Happy Holidays!
I want to let you how important it is for me to send these e-mails on a
regular basis. This activity of "reporting" provides me with the checks and
balances that are absent since I took on the life of the artist. It helps me
stay on course, eager to do more so at least I have something to say every
month, and, most of all, connects me to a world of people. Artists must do
many things alone to be successful, I believe, because of the strange
demands of the creative process. Without you, I would not only be in
solitude, which is a necessary and wonderful thing, but I would also be
alone.
Thank you and have a suberbly absolutely incredibly wonderful season.

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Thoughts and Ramblings

This time I offer you the concept of absolute blissful rest. We are about to
embark on a delightful journey to peaceful Kansas for a yearly vacation.
Kansas, and I mean this with love in my heart, is rated the 50th state in
tourist satisfaction--I say, tourists don't know what they are missing and
probably don't know where to look.
First, you have a wonderful house with a lot of light, a reading room, and
what has come to be known as "the sleepy chair," where naps are mandatory.
Surely everyone must have a chair like that one on their vacation! You know,
the kind that reclines and lets the sunlight filter in and hit your face as
you sit there and pretend to read.
Second, you have to have cold weather. Last year the sun shone, the air was
cool but not cold and going outside was perfectly possible. What a shame.
No, it has to be absolutely freezing cold out there, to invite staying in
and curling up with a good book, a large book, one that must not be finished
either this vacation or next. Zero is good, below is better, just as long as
we can avoid slipping on the icy driveway.
Third, you engage in what we call "expeditions." These are the side trips
that take us to the corners of Kansas that tourists miss. We must see the
bison, again, and we must climb the frozen tower in the middle of the bison
and elk preserve and marvel at the expanse, quickly, because the cold soon
bites our faces and forces us back to the van. We must walk on a frozen
lake, just to see if it holds, and calculate the depth of the ice. Then we
go back to family and to hot meals and to the wood stove.
What else can we ask for?
May you all have a place like that, a place to rest and recharge and thank
your lucky stars.

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Quote(s) of the Day

"I never found the companion that was so companionable as
solitude."
--Henry David Thoreau

"I go at what I am about as if there was nothing else in the
world for the time being."
--Charles Lingsley

Thanks for listening and health to all,
Maria
 

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