Calligraphy Flourish Friday - A Country Pathway

Hello friends. I hope you've had a great week.  This is a piece I did for my son to give as a gift to his Australian homestay family.  (He was given the opportunity to spend a weekend with a local family and LOVED it.)  We wanted the gift to reflect Indiana, so I used a photo I had taken from a park near our home.  The text is the first stanza of Hoosier poet, James Whitcomb Riley's,  A Country Pathway.

Wishing you a wonderful weekend with time to wander along a winding pathway.

Go forth and flourish!

xo

Jane

Moleskine Play

I needed to take a few hours break from wedding work.  I've kept journals off and on since I was in junior high, but only began keeping "art journals" since about 1999.  You can see more of my art journals here.  Every year I list as one of my goals to work more consistently in my various art journals, but it's hard to do when your work space and play space are the SAME space.  It felt good to clear a spot and play this morning, although I see I dated it two days from now. I must be looking forward to the weekend!

I love this poem by Emily Dickinson:

Crumbling is not an instant's Act

A fundamental pause

Dilapidation's processes

Are organized Decays.

'Tis first a Cobweb on the Soul

A Cuticle of dust

A Borer in the Axis

An Elemental Rust.

Ruin is formal - Devil's Work

Consecutive and slow -

Fail in an instant, no man did

Slipping - is Crash's law.

It's a good reminder that it's the small, daily choices we make that can lead to our downfall.

Here's to keeping the Cobwebs off our Souls!

(I'm sorry for any duplications - I had to edit this post.)