(To write this morning, I stand beside a well of deep shadows, where I will dip in and let things spill out as they will.)

It is like a beacon, that yellow light.

I am pulled towards it. Perhaps it is providing guidance.

I know it is alone in its warmth in a place of deep blues.

There, in that attic room, is it the place the girl retreats to? Is it her light I am seeing? Or another? Like her I am outside. Somebody else has the light on in the night. Writing? Reading? Are there sounds of a keyboard – an old fashioned clicking typewriter – or the softer sounds of paper and pen?

Perhaps there is a child who could not sleep. And the switching on of the light is accompanied by a hand to the brow, a rub of the back, gentle song.

Outside the house the sounds are soft. Branches rub against one another. There is a light mist of almost rain.

And I am in this place and not in this place. Under the trees and also creating them in memory. I am looking through a detached window and on the other side of it.

It was long ago.

It was never. It is a dream. It is not a scrapbook.

I want to enter this space to discover its secrets.

This is just the beginning. To be there. The secret-discovery will require scuffed shoes or a stick to dig and stir the leaves – all that there is within the blue shadows.

. . . . .

I am discovering, through experience and the reality of being older than I was, that creating art, both writing and physical objects that you can touch and feel, is a serious business. And a wonderful process: a process filled with wonder, in which discoveries occur right alongside the things that were planned. For those who are art-makers, I hope for you a path that opens up your heart to possibilities. Don’t be afraid to reach down into the well. For those who are art-lovers, I hope that your relationships (no, friendships) with works created by artists connect you to even a part of what we hoped and experienced while creating, and that your life is richer for it.

Happy creating.

Happy art-loving.

(The work that is the basis for this week’s writing, “Living in the House of Blue Shadows,” is just completed. If you would like to learn more about it, please visit my website HERE.)

Thank you for reading.
I always enjoy questions and comments.
--Bobbi

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