Carry on, bake on, decorate on
Making Soup
Throughout these last months with all the death and destruction around us, I didn't know what to say that wouldn't sound shallow. I am 75 , have some friends left, and have an income that covers my modest needs. I worked for it, survived nearly 30 years in a demanding work place and am fortunate that the university hasn't yanked the pensions away from the lower level peons. But that also doesn't speak to the suffering and the grieving that I see around me. The things that anger me seem so petty when I look at the pile up of disasters facing all of us in this winter of 2020. Sunrise, Sunset.
Then, I found this via the Internet - not mine. I wish I wrote this well (Rachel is facing surgery and I urge everybody to go to her page, read her marvelous columns and contribute what they can)
No matter what mysteries we face today, there are clues all around us indicating hope is near... goodness is abundant... and we are being held in loving, faithful hands.
"My friends, whether we...
The last Posts from Chez Namaste Nancy
- Happy St. David's Day. Patron Saint of Wales. “Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus”
- Daumier. Painter, lithographer, social critic
- Happy Birthday Renoir
- Shavua Tov & Chag Purim sameach! Have a good week and happy Purim!
- Horace Pippin. America's own Henri Rousseau
- Pamela Colman-Smith. Artist, activist, Illustrator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck
- The almost curry experiment
- Mary of Burgundy, 5 January 1477 - 27 March 1482
- The Year of the Ox
- Paula Modersohn-Becker. Pioneering Woman Artist, February, 8, 1876
- Super Owl Sunday
- Norman Rockwell. He portrayed our idealism and our flaws
- Happy Birthday Gertrude
- Calendar page for February - the month for staying warm
- Patrick Heron, January 30, 1920 - March 20, 1999
- Alice Neel. Born in January 1900
- Robert Motherwell. Born January 24, 1915
- Édouard Manet.January 23, 1832
- Louise Moillon. 17th century trailblazing woman artist & one of the best known at the time
- Paul Cézanne, Father of modern art. Born January 19, 1839
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