Painting on a Friday night, music playing, dancing and singing out loud. I had to be home tonight, so since I couldn't be out on the town, I filled my time with activities I enjoy – painting and listening to music! I worked on two pieces. I finished the one I started last week and started a new one. Above is a video of me working on the first one, and below I've included a playlist of what I was listening to while working. I selected what Apple Music calls "Ariann's Station."

I’ve been dreaming of the ocean. Floating, swimming, letting my head be submerged in the cool water. Emerging from the sea with my hair dripping wet. Happily plopping down on a sun warmed cushy towel, salt slightly burning my smiling eyes. Someone hands me a slice of watermelon and asks if I want an aloo pie. I sigh, contentedly. Yes, please. With all the fixings. I chomp into the watermelon It’s sweet, juicy, cold. I smile and sigh, contentedly. Not too much of the sauce, I

It’s September 1st (how did we get here so quickly?) and it’s time for my blog every day challenge! This is the 4th year I am doing this challenge of blogging for a month straight, and the impetus of doing the challenge this month came earlier today because of a video I keep thinking about. I was in the garden cutting flowers for my office, and a phrase from the video I saw recently kept swirling in my mind. “Painter’s paint.” An artist was saying that during university he w

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