Sunday, February 15, 2009
Working through the difficulties
A trying week of computer problems on top of Mother's rapid plunge into the realm of Alzheimer's. I wanted to send some images to my mother by post, but the printer failed to be recognized by my computer. And new images couldn't be added. Oh why didn't I back up all that could be backed up when I saw these problems coming up? My mother was on my mind and my mind was not functioning at its highest. So the computer is reconfigured and the folder holding all my info appears to be empty....like my mother's mind appears sometimes. We must adjust to change and accept what is. At least I could find myself painting and the mind could let go of responsibility and let the paint happen and I found myself laughing with delight...such a relief to be laughing with delight. Here are 2 of the small studies--fire and air. A Japanese painter I have been following the work of and learning from does a small painting each day. He is a guide for me in these days of trial. Thanks you, Hiroshi.
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Dear Maggie, what a trial to be undergoing, but I love your association of the computer blanking out with your mother's difficulties. It's all one system, eh?
I like the new sketches too. The first one is like a bed -- our death bed, possibly (not to be too grisly). And the second one, with it's more organic tendrils (rather than the blocks and lines you often do). Maybe things are melting...
Thanks, Janet...in Ohio now with Mama and glad to have this computer link with my regular life as I try to be the best life support here. She's a great woman and we are having fun together, but hard to think of her in a nursing home which is coming through the mists toward us...the path unclear but in process.
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