Working life is a jolt to the rigorous leisure I partook of only last week. I drove to school slightly out of focus. My nightowlish ways do not agree with rising before the sun. It feels unnatural. Wrong somehow.
I’m not complaining, just adjusting. To noise. Chaos. Chattering. Meetings. Important information was dispensed. This is what I heard: yadda yadda yadda and blah blah blah. As I always do when experiencing re-entry, I calculated how many years I have until retirement.
Yesterday I had a good time in my visual journal. I thought I might do more when I got home today, but instead I sat for a long spell and stared into space. It felt very restful.
MARY ANN MOSS
beautiful.
and i totally the sweet restfulness of staring off into space, it’s one of my favorite things to do, especially outdoors.
Wonderful pages….I see them really blooming into a new direction here
I took the long way home from work today. Needed to veg out as well. No music, just the A/C cranked and a little secret road that few know about in the city. Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much better than I-10 and the crazy weavers.
I had every intention of coming home, working on some clay and some jewelry, but instead I’m surfing the net and watching recorded TV. Need to veg with the canines…………….so I’m very in tune with your need to just sit.
Saw some really awful “teaching” yesterday that has left me stunned and perplexed. I think I will be taking the long way home again tomorrow….
I am in awe,
your journal’s latest entries are so beautiful and full of possible meanings and interpretations (I smile at this point, remembering a noted writer, name lost to me, who once thanked his critics for putting in his novel all the meaning he never knew about!).
The paper of your journals looks special too, handmade perchance?
WHAT? Are you KIDDING? You have a million days before retirement, you whipper-snapper!
These are so great.
anna maria my journal is exactly 10 by 11 inches. a strange size i know. that happened to be the size of the old bookcovers i sewed my signatures into. i like this size very much. i usually have a larger/heavier journal so this is great for a change!!!
Your journal pages are so incredible! I love them! And what is that little mention about peach pie ice cream? Any day with ice cream can’t be all bad!!
I actually have the luxury of spacing out sometimes at work, with no one noticing. Teachers, especially elementary, can’t really do that can they?
I always love the look of your journal pages.
I’m also curious about what size they are. Mine is at the end and I need to make or buy a new one, and all I know is that I want one that’s not too big and not too small. Yours look just right.
Love these pages… your color and design senses are just PERFECT!!
At what more useful thing could a human being do than be restful?….wait….don’t answer that. I’ll just say that I think being restful is VERY useful indeed. 🙂
These pages look so cool!! You are pure inspiration!!
Yes, Mary Ann I can totally relate to “yadda yadda yadda and blah blah blah” I work for an airline… As soon as folks say “I missed my flight… it just goes to yadda…” in my head… or after I have given the explaination to a delay and and folks inevitably say “I missed your announcement what did you say about the delay?” There is many a day I just come home and veg out…
Reality bites for sure. At least it fuels great artwork though.
oh i love these pages, mary ann!
the staring into space was good. very wise…
There is NOTHING like the tired one feels when going back to school after a break. NOTHING. It makes us question our own sanity. And who says 8:30PM is too early to go to bed for an adult? I conk out sooner than most of my students…
the grownups? not so much; but the monkeys, okey dokey. I get it
did i see peach pie ice cream….? someone who gets to eat peach pie ice cream should be incredibly focused the next day. that’s super food isn’t it? smooches