admin March 24th, 2008
That sounds ominous, but it wasn’t. I just didn’t have time to write about the weekend during the weekend that is all….or I didn’t make time to write about it. Anyway, Easter Saturday was a really cold morning. When I went out for my morning fitness walk, Sassy, our beloved she-manx cat, barely lifted herself out of her bed.
  Here she is in her royal swan bed.  My dad made this bed as a planter, but after the first set of geraniums died, her royal highness Sassy, took over years ago, and it is now her place. It was so cold though, she wouldn’t even come to the door looking for a hand to pet her, or a handout of food.
This is the sunrise that greeted me on that Saturday morning. I wanted to capture the abundance of snow on the foothills, but I don’t think this photo does it justice. We really don’t have snow on those hills very often, especially not on Easter morning.       
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Easter Sunday rather a disappointment to me, as I didn’t at all get the sermon at church. The time of worship was good, but the best part was when my friend Mike read from Matthew the part about not worrying about the future, each day has enough worry of its own. It reminded me of a book I recently read called The Shack. 
 It is a very powerful book, and one of the best parts was about God’s love for us. The phrase “God loves you” is so over done these days, I find it rather meaningless but this book reminds us the God is “especially fond” of us…all of us, even if we don’t acknowledge His hand in our lives. The whole “His” references are challenged in this book too, as God first shows up as a very large African-American woman. I love it!!!!  There are many far-right seekers of God that would be offended by that, and the far-left seekers get too wrapped up in themselves to see that God is both male/female. He created us that way in His/Her image. I still refer to Him as Him, but it is good to know that He is our mother as well……Kinda trippy and metaphysical I know, but it is a good book, and the book is not hard to read at all. There are no pictures, and I even managed to get through it in 3 days….
Another great book (with some REALLY trippy parts) as well is The War of Art . 
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 It is rather strange, and parts of it are hilarious, but some of it speaks well about fighting artistic blockages of all sorts. It rather demonfies “resistance” and glorifies perhaps defies art.  The author has some strange religious anger brewing underneath his ramblings, and some of that I found rather annoying, but I did like how he faced resistance head on and basically challenges the reader to keep plugging through all the barriers that keep one from creating.  I recommended it to my friend Mark Lipinski on the phone, and while we were talking he ordered it from Amazon. I am wondering what he will think when he reads it. I think the line that I read him likened the problems of Resistance to somethings like acne, world hunger, and erectile dysfunction.   I KNOW that the ED is in there, that is what made me laugh out loud.Â
Anyway back to Easter Sunday….it rained and rained and rained…..not very “springy”……so the Pagan Easter part of the celebration was pretty drenched down….did see some neighbor girls way out back running around in boots and fancy dresses looking for eggs….that was pretty funny!!! The Christian part of the celebration left me rather sad….I think I must have missed it….all of it…the point of Jesus on the cross and ressurrecting on Sunday I “KNOW” it in my head, but my heart sure didn’t seem to notice, and I think that is the point where I was very disappointed by it all..
This is supposed to be an “Artistic” blog, so I don’t know why I wrote all that heavy stuff…it is not like anyone really reads this stuff anyway.  But there you have it, Easter weekend in a nutshell…..
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 This was shown today at the Saturday Sampler class at Ben Franklins in Monroe by Cathy Wierzbecki of Time to Quilt. Cathy showed us how to make great corners on the binding of the quilt.  I have never been too satisfied with my bindings, and this sounds like it will really work well… I am going to send this entry to Mark Linpinski ’cause I think he really needs to do a blurb on this in his magazine Quilters Home. As soon as I try it out, I will let you know for sure it is a great tool…..but I feel quite confident in advance that it will work….for me to try it, I really need to finish something, huh? I am working on great many things right now…look for more postings coming up…..
