​Its been a bit of an emotionally charged past few days…
Attended 2 online memorial services this past week…
Whispers of Love
Acrylic on Diptych 2x 24”x30” panels
When your heart is aching for someone you miss or hold dear
When you feel you’re numb going about the day
People exchange what seems meer perfunctory nods or hellos or even lowered gaze
Do listen again for the gentle whispers of love
The wind which swirled around you giving you a hug
Playfully messing around with your hair
The flowers swaying in the wind
Nodding bright cheery smiles as you walk past
Butterflies flitting about in staccato rhythm
Are inviting you to do the same bop in your steps
Have you been seeing monarch butterflies and now there is a white one?
An unexplained whiff of sweet gardenia smell
Whispers of Love are everywhere
When you let your sadness melt away to open your minds’ eyes and your heart’s ears..
You’ll feel that special love and bond you’ll always share…

​Touching up on some abstract paintings for a condo project
Felt a bit fragmented…
Not knowing which tasks on my plate to give attention to…
But by quietening my mind and redefining my chief objective aim for the day
I was able to recenter and focus..
Some days some tasks just seem mundane and not that exciting
But when executed and celebrated as little wins along the way
They add up and the project can be declared completed…
Proud and pleased I didn’t give in to the internal paralysis…
And distract myself with something else that doesn't really need doing...

​3rd Prize Plein Air Competition
I don’t like competitions…
For we’re all one..
But I Looove competitions…
In that it helps me become more of what I would like to be…
It helps shine a light …
On the remnants of negative rhetoric gathered over a life time
That I am still trying to rid of in order to fly…
“This painting looks like crap
Shall I push on and not give up?
Trust my head knowledge and heart experiences to push me into some kind of flow..?”
The mind control and self-awareness I am able to harness through practice
Are the ultimate rewards I most like to reap from a competition!

​It took a plein air competition to get me out of 45 days' hiding this past Saturday..
I was determined to see beauty in this seeminglingly banal back alley
Even though we were in the beautiful Lucy Maud Montgomery Garden
I was detemined to see whatever was good and beautiful behind all that's happening at this time..

​It is said one cannot understand the Universe before understanding oneself..
So I sequestered from the world for the last 45 days to seek within…
No social media and no going-out but for 8 times since March 13th
The quietude I progressively found ..
Was seducing me to want to stay forever in this bubble of peace
The more I listened
The more profound .. the sweeter the silence became
I then learnt I cannot stay away forever…
For it is also in my interactions with the world
That better reveal more of what I am made of
I found I need my fellow human beings
And they may possibly need me too…
I am sorry to have missed your Birthdays, the special moments you shared …
But I remembered you in my prayers for the difficult times you endured