Allowing

There are some things that just take their own time. Today, I finished one of the first milagros I started when we began this journey.  It is small.  I had thoughts that it should be easy to finish, that it would go quickly because of its size, because I liked the pieces I was using, etc.  None of those thoughts got the work done.  I allowed myself to give the work some space and I allowed myself time to find the right materials to finish.  Funny, the backside took almost as long as the face.  I call this work, She walks in, Dreamtime. 

A child’s china doll leg sits on broken dishes.  The pattern in the dishes makes me think of Africa or tribal cultures.  The colors are of the earth.  A radiant halo of natural blue-green colored stones are the colors of sky and grass.  The soft blues of the stones remind me of a type of turquoise referred to as dreaming turquoise.  There were times during the making of this small piece where I would start crying, softly, like a gentle rain.

I feel poetic.  I wonder if it is the after-effects of  Dan’s birthday party where his friends read him their favorite poems.