As I begin my seventh decade of life, I reflect more on
the positive things happening in my life right now. Michael and I have all our
parents still alive and living independently and with only some of the
indignities of extreme age. We look
forward to some more travel in the years ahead as we begin our retirement or
refocussing as Michael has termed it. We
hope to buy an old van to do more western travels and for Michael to use as a
paintmobile or mobile outdoor studio this year.
In the meantime we enjoy our twice annual Sedona plein air painting
workshops, Lubec area plein are painting workshops and other special workshops
and events which involve travel around the US and the larger world!
We are very
settled in our Ramah, New Mexico home and look forward to more summers on Campobello
Island, New Brunswick with my parents where I continue to learn about organic
gardening from my farm raised father.
The only sadness this year was learning our young rescue
dog Raku has a lifelong eye condition which might lead to blindness. In the meantime we administer eye drops twice
per day for her pannus and hope to keep blindness at bay for many years.
Happy Holidays and have a great 2020 to all who reads this
blog.
