Two Friday’s ago I finished parent conferences, we painted pumpkin pie, passed around wild turkey feathers, told stories, read stories, solved complex math problems, discussed lunch behavior, and new seating arrangements, prize box booty. Someone asked could I please add stress balls to the Amazon wishlist. “We need them Ms. Moss.”
Someone else pointed out that the squishy prizes are all for girls. “Ms. Moss can’t you add some boy ones?”
I closed my classroom door and bid farewell to my students. Tomorrow school is back in session for 3 weeks, then winter break begins for 3 weeks. There are always mountains of tasks to do in the classroom, but this time of year is always tinged with the promise of long hours spent at home. Reading, drawing, sitting, napping, walking, cooking, visiting friends, being still.
Let’s begin here. In my beloved Santa Babs. One bright morning at the mission rose garden after my romp at the shore.
I rose each morning at 5:40, brushed my teeth, made coffee, pulled on a warm pair of leggings and a sweatshirt and an undershirt, pink tennis shoes, a scarf, hat.
Into the car, heater on, rumbling off through the dark streets. 5 minutes down Cliff to Hendry’s Beach.
Here we are.
Dawn at the beach.
Gradually it gets lighter. Everything gleaming in the luster of morning.
The sun wakes up and rises. Pink, then yellow. He lives just around that bend.
Here he comes. The waves turn pink to herald his arrival.
After my walk I go get a pumpkin spice roll or almond croissant at Renaud’s. Which.
I eat in the parking lot. While I sip my still-hot coffee.
There’s a man in a truck. He’s eating something too. Maybe a sticky bun or a chocolate croissant.
I turn the pages of my kindle book while I eat and sip and study the other homo sapiens munching things inside their cars. We were the kids at Christmas Eve who couldn’t wait to open our presents on Christmas Day.
There’s no school today.
Back to my patio to write and draw!
My studio on the mesa was extremely excellent. I spent hours outside morning, noon, night. Sitting in all of the chairs. Covering the surfaces with books, markers, pens, my journal, glasses, shells, sea glass. I repurposed the dish drainer as a tray to shuffle things in and out.
Sharron came over for lunch and art.
She let me know that the banana tree was actually a giant white bird of paradise!
How good it is to spend time with a kindred spirit, who eats what you cook in your instant pot and proclaims it delicious.
The evening routine begins around 4:20 in the winter evening. I make my pilgrimage to the shore to watch the sun make his journey home and pour nourishment like golden honey over everything as he leaves.
If you read Klara and the Sun, your time with our star will take on a new significance.
In case you haven’t noticed Venus is blazing bright in the western sky just after sunset. It is huge, like a lighthouse beacon in the rosy sky. On December 3rd it will reach it’s greatest brilliancy. I’ve been enjoying it for months, but now it is getting bigger and brighter each night. Don’t miss it!
Syd & Mary came for lunch on my spacious patio another day. We laughed and drew each other, reminisced about our trip to Guatemala once upon a time time.
At sundown we walked from East Beach to Butterfly. More talking and looking.
We decided these green rocks were like models of the Channel Islands.
Dawn and dusk by the water. I’m good. It is all I need forevermore. Whatever was crashing around inside my head back at school has been soothed. Tamed by the sea!
Great tangles of kelp have been carried to shore in the night. Riding in on the swells and disembarking. Collages have been made of sea grass and hold fasts, thick caramel-colored ropes, amber strips. The fabric of the sea. What do we have today?
Behold!
I went to visit Penny & Wayne. What a good lunch we had. How wonderful to see all of the collage and stitched things Penny made during the pandemic. I loved paging through each of her books and cards. Just wondering now why I didn’t take photos of them. Too busy looking! Wayne is quiet and interesting. He reads science books and makes photographs out of sculptural paper and knows about things. Interesting people reading and working and tinkering away in their art museum of a house. I love visiting.
This is a gorogeous photo of Penny’s trademark braid Wayne took many moons ago.
Penny always spoils me with books. When I finish Cloud Cuckoo Land, I will start one of these!
Penny long ago on a beach in LA.
Probably wondering which book she’ll read next.
I was on my best behavior and didn’t steal any of her paint-by-numbers. That she painted, her actual self, long ago.
Or did I?
Mums the word. Penny, let me know if you notice anything missing.
I brake for Little Free Libraries.
and all sorts of other things.
Let’s stop. Pause. Look around. Take it all in. The big picture show.
Let’s see. What else?
In the year since I shut the doors on new registrations for ROD & FTB I’ve had plenty of inquiries into both classes. Why did I close them? Would I offer them again? etc., I thought and thought about what to do with the vast trove of material in both classes. It felt right to close them permanently last December, but as we primates are known to do, we hem and haw and waver and wonder. Did I make the right decision? I’ve percolated and let everything be as it is. Then last week on my retreat by the sea an idea came to me.
Idea 1: combine both classes into one offering for the price of one class? ($35) No, too complicated. I am the master and commander of all of my class websites. I build and host everything myself. What seems simple from the outside can be complicated once you start moving and sliding things about.
Idea 2: leave everything as is and just reduce the price of both classes to a price that is like 2-for-1
$17/per class is the magic number.
The extension price will also be $17/yr for each class, or you can just sign up again with a new email. Whichever works. Merry Christmas and have fun.
I was like a time traveler tinkering around with everything last night. Trying to remember how to change the prices, edit the text. Made me nostalgic for those days of online class business.
As for my other 4 classes:
They haven’t gone anywhere. In keeping with the holiday season, they are currently $35 Happy New Year. Ho Ho Ho!
You may wonder if I have any classes in the making.
Yes, I do.
Come with me down the hallway of my interior library. The wooden floors are worn and gleaming. There are candelabras lining the walls, comfortable chairs with needlepoint foot rests that point towards long windows out which you can see moonlit seascapes. Look beyond the waves! Jupiter and a sliver of moon. Hot cups of tea & black coffee. Piles of books. Ideas bloom and grow wings here. They propel forward slowly. I write them into being with my daily practice of taking notes and paying attention. I’m turning over the earth, planting seeds, tide pooling, mixing metaphors. Not trying per se to birth a class, but just seeing what develops. At night when I sleep, worlds of ideas swell and crash like waves. Even in the fallow times messages are being received.
Look, a pink cloud. A tiny white feather on the sand.
Now it’s Sunday. Dinnertime! Leave me a good comment. No pressure. After dinner I’ll come see what you’ve left me. Tell me what you’re doing, reading, cooking, seeing. I’m terribly grateful for all of you. In case you didn’t know. xo
Hello MAM. Things have been the usual dysfunctional in my life. Self employed now and wanting to chuck everything and move to the mountains. At least in the summer. Then back to the beach in the winter. I hope you get your ideas corralled and put together a new class. I may take FTB again cause I still have about 5 of those old photo albums stashed somewhere. If anybody wants to buy one, let me know. Also I have about 10 of those embroidery hoops from another class…..Jess sayin. This bunny has a bunion which has been acting up. Of course I gained BACK 30 lbs during COVID. My excuse was they closed the gym and if the world was ending I wanted to enjoy every last swill and bite. So trying to get back into walking and the gym. 61 times around the sun for me. Guess i’ll just keep orbiting, dodging asteroids, dogs, space junk, and all the other celestial debris.
Merry Christmas to us from MAM! I’m going to renew/start anew! I’ve been craving your classes, even the ones I’ve already done…I need these now! What a gift. Life has been to crazy & sad for too Hmong. You’ve given us just wear so many of us need Again. Thank you, nice person! I just love your mind & spirit! I’m sure everyone is as excited as I! Thank you MAM!
Sheila from Nebraska Panhandle, formerly of Denver, formerly of the beautiful Willamette Valley in Oregon.
I’m all excited about macrame again and making ornaments and wreaths and home decor. I’m taking Dawn D. Sokol’s Jingle journal class. I’m doodling a lot and really enjoying it. I’m appreciating this glimpse into your doings and looking forward to your next post.
Love, love, love all these photos! I also loved French Dirt! Hope you do, too. Lately I’ve been enjoying the videos in Oh My Gouache!
Such beautiful photos! Each one a painting. I like the idea of those two classes combined, but would consider either option, since I haven’t taken either class. I loved the OMG class. Since you asked, prepare for a wordy response to what I have been doing. I shall try to condense, but that is not my forte. Taking care of an elderly husband and dog, both of which are struggling. Trying to prepare myself for losses, hopefully not too soon. “It is a fearsome thing to love something which death can touch”. Indeed. Taking care of a large house and 5 acres, where storms have been kicking my butt, what with cleanup after the storms. Last one, we had two monstrous cottonwoods come down (small tornado whipped through), plus, several medium sized trees. Trying to keep the culvert unplugged so the lower pastures don’t become a lake. Stomach issues. Family history of colon cancer, prompting upcoming colonoscopy. Preparing to sell our two story house and property with a clear and closeup view of Mt Rainier, to move into a senior manufactured home park with postage stamp sized, but manageable yards, with views of metal doors and windows and rock yards. Downsizing all of the things I have hoarded for half of my life because there won’t be room. What is precious to me? What can I let go, because I have to? I welcome it in a way, but it is the getting there that stresses me. Still painting, but mainly watercolor because it is so easy. Well, and because it is my first love. If I could only keep one hobby with accompanying supplies, that would be it. Hand painting Christmas cards, in watercolor of course. Reading The Sound of Wings, about three women. Seems really good so far. After that I will read The Rainbow, a WW2 story of Poland. Watching YouTube channel “Perspective” Documentaries by Waldemar Janszczak on artists like Van Gogh, Gaugin, Holbein etc etc. The Holbein one was fascinating, and I learned so much! I had a bit of a summer garden and managed to get a respectable harvest of potatoes and onions, but it was a bad year for tomatoes. They were small, but so tasty! Also grew red and green bell peppers and dehydrated them. Okay, well, I have gotten impossibly wordy, so will spare you further blathering. I still read your blog every time, but don’t comment often, so I guess I am making up for that with one mondo comment! Forgive me.
I forgot…I have also been binge watching a YouTube artist named Sandi Hester. Her art reminds me somewhat of yours, Mary Ann. That same kind of loose and whimsical style that I love so much. Anyway, she is a HOOT, and very talented. Have you heard of her?
Karen I LOVE getting your terribly interesting and “wordy” response. I love knowing what everyone is doing in the world. What a heady cocktail of love and loss life is turning out to be. Oh dear! We are here moving through it all. I do like it when our worst fears aren’t realized. Or are at least more manageable than we once believed. Good luck on your move and colonoscopy and everything else. xo
p.s. just saw your 2nd comment about SH. Yes! I watch sometimes and enjoy in between watching people in morocco in vans and strong women building cabins in nova scotia.
Aloha! Tomorrow I head back to Maui where I live part-time. A little 2 year awaits my return and I await her aloha. 3 months apart, I feel sure we will pick up where we left off. She calls me Gran-Gran and I call her Lily.
My book recommendation is, “Nobody Will Tell You This But Me” by Bess Kalb. She writes for Jimmy Kimmel and I think you will like it.
Last night I finished “The Lincoln Highway “ by Amor Towles. I liked it so much I downloaded “Rules of Civility” to listen to on the plane. He wrote “ Shakespeare in Moscow.” I thought that was so-so and I can’t remember what it was about. I’ll never forget “the Lincoln Highway.”
I’m going to download some of your classes. You can come to Maui with me. I miss my friends when I’m on Maui but I’ll have you and Lily.
I too had trouble with “Shakespeare” (gentleman) in Moscow. Couldn’t finish. I like your title better! I have The LIncoln Highway on hold at the library! Glad to know you like it. Enjoy your dear Lily in Maui. Sounds divine.
Mary Ann,
so good to hear you. Your adventures are so refreshing! I adore hearing from you.
I am still out from work and besides the sciatica I found out I have a torn Meniscus on my right knee plus 3 other problems inside.
So, I am home and remembering I like to cook!
I do not do paper art or reconstruct books any more but I find coloring with Prismacolor pencils keeps my mind at peace using Johanna Basford books. (Her drawings are so fun) Still being creative!!
It sounds like your last semester has gone well and the students are thriving. You are such a joy and your students are so blessed to have you as their teacher. You are a rare gem. Be well.
Lorraine, Sorry about the meniscus troubles. drat! Cooking and coloring sound just about perfect. xo
Mary Ann! First of all, I’d like to thank you for the wonderful e-mails and insights that you send! I love seeing them pop up in my inbox! Second, your book and journal making classes have been some of my favorite courses that I have EVER taken — and I have taken a lot! I can, often, see your influence in many of the things that I see online and in person. It’s just a really special “look” that shows up. It’s not that I’ve seen anyone copying your ideas and claiming them as their own — I just see things that make me feel like they’ve learned from you! That’s really what teaching is about, isn’t it? I know that when I teach classes, I go very basic and then love to see my students add their own “take” and expand in their own directions on what I’ve given them. You are just plain damn good at what you do!
thank you Karyl. I do understand what you mean. We are all great imitators of each other and that is as it should be since we’re all in the wonderful wacky family of primates. Thanks for your ringing endorsement of my classes. I look forward to doing my next one one of these days.
Hi Mam! I do read your blog posts, Google Chrome is being a pain in the butt so I have to switch over to Firefox to leave a comment. I will undoubtedly be renewing or taking some different classes! You are such an awesome teacher Mary Ann! And your photos are SO beautiful!!! I love the roses, and the tiny dew drops on them. I admire you, your bravery to go places on your own. I should start doing that, I’m such a chicken! Lol
You are such an inspiration. I appreciate you so much more than you know!
Marva, once you take a trip alone you will want to take another and then another. I promise. The key for me is finding places where I can have lots of outdoor walks and outings and it isn’t crowded. I need SPACE. the beach is perfect for that. So good to hear from you. xo
Well I am totally landlocked here in Colorado, unfortunately. It I ever get up the nerve I will definitely tell you about it! 😀
Another awesome dispatch. Love that you are opening up your classes again. xo
I love that I’m going to see YOU again in December!
When you and your sister post I’m reminded to drop my shoulders, breathe deeply with long exhales and unclench my stomach. Thanks for that. xo
How is Kinito, your granny claw toes, and heart? Inquiring minds want and need to know! Sending baskets of heart shaped ice packs.
Never been to the west coast so I patiently or not wait for your posts to get a glimpse. So happy about the classes coming back. I have taken them all over the years but as procrastinator I have never really finished. Maybe this is the year! It’s always good to hear from you. Happy Holidays and take care.
Hi Melody! happy everything to you too. Glad you enjoy my posts from the coast.
Yay for class resurrection! I’m very glad you had a change of mind; you cheered my day! A beautiful poetic post as ever – sigh. xo
Maryann, I so enjoy your posts. It was so good to see Sharron – we go way back to Artfest! Just started The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles – it’s a long one and heavy too (weight wise). Happy Holidays! Ginny
I always think of embracing a new way of living and being after reading your posts. You give me permission to rest, observe, read and make art. The Northeast can be so accomplishment driven and stressful . Also , I find a respite from the damn name-will- not -be-mentioned, but I am a nurse, so you can guess. I often fantasize that I am your neighbor and you mentor me on the art of living gracefully and gratefully. Will I ever see you again? I hope so.
Of course we will meet again. In Amsterdam or Paris or somewhere terribly fun. Let’s get lost one night and have laughing attacks like before. I will NEVER forget that.
Absolutely love everyone of your posts . Moving back to California in January and will wave to you from San Clemente . I have begun looking forward to finding out what you are reading , you and I seem to have similar tastes . New class sounds amazing !
Love , Sharon
Let me know when you arrive. I hope your move goes well. You’ve gone through something v.v.v. hard and now another BIG thing is on your horizon. you’ll get there dear, Sharon. I know you will. xo
I love your posts, Mary Ann. It is so great to read a well written synopsis of everyday life from another artist. It always brings me back to my thoughts of my own life….those ok days, sort of bad days, and then there are those wonderful, sunny Winter days in Virginia where I get to sit at my desk and stare at the Blue Ridge Mountains and a persimmon tree still full of persimmons. I love my daily walk with a big ole English Sheepdog down a dirt road where I always find some miracle of nature. The best finds provoke my curiosity enough to bring it back, draw it, and do some research. Nature has the answer to most of our problems. Keep writing to me in your posts. Rhonda
Rhonda the letters will keep arriving. all the way to those gorgeous Blue Ridge Mountains. Your persimmon tree must be LOVELY. and your walks. and doggy. there is so much to be grateful for. xo
Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful photos and writing. So inspiring.
I always look forward to your posts with all your adventures and your wonderful photos but this time I have to say my favorite photo (alas it isn’t yours) is of your friend in the polka dot dress!! Fabulous photo–would love to know the story behind that one! and that paint by number kitten! I may have to retake the oh my gouache class–it was so many years ago I took it-it would be fun to revisit!
Hello from Nova Scotia
I just love seeing your newest post pop up in my email. I feel you are a kindred spirit. I too am so rejuvenated by the sea. I live 30-40 minutes away and head there whenever my head needs clearing. I hope to retire there someday. We here in my province, like so many others, have been experiencing wild weather but I am fortunate to not be affected so far. I am reading the Louise Penny series and love them so much. You should give them a try if you have not. I hope you have a lovely relaxing and luxurious vaction and find time for all the things you love. I look forward to your next post. Lots of love Carla
Thank you for sharing the lovely photos and your dispatches, I look forward to them. I am in very rainy WA, wishing for some sunshine, nice to see it in images.
I was purchased OMG before it’s going sale 3 days ago sad..sad..
by the way MAM, I love all of your class, For a long time I was ignore my sewing machine, after find your Stitchbookery class from Pam Garrison Blog, I was fall in love again with my Sewing machine and to your class. I was love junk journal already and mixed with my watercolor sketchbook, I even dont know the junk journal but from you evertyhing junk can we change to be beautifull things, amazing. right now I want to mixed my jurnal with junk and also learn from your OMG class. thank you MAM. very amazing class. I wish I can join all of your class in the next waiting list class.
May I Know is this price fixed forever or will back to normal in the new year?
Best regards
Sara
I wish we were friends in real life and I could come by for lunch and art making!
And why should I have to pay for ROD when I already did and it was for lifetime access as described at the time when I paid at full price…50 or 60 scoots?
Lovely post and beautiful photos as always. I love going along on your beach walks. I’ve just recently moved back to my home state of Idaho, after 28 years in Texas. Taking my time unpacking the art supplies and setting up studio space. I plan to hibernate when the snow flies and read and catch up on movies and do a lot of art work. May sign up for one of your classes again.
It’s lovely to get a glimpse into your world! I grew up in Florida and moved to California 20 years ago. I was all too happy to never go to a beach again. The California mountains are my happiness, but seeing the beauty of the ocean in your posts has helped me to see just how amazing it is! Thanks for sharing.
Recently moved back to Oregon after 2 1/2 years in Oaxaca, Mexico. Finding all my art supplies again is exciting to say the least. Made a full on turkey dinner for Thanksgiving because my daughter requested it. Tonight was turkey enchiladas, arroz and guacamole. I’ll definitely check out the classes you offer.
How wonderful! Thank you for opening up the classes. I am very grateful for you! I am stitching Christmas ornaments for my 7 grandchildren and their others. I have been considering an idea for an antique photo album – hand “slow” stitching collages for the photo openings, but first I need to make the journal. Bless you, Mary Ann.
Thank you for inviting me along to the beach. I’m here in the north, filling my zillionth journal in my own way as are you. Have been purging my hoard of past treasures to make more room for the present but when I come to my collection of Mary Ann Moss art and postcards I stop and hold them close. These will stay I say as I tuck them away and move them around. It’s a good feeling, like you are safe in my heart, a good thing in the world.
i still remember that rainy night in our past lives when we met at the thai restaurant in portland. or was it indian? love you to pieces. for now and always. xoxoxo
What a scrump-dilly-icious post!! The pix, are, as always, gorgeously mouth-watering ~ please say hello to SB from us (we were honeymooning there on 9-11) We are awaiting the snow here ~ have only had about 30 minutes worth on 11/23 that only stuck around for about an hour ~ supposed to be a hard winter here later ~ not looking forward to that!
And we just finished watching Sir Peter Jackson’s “Get Back” documentary of the Beatles ~ Fascinating!! Amazing to watch their genius as the songs came together ~
send some of that snow to ME. i will build a snow woman who will come for you in the harshest of winter and carry you back to santa babs. xo
Happy holidays! How do you like The book you are currently reading? I usually like the ones you suggest are good. Thank you for all of the beautiful pictures.
LOVE it v.v.v. much.
A stellar post as usual. The beach, the flowers, the art and the children. Your way of seeing, sharing and living life are a balm to my soul.
Looking forward to a new class and happy you made my old favorites available again.
I can’t remember when I last read your posts. For many years they have nourished my soul. I am a mountain person and live in the San Juans of Colorado but you give me the beauty of the ocean. Thank you.
Waving to you, Pam and sending out a beam of light to the San Juan mountains.
On this Sunday after Thanksgiving I’m grateful for the opportunity to spend time with family in the lovely area of Sequim on the Olympic peninsula in Washington. I’m thankful for your magical wordsmith ability. Thank you for sharing your life with us so lovingly. It’s a true gift.
Claudia, I thank you for your message. Your world up there on the Olympic peninsula sounds like a forested, wet paradise. I dream of going there.
I love your dispatches. Photos and words are so calming. Book recs are appreciated. Hooray for your classes available for all again. Can’t wait for future class!
The sea and shore are a balm to my soul as well.
I am listening to “Stranger in a Strange Land” and reading “Dune”. I have 4 adult kids who all read science fiction. I like to keep up and be a part of the conversation.
For dinner tonight I made turkey soup and fruit salad with a slab of leftover beer bread.
So nice to read your words. Stay well.
“a slab of leftover beer bread” YES.
to all of that. The books, and soup, and words.
thank you, Lori
I love your writing and your images. You are a poet in every sense of the word. I’m thrilled you’re thinking up a new class. I’ve missed your call to creativity and camaraderie. I’ll be first in line for our next adventure.
You still have a standing invitation to soup and tea and a walk on Asilomar Beach any time you are in Pacific Grove.
Gratefully…pat
hello dear pat in pacific grove. i look forward to another trip sometime to your beautiful peninsula. how it speaks to me.
… and I will meet you at The Steinbeck Center in Salinas, on your way to Pacific Grove 😉 .
I’ve commented before … I’m the one who lives in Salinas and lives a somewhat parallel life to you. I teach 5th grade (tell me what grade you teach again), and I got a chuckle when you listed what has been going on in the classroom, ha ha. I have been doing all of those same things, except we didn’t paint pumpkin pie, we painted a pumpkin patch. Good luck with the next three weeks, and I too, am on that same 3 – 3 schedule!
I’m rearranging and organizing and planning my 2022 trips. May in Manhattan Beach for an art retreat, think I should see Carpinteria for a few days before… off to look at Airbnb
oh what fun it is to browse airbnb and imagine trips. yes yes yes!
Great to catch up on your adventures. I have been suddenly and frantically packing. The Hubs and I found our “final” homestead in the Wisconsin woodland, nestled between 5 lakes. We have been in our current (and first!) home over 20+ yrs. Waaay too much stuff accumulated or not purged…so now I am scrambling like a squirrel before winter looking for boxes and packing up anything I cant part with!
susan, i’m going to have to insist you send me a picture of your homestead nestled between the 5 lakes. my imagination has requested it and i must insist. sounds breathtaking. i love squirrels.
Your photos of the beach brought tears to my eyes. This year I moved from my beloved west coast to West Virginia. I’m learning the area’s charms ( oh the songbirds!) but I still pine for the ocean , I miss the tide pools and the rocky shores.
dear sue, i know what you must feel. may the songbirds continue to bring you comfort. new areas to explore! new climates to navigate! let the adventure begin.
I love your emails. It makes me happy to see your adventures and especially happy to walk on the beach with you. I grew up in Miami and missed the water. Albuquerque doesn’t have much of it!
We bought a fifth wheel in April and have done a little traveling. The past two weeks we have been painting the interior with beautiful colors to make it more artistic looking instead of drab gray.
I have just finished crocheting 320 granny squares with a lot of different colors and I am now assembling them as a quilt for our fifth wheel.
I slipped getting out of the shower a couple of weeks ago and face planted onto the edge of the sink. My front teeth were pushed back and my lip is split open. I never wore braces as a kid but now I have them.
One day I would love to come visit and walk on the beach with you.
granny squares and a 5th wheel. Let the adventure begin. How nice to travel with your home in tow. I’ve often imagined such a scenario.
So sorry about your accident. That must’ve been painful and frightening. I often think of replacing my tub for just such a reason. slippage! Walk in shower sounds better.
Sending you a big dose of compassion and heart bubbles straight from my built in finger tip heart bubble machine. you get better.
oh my darling friend, how I love the way you write and paint and gather and share!
Look at the Taschen publication of William Blake’s illustration of Dante’s Inferno. Wow.
On the morning that I finished Cloud Cuckoo Land (up reading from 4 to 6am), I was delighted to hear a Trustyfriend send up a soft “whoo-whoo-whoo-whoo” from my back yard. What a gift.
i love the Trustyfriends who visit me at night. they call into my always open bedroom windows xo
Love seeing friends and the beach through your eyes.
Oh my! What a way to end the day. You are such a 🎁.
Thank you, I always look forward to your emails. You should write a book.
Fabulous, wonderful, beautiful photos. And your words are wonderfully colorful too. Thank you so much for sharing yourself with all of us.
Excited to gain access to some of your classes again! Thank you! I long for a week at the beach! Your post is gorgeous!
i’ve looked into my crystal ball and have seen you at the coast! before February 1st. it has been foretold, gwen. xo
So good to see those classes resurrected! xoxo
What a lovely post!