moo!

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once a loner, always a loner.
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being on one's own isn't too hard, unless someone points out, how lonely you really must be? 

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and when one doesn't immediately reply, - silence. at that point the speaker's attention is drawn towards the next person's case and one is left alone with one's less than brilliant answer. 

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today three local creative inhabitants are being honoured in their lives' works, by inaugurating the bizar route in their village, suburb to the town i live in. it is a brilliant september sunday, literally. the sun dashes off everything and everyone, the cows are but displaying a hilarious late summer moo, the walk taking us through fields and natural lay-bys, up alleys and through dry mud. exhaustive but immensely satisfying. 

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but so. before the group walk starts, i get asked that question. - on your own, are you? - who's with you, no one? - will you stay for afters? - oh well, okay then. - bye! and off they generically trod. 
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i keep myself to myself, some ten minutes behind said group. on this clear day, i see them proceeding from afar. no fear of getting lost in the wide open fields.

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by the time the walk abates, there seems to be plenty to talk about, on the village square, amongst friends and fiends, in between blaring speakers. 
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and ah well.. thanks, but no thanks. honestly. 
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what i can do, is offer you this, gladly. 
♥

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drawing | mandala

quite unwillingly so, have i designed a dinner plate? the truth is i did not know which direction this drawing was taking me. since, i've been researching the subject and bumped into zentangle, zendoodle and zendala (the links here but a few random examples). i still feel a little reticent on the spiritual side of mandalas, but what a kaleidoscopic stimulus drawing circles, curves, lines and shapes within circles prooves to be. i feel so elated, i can't wait to come and find you all {probably by tomorrow only}. thanks so much for your enthusiast playing, crew: 

stefanie,patrice,rosemary,

barbara,renilde,victoria,

helen,sus,norma,

ariane,céline,olga,

{lynne?},tatjana,jgy,

sabine,mano,carole, 
rachel,greta,...

corner view ≈ horrible {and not}

i will need your imagination on this one, for i did not photograph the event. just last night, i only managed to microwave boil my spuds on the wrong settings. as i pulled my barquette out, i perceived the disaster: like a tupperware bomb imploded over those delicious 'tatoes, now swimming in molten plastic. horrible! 
so, as to go all for zen over sa[i]d misfortune, i offer you a natural intermezzo from just last weekend. probably the last, last summer weekend too. ☻ ps - at special request! the beetroot hummus recipe below!

jane's corner view, francesca's hosting,tanïa's theme. 

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beetroot hummus recipe ☻ whizz up about two sliced knots of beetroot (tossed in a light vinaigrette of olive oil & vinegar, spring onion, pepper, salt and a good sprinkle of ground cumin) with two heaped table spoons of {black} beans and one table spoon of tahini paste; next add a tea spoon of mustard and two heaped table spoons of thick yoghurt. splash this mixture with the juice of half a lemon and run it through the processor until satisfied with consistency. in this way obtaining a slightly runnier version to its classic chickpea brother, it holds far less digestive issues (as the classic pea one may do). bon appétit!

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today's toast

rice dolmades, beet root hummus and sour dough bread
recipe

drawing challenge NEW THEME : mandala

good old spirograph, what else? 

how about a mandala, honey, an old acquaintance used to ask of me, if or when i started to talk gibberish. i hated mandalas for that reason, because i love talking gibberish. so i thought it could be interesting to do something with a mandala theme, and why not draw a-one, or whatever whichever? it is a mediation exercise, of that i am convinced, and it soothes the soul in all the right places too. but i also still LOVE gibberish, so's you all know! feel like giving it a try? there's no end to what a mandala is, can be, or even wants to be. i'm curious! leave your name here, we post the weekend of september 29 & 30. i think we will be in for a real treat...  

remember kaleidoscopes?

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courtesy allows me to enlighten a little on the mandala? the {sanskrit word for} circle symbolises the universe. 
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concentric diagrams within a mandala often hold significance in buddhism and hinduism, but since we're not fussy (i know i'm not), we can add whatever we like to our circles, i don't think buddha will mind either.
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used in spiritual exercises for the purpose of concentration, i can't say what the actual effect would be, since i have not tried it. i don't think i will either, i believe the exercise is very much in the creation: turn inwards... and play. why, yes! that is concentrating. ☻
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sooooooo.... will play ☺ : stefanie, patrice, {rosemary}, barbara, renilde, victoria, helen, sus, norma, ariane, céline, olga, {lynne?}, tatjana, jgy, sabine, ¿mano?, ...

corner view ≈ time for myself

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after recent turmoils and good advice from a.o. all of you out here in cyberspace, i have been taking time for myself a-plenty, up to the point i am near guilty of it. 

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in a considered attempt to allow myself back to freedom of the mind (!), and time, i dove back into books. 
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i am currently reading bruno's dream. i found it, just last week, at the second hand bookshop. 
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i felt hideously happy to unearth this-here-stack of oldies from just one bookshelf space. 
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jane's corner view,  francesca's hosting, kasia's theme. 
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popped out for an hour

drawing | web

have you noticed? i initially misspelled what i was writing. i think the back of tinyWOOLF in the corner had something to do with it. as it was way too late to, erm, start over, i've had to be imaginative... actually? i rather take to tiny drawing mistakes, it makes the solving particles in our creative brains itch, does it not? cobwebs all over the place at renilde's. 

corner view ≈ impression

weekday morning. wake up, get up. think up breakfast. let cat in. prepare packed lunch. get dressed. leave for the train. get in at work. get used to the office feel. eat lunch. walk. live through the afternoon. take the train home. get boiled a little. evening. prepare supper. write, draw, dream. wash up. wash. put on pj's. hope the world will go quiet now. night. sleep. under the constant impression life is there for the taking. so that's what we do. we take. fieuuwww. jane's corner view, francesca's hosting, ö's theme. 

drawing | swim

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night swimming, for instance. would you believe i have never ever done that? elated, i can admit there's at least one thing in my life i have never ever done. which turns it into a first, for when i will, one fine day. 

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i've cranked up the theme, to a stylistical display of midnight blue sea waves {for the sole purpose of that night swimming still to happen}. this week's theme by enthusiast rachel. today, we do make the grade for synchro swimming, don't we? ☻

corner view ≈ growing

how fluent flow is, how logical and yet, at times, how improbable: the growth of a house renovation, from shambles to organised shambles, not wanting to put too fine a point on it. the growth of our son into a young man, struggling with unexpected tits for tats. the growth of inner strength, by confidence through experience. not forgetting growth through conclusive mistakes. 

however! all for a good cause. i can't shake that best exotic marigold hotel feeling now, in which a weathered british cast complies with a simple life, and finds out it's never too late to grow into your own. jane's corner view, francesca's hosting, kasia's theme.

do your worst

sunday evening.