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April 13, 2007
Super Mom
All mom's hope that their kids will think of them as wonderfully witty and gracefully cleaver. We dream of making perfect chocolate chip cookies, amazing blanket forts, and ingenious crafts that they savor for a lifetime.
So, what do you make of life when you go to tuck your kid into bed and he says, "Are you still grumpy? Because I don't like it when you use your mean mommy powers on us."
Oh, well, super powers are still super powers whether their good or bad, so that counts for something, right?
Posted by mindy on 09:04 PM | Comments (3)
April 08, 2007
Stunned
After church today, I went to go get my paintings from the woman who is going use them for the women's retreat materials. She walked me into her living room and opened a small box from Kinko's Copies. Inside were a hundred or more 3x5 size manilla-colored cards with a beautiful picture of a cherry blossom on them. I was standing a short distance from them and said "Oooo" they looked like some beautiful kind of wedding stationary. Then it hit me...
It was a small painting I had done. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I held one in my hand just trying to grasp what was happening. All of a sudden inside of my body I felt this surge of unlimited possibilities. Like an amazing door of opportunity had just opened up to me. My work, my art, could be sent to anyone, anywhere. It had potential to be turned into anything printable. I could put my art on anything! Of course, I always knew this was possible, I am not an idiot. But it just seemed improbable. I just always thought that to get to that point I better be really (and I mean "Wow. You make it look so easy and flawless" kind of really) good at what I do. But even with it's flaws, and there are quite a few, the picture really looked nice. I am not trying to brag at all. I feel like the part of me that is able to do this creative stuff is a gift and I don't take it for granted.
I really want to share this painting with all of you! Now I don't want to do myself the disservice of putting a lame photo of it (like the the heart-ripped envelope) on the blog. So, I am going to let any of you out there see it in person for yourself. I am offering to send a postcard out to anyone who wants one. If your interested in seeing my very first printed piece of art that will inevitably catapult me into new unlimited possibilities please send me your address through the "contact" button on the left.
Oh, and you can all look forward to a new version of my site in the near future... Blessings to you, and thanks for stopping by!
Posted by mindy on 09:10 PM | Comments (2)