Today is the 7th, and my tally is at six for the "Month of Letters" challenge, so I am pretty much caught up after the late start. Yesterday I sent a Postcrossing postcard, a long-delayed Christmas thank-you, and a postcard to a young family friend who baked a cake for our get-together Sunday afternoon. (I of course stitched willfully ignorant through the ostensible reason for the gathering ....)
And this afternoon I sent Julia's photo in her Rose Parade band uniform to the grandparents and honorary auntie --
I started to read Nancy Enge's blog a few months ago because of her miniatures, but a recent post struck a chord, albeit one in a minor key, talking about being in a bit of a funk -- I recognize that feeling of vague disappointment in everything one does, the paradoxical combination of restlessness and general fatigue, even the buttery-fingers part. I had a very stressful Christmas, and have already suspected that my starting a dozen or so new books and projects in the weeks since is both a symptom and a sort of self-cure. It's just that the restlessness tends to be a bit frustrating, too, when what you need is to relax, to re-focus. I have been tempted now and then to start up something along the lines of Blackbird's "Show and Tell Friday" -- but more immediately, Nancy wonders if an "arbitrary and not-too-difficult challenge practice might help" to jump-start the creative energy -- thus the ABChallenge, to take a photo of something representing each letter of the alphabet in order, something simple and really not demanding at all, just to blow those cobwebs away, as it were. I took these photos the other day -- yes, the same day I decided to do the Month of Letters, that's what I mean! -- and I have to say right up front that I like Nancy's watermark/caption so much that I have promptly lifted the idea for myself! Here is A, B, and C --
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