Self portrait challenge: black & white # 2
Posted on | February 14, 2007 |
Unexpected gratitude at 5:15 a.m., snow already piled high, and more steadily falling. A morning to myself, writing, with coffee. My studio a haven for a few hours, while I flail about like a spawning salmon, trying to get the words right. Working my way paragraph by paragraph towards the fresh water of what it is I’m really trying to say. Snowplows scrape the roads below our house, and out the window, a blur of white on white. Like love, like staying married, writing requires this: hard scrabble perserverance. So again and again, I show up at the page. And last night, on my way home, I stopped to buy a dozen roses wrapped in brown paper, for the man I love.
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February 14th, 2007 @ 1:43 pm
very sweet … and I love the pictures.
February 14th, 2007 @ 1:54 pm
My experience has been that a directly proportional relationship exists between the my writing and the time I keep my butt in the chair. I have come to believe the same is true of marriage. Unfortunately, I am easily distracted.
February 14th, 2007 @ 2:35 pm
February 14th, 2007 @ 3:08 pm
Paul, your comment made me laugh aloud! So apt.
February 14th, 2007 @ 3:46 pm
Showing up day after day, when you want to just get in the car and drive across the bridge to Copenhagen and beyond. That’s what it takes.
February 14th, 2007 @ 7:50 pm
Great pictures and such truth.
February 15th, 2007 @ 1:07 am
i love these photos.
February 15th, 2007 @ 1:15 am
February 15th, 2007 @ 12:52 pm
a beautiful glimpse into your day!
February 16th, 2007 @ 7:44 pm
beautiful diptych (is that spelled right?)
love the grain and overall processing…and even more the gratitude expressed!
February 17th, 2007 @ 10:02 pm
beautiful portrait!