It is Tuesday and time to write a 'Slice of Life."
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Happy March, everyone!! Today begins our ‘March madness’ of writing – a month of writing deeply into moments of our days, a month of wondering what to write about and how to get the elusive onto the page. I’ll begin with a tale of one of my dearest mentors.
Granddaughter Frog is a five year old artist. She is ‘one’ with drawing, always with a tool in hand and sketching, doodling, trying.
It seems like just yesterday she found serenity in mystery worlds like this –
and then she gently moved into the wholeness of circles –
Soon, flowers were her muse. Flowers, flowers, flowers. I am forever awed by her peony:
Now, the flowers are rare and the muse is unicorns.
unicorn – a mythical animal typically represented as a horse with a single straight horn projecting from its forehead.
Oxford Dictionary definition #1
All unicorns, all the time. Frog fancies herself a unicorn, I think. She moves through the house like a unicorn giving chase. She draws them everywhere. Her first efforts looked like these:
I look at these with eyes of wonder, reminded of the marvel of Kandinsky, Picasso, Escher, this sense of
oh yes, I see the unicorn, no, no, I don’t, yes! yes! I do!
I am drawn into her artistry, the insight and whimsy that fuels her renderings…how did she get to this fanciful image? I want to hold onto it forever, to see the world through her eyes, the details, the parts, how everything is separate and yet whole.
These first unicorn images were all too brief, only a week or two, I think. Working steadily, she began looking at them differently, considering a new perspective, a new angle. Now, Frog’s unicorns look like this:
She tells me they are not quite right, yet but she loves these unicorns. My granddaughter fills me with desire for a unicorn of my own. I hope you’ll join me as I search.
unicorn – something that is highly desirable but difficult to find or obtain.
Oxford Dictionary definition #2
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