Ree-flections
If you’re reading this, thank you for sticking around while I navigated many rivers of heart-things (rivers, rapids, rivulets, oceans and all other water-worlds).
I’m trying to ree-turn to my regular Ree-Writes newsletter, and will start with a pared-down approach and see how I go.
On a creative front, the most creative output I can lay claim to is starting an art-practice Instagram account to share my doodles of cats, flowers and trees. My main Insta account is mostly dormant (see: heart-things ref above).
In my collage of recent/everyday happenings:
From left to right, clockwise:
- Brisbane has had a summer of butterflies, and I’m immensely grateful for personal reasons. For scale, the magenta flowers are the size of a fingernail.
- The palm tree and quirky cat are the types of doodles I’m sharing on my art-practice Insta.
- LittleOne’s reading, writing and drawing skills are going great guns – check out this adorable unicorn perched on a rainbow. I’m doing to have to lift my game to keep up!
- This is my beloved spotted dove/collared pigeon. It used to be part of a pair who would nestle in our frangipani tree in summer and winter, but it’s been flying solo these days. I will never know what happened to its mate, but I’m glad it still finds shelter in our frangipani tree.
- The intense Brisbane summer humidity promptly switched itself off at the start of autumn. The sun has started shortening its days and is now rising halfway between its summer and winter rising spots.
- Our mango tree grew many mangoes this summer, and bats and moths and many other creatures came to feast. Including this amazing night-time moth-butterfly.
I hope my words find you well in your world, and I hope you enjoy this issue.
Writing & Creativity Cool Links + Random Reads
Readers running bookshops: the romance and the reality. Maybe don’t read this if the idea of running a bookshop is a vital part of your bookish dreams.
He’s famous for his sunflowers and starry skies, but did you know Van Gogh had a thing with painting cypresses?
Random read: See how a Canadian researcher cracked a 135-year-old uncrackable code found in a 19th-century silk dress.
Random read: Apparently, there are plans afoot to un-dead the dodo. Not zombie-fy but resurrection a-la-Jurassic-Park.
Something I created
The Tree of Clouds
One day, a cloud dropped the seed it was holding.
The cloud hadn’t quite meant to drop it right at that very moment, but these things happen, and then they happen as they will. So the cloud didn’t worry about the seed and floated on its way.
The seed twisted and twirled around in the blue sky…
Read the rest here.
Backstory: I’ve had this Snapshot Story illustration done for nearly a year. The words didn’t want to come. I’d finally given up on the words, deciding the Tree could be a stand-alone creation. So of course the words arrived yesterday. I’ve scribbled them down as a first-draft ree-turn story.
Thank you
Du fond du coeur, thanks for reading x
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Find my scattered self online: My Dodo Au Gogo blog | My art-practice Instagram | My BlueSky | my website.
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