11/15/24 Macrina Bakery, Maple Leaf neighborhood
I had a birthday last week – not a “big” one, but an ordinary,
run-of-the-mill one. Still, I enjoy milking birthday celebrations for as long
as I can. The first was a little sketching party with a few friends at Macrina
Bakery (above).
The next was a personal tradition I’ve had for decades: Going to the Green Lake Starbucks early on my birthday for my free drink (one of few perks that haven’t been eliminated). When I worked full time, another personal tradition was to take a vacation day on my birthday (because working on my birthday was against my principles), and even then I enjoyed getting up early for that free drink. Before I became a sketcher, I just brought it home, but now I usually drink it there and sketch.
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| 11/16/24 Green Lake Starbucks |
The third sketch journal page below is a small celebration of my ongoing downsizing project. I’ve been losing momentum lately because the tasks are more onerous now: Tedium combined with sadness is not a good recipe for enthusiast productivity. I kind of dread it, and at the same time, I’m getting close to the end, so I want to finish – but it’s slow. The small load I took to Goodwill on this day is probably the last for a while – all the rest is either trash (not much), recycling (lots) or shredding (hopefully not too much).
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| 11/21/24 Victrola Coffee Roasters, Ballard neighborhood |
I enjoy reading the comments that go with your sketches. I'm glad you were able to celebrate your birthday over a few days. It makes it even more special. Happy Birthday!!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the birthday wishes, Joan! I actually had a couple more celebrations after that! ;-)
DeleteI too like elongated birthday celebrations . . . cards showing up in the mail before and after the actual day, a phone call or e-mail here, a lunch date there . . . I also like to treat myself to food I don't make myself and don't often have. Glad you had such a fun one! What will you do when the downsizing is all done? It has been such a big project which I'm sure you will be glad to have over, but then what will fill the time spent on it?
ReplyDeleteWhen it's all done, my intention is to spend time working in the studio that I am moving into! :-)
DeleteNow THAT sounds exciting! Looking forward to what comes out of there. :-)
DeleteHappy Birthday Tina! I think downsizing can be fun at first, but then it starts to come down to heartfelt items. We watched Nomad land again last night, and Fern had her things in storage at the beginning. It took almost to the end of the movie for her to finally let her things go.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the birthday wishes, Cathy! I remember that movie... it's really hard to let some material things go because they are so infused with feelings and memories.
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