Spending the winter alone in the Nothern California mountains, and enjoying it so much to have the space and time to myself. At first, I was a bit nervous but now that I know it’s only the mice that make a ruckus in the hallway and set off the motion sensor, I enjoy the silence, the tiptoes of birds on the roof, the wind howling through the place like lions. We had quite some storms, and resulting power outages. I learned a lot, from how to work a generator, to taking care of myself without electricity if needed. The rains were refreshing. Hope you are enjoying the cooler temperatures. I am keeping the woodstove going, perfect for cooking and warming up my food and me too…
Working on the final stages of a commissioned painting of my spiritual teacher’s “initiation”. The progress has been much faster since we started having Zoom meetings in the mornings while I share my screen and work on it as they watch and comment. I will share more about the process in a later post…
I also started a new painting of our teacher’s teacher, from a small sepia photo that I saw this time when I was in Kashmir, which captured my attention as his eyes were looking very intense and right at me. So I felt like painting it in color and big, replacing a painting of him that never quite captured me.
