 08:10 pmGetting the dishes done, even though I so felt like bailing on them: Tomorrow Morning Me will be very grateful.
musings over tea and candlelight
Dec. 31st, 2025 07:06 pm2025 was objectively the worst year of my life. The world at large went to hell in a handbasket, in ways I never thought the world was going to do again. My day-to-day health took a pronounced downturn, leading to a major creative lull. And my loved ones faced many new significant hardships. It was like we were all struggling and floundering without letup.
And yet, subjectively I have had many previous years which I spent feeling low and miserable, and that honestly didn't happen this year. Down moments, sure, but overall my mood has been peaceful and even. This year taught me a lot about myself and how to navigate being me. So I guess that's good.
I sure hope the objective sutff does better in 2026, though, for all our sakes.
And yet, subjectively I have had many previous years which I spent feeling low and miserable, and that honestly didn't happen this year. Down moments, sure, but overall my mood has been peaceful and even. This year taught me a lot about myself and how to navigate being me. So I guess that's good.
I sure hope the objective sutff does better in 2026, though, for all our sakes.
My 14th gouache is a Bohemian waxwing — I was quite taken by the incredibly vivid reds and yellows in the wings and tail, they were fun. 8 x 10, watercolour paper mounted on cardboard: a surface I found in Dollar Tree and have since stocked up on. I find it a very handy work surface for gouache.
My 63rd acrylic is a seasonal Golden Lab. Got organic greens by mixing yellow and black: a trick I picked up a while back and still get a kick out of. 10 x 10, canvas.
My 63rd acrylic is a seasonal Golden Lab. Got organic greens by mixing yellow and black: a trick I picked up a while back and still get a kick out of. 10 x 10, canvas.
geeky treasure
Dec. 9th, 2025 06:09 pmComic-strip historian-geeks will appreciate this treasure I stumbled across today, in a thrift store, for less than CAN$2: a book collection [which appears to be a first printing, 1945] of the comic strip Male Call by Milton Caniff . Non-historian-geeks will need to be informed that Caniff is like the Shakespeare and Rembrandt of comics — one of the greatest and most important cartoonists in the history of the medium.
And the sweetest bonus of all: autographed.
something I am grateful for today
Nov. 22nd, 2025 08:12 pm I can see Christmas lights just by looking out my front door and across the street.
something I am grateful for today
Nov. 18th, 2025 06:12 pmmaking a breakthrough [okay, maybe more like a baby step forward] in designing a character for my graphic-novel WIP
curmudgeonly grumble
Nov. 17th, 2025 08:08 pm“Being a man” is such a B.S. concept — there are as many different definitions of it as there are different people....
My 62nd acrylic is a further exploration of a limited palette I discovered while working on a previous abstract. I got quite excited working with those colours (and their respective values). I really like how they look and work together, so I have stocked up on those paints and hope to do a lot of different things with them in future.
something I am grateful for today
Oct. 12th, 2025 09:16 pmPillsbury Crescent Rolls! They aren't a major part of Thanksgiving dinner but they are a key part.
