Sojourns into a change of season...

#11 Collage, drawing, " Bit's & Pieces" 

The journey into spring, summer begins...
the sojourn here in the high desert west takes longer...
it is more of a movement back and forth...
between winter to summer, it can't seem to decide...
nothing here moves in straight linear fashion...
after living here for years, and some a lifetime, this in and out weaving pattern becomes your way of life...
if you can stand it, if not you give up and move away...
i want to say the strong stay, but i am not sure that is even true... 
On staying one needs to adapt and work with the changing cycles of the countryside, hardly can one change the cycle of the high country desert...
it is stubborn here and does not give way very easy or at all... usually it is better to be flexible and follow  that in and out weaving of the seasons...
the environment is not always as it appears to be at first glance without spending sometime here... and most people don't have that kind of time to spend...

#12 Collage, drawing, "Elephant in the canyon"

Jumping into what i expect will be my final season working for the Forest Service in red canyon... then trying to figure out what to do with myself for eight months of a twelve month year will more then likely take this whole 2017 season to figure out, with hopefully multi-options come fall/winter...
i much rather like the term moving forward... rather
then retire-ment... sounds like stop... an old worn out tire with nothing left but a trip to the landfill... 
or driving around doing nothing and getting hit by a coal truck!    working till the end sounds better then,
sitting around waiting for the end, to move on.
The nice part of this all is that i don't see an end in sight only a steady moving on from one reality to the next, more challenges and opportunities to grow onto perfection...
i believe in Christ, so come what may.
Keep moving don't stop in the sand or the middle of a wash, stay ahead of the oncoming muddy wave...
get wet if i have too, but don't give up for nothing.

#12 Collage, drawing, detail...

Healing hurts, begins when we face the hurt in it's full force then grow through it...
Healing is active...we must be there, 
we must acknowledge and feel the hurt.
No conscience = no healing...
Cure is passive...
Healing is private...
Healing is a process of living while i/we face the pain.
Healing teaches... pain changes us... 
no pain suffered is wasted.
  We live life going forward...
we learn from life by looking back... 
Time is the Lord's.

#11 Collage, drawing, detail.

Not much about me or my ArT this go around, then again maybe a lot...
lots of insights since the last post...
always moving forward...
i always enjoy seeing images i make of my work, again insights i never notice as the work moves forward...

the dog wants to nap, soooooooooo
down for awhile and read a book...

CHEERS