books, books, and more books.
i love gift cards.
the bookstore is my favorite store.
clearance tables…they give me a chance to try something new.
recently discovered i spend about fifty percent of my day reading something.
is that good or bad?
it’s bad if i’m doing it to escape something that requires more of me.
like housework, relationships, piano, exercise…
i’m trying to read less fiction, more biographies and histories and commentaries.
that could be good.
expand. explore. experiment.
i’m about to take up painting. watercolors, to be precise.
i don’t even like art.
“Do you think she just woke up one day and said, ‘I think I’ll be a lawyer’?”
PennyDaisy 
The day you stop learning is the day you start to die.
Books are great! I sure wish I could spend half of my day reading something worthwhile. During the semester the extent of my reading is textbooks. Yuck. Bookstores are nice, although I really cannot stand half price books or barnes-n-noble. I just get an eery feeling when I walk into them. I really enjoy going to the Homeschool Conference in the summer and looking at all the Christian booths there. They have Vision Forum, Lamplighter, and some discount places. It’s wonderful!!
I missed seeing you last night! I hope you are doing well.
I don’t like art either.I look at it, and I just think….”why bother?”And then I read another book.
Novels don’t do anything for you. I have decided I don’t need them. Books with something worth thinking on are fun to read, too! I hope you have fun with your art. Perhaps you are developing a taste for it.
Never read love books!
Everything else is healthy-
Except for stuff that isn’t.
That’s my motto.
I’m glad you’re reading so much.. it inspires me. I have been thinking lately, I had ALL that time to read when I was a kid, and I USED it… Hallelujah, TY Lord! Because now I don’t get much time and I would love to just sit and enjoy books again. Today I had an hour or so off at school and I looked over the teacher’s bookshelf, delightedly found “On The Banks Of Plum Creek” and read through to my favorite part where Laura and Mary “roll” down the straw (after Pa said “no more jumping”).
You go girl! And water color — toughie… I got bogged down by it. My favorite is just a plain old pencil sketch. But I’d honestly say if you don’t like art you probably just haven’t seen art you like.
That’s aww? Stacy told me I needed a dog. That want ad is the evolution of that thread.
Am the same way with music….HATE listening to it (despise the radio), but LOVE the DOING of it: performing it, practicing it, expressing myself in it.Good luck in your watercolor endeavor!…can be a tough medium, unless you just LOVE playing and experimenting with “what if” effects, and can have some good old fashioned fun with it. If you like experimenting, then you can get some really neat joyful surprises!
Ahhh I see the aww. I really really want a dog, too. It just isn’t realistic right now.
Well, right now you’re watching pairs’ so…
ARGH!YES!
Great insights! (your comments on my post) You can only work from who you are! Good job! (oh..and, yes..I’m Dottie’s mom) To my new students in both art and music, I teach from the beginning: As Sabbath is for man, not man for the Sabbath, so is music and art. God intended it for OUR pleasure and to bless US, not US for IT. Though one must understand the rules and how it works to create certain effects, one must not strive only for the rules at the expense of their enjoyment. As we are created in His image, and HE is a creative being, so are we. You are a child of the Creator…and He delights in the work of your hands…however it comes out. So, don’t focus on “getting it right”, but be curious…and have fun!
Thank you, Sara. I’m getting married!!!