play us a slow song

i realise i'm not showing much of my drawing going on. there are simple reasons for not doing so: i simply cannot publish here before it appears... there. i have created a new pinterest board however, where i will let grow 'my' homes collection. bear with me on that. 

which doesn't mean there's not a lot of drawing going on anyway, aside from planning summer holidays, finding my final way through cartoon pages before long, the daytime job, the physiotherapist straining a pulled muscle, tiny sickness... spring drill, you know?  

most of this also relating to rather taking it easy then trying to do it all. chaos is a fickle thing, especially if unattended to and playing in the mind only. it leads me to unpretty inertia whence physical exercise seems to be the most reasonable way out.


just last weekend joe jackson was squealing from the kitchen radio to play us a slow song. that elegant eighties album sprang to mind and memories of jackson in an open air concert. you never think how you're gonna feel about stuff decades later, now do you?


this awareness occasionally overrides anything i do. from wishing my life'd been completely different to feeling quite happy with what i've got are just two parts to a show i live every day, like most everyone. and always also playing a slow song when needed.

7 comments:

  1. I for one, do NOT know how I have ever lived without Pinterest. Seriously. Love this post...it speaks to me. Be well friend. N, x

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  2. Hi Nadintje,
    I realized that there is a grey-tone theme in your post with a bit of hope and color at the end. Sometimes especially springt with new life and new choices and all this possibilities are tiring and overwhelming cause we don't know where to start and might not start at all because of it. We might just want to much at once and have no patient at all - or is t only me. There is a nice african saying " the grass does not grow faster when you pull it". So true and still we try to pull it anyway.
    ☛❤ barbara bee

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  3. He has a lovely voice! Hope you get better soon! Hope you had a lovely weekend!

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  4. ah joe jackson. I thought of Michael first, and would have said, that was 1997 in my back garden. but then he was also in Werchter in 1988 and 1992

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  5. Hello Nadine, thinking of you today ...

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  6. Just dropping by to send big hugs! I hope you and yours are all safe and well. xoxo

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  7. I do that, a whole other life then loving my own. I had an idea for a story and thought of you to illustrate it. One day :)

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