company @ christmas

Yesterday the temperature rose above freezing for the first time in weeks, and the cat and I spent some time outside, investigating the rows of icicles forming along the new gutters, and the deepening tracks of the rabbit road. The snow was melting in soft, wet heaps, and the cat made nose prints and paw prints while the sun shone out of a clear, blue sky.

We had company last week and through the weekend, which ratcheted both the cozy festivities and my usual holiday stress to new heights. I miss having that full house, but I think we’re all glad that things are back to normal.

Whatever that means.

I’m back in the new MIDORI notebook today, noodling around with a sepia #1 SAKURA Pigma Micron while layers of my adventure comic dry. I think it’s going to be good for me, learning to communicate in a different medium.

These drawings are all from photos taken on my Light III. The first page took me a couple days but this time I challenged myself to power through both panels.

Not quite two months into my blogging experiment I find myself getting really excited for the future. At the end of a year spent meditating on what I want from life, the blink of an eye from 40, I feel like I know where I want to put my energy now.

I was disappointed in myself because I took a bye week from the blog while we had company. But yesterday, when I looked at the post I hadn’t managed to complete while they were here, I decided to just publish it as it was.

Listen, reader, I’m still learning. Sometimes this comes easy but mostly it doesn’t. Just like everything else.

I hope you’ll stick with me while I find my voice — I have so much I want to share.

Here’s to blistering cold days and colder nights, here’s to forgiving ourselves for not being perfect.

Here’s to you, reader, wherever you are. See you next time.