Long week……craaaaaazy long week with at least two to three overlapping meetings every day.
Also, Circle Craft Christmas Fair, which is almost always a lovely-after-work-couple-of-hours-on-a-Thursday-before-the-insane-Friday-and-weekend-crowds-arrive-to-clog-the-convention-centre-up day to try to forget the multiple-meltdowns-you-narrowly-missed-and-the-one-or-two-you-didn’t-because-amazing-people-that-you-work-alongside-and-keep-you-sane-even-though-they-don’t-realize-they-do kind of week.
So that was a definite plus.
I bought a fabulous painting of a crazy looking chicken from a woman who lives and paints on Gabriola Island and knows a colleague of mine who also lives there. I had a great chat with her last year when I bought a calendar of her paintings, for my sister-in-law, and some painted coasters for ourselves. Her story; she moved to Gabriola Island from Newfoundland….with her geese in tow on the plane because she couldn’t leave them behind. She told it to me far better.
She did another calendar, for rescue animal charity work, this year, so my sister-in-law is going to receive another fabulously fun calendar.
The chicken painting, did I need it? Of course not, but I loved it because it made me think of Mom. If Mom was still alive, it’s what she would have been receiving for Christmas. Instead, I’ll frame it and hang it on the big blank brick wall in the bedroom, and it will make me smile and think of her.
Check out her art – Zaworski Art and Homestead – you just can’t help but smile at it.
We had to run down into Gastown to pick something up before hitting the convention centre and I just saw this tree as we passed by. Kirk was considerate enough to pull over while I was trying to unlock my phone quickly to not miss the opportunity, and I got a not great, but still good enough, snap of the tree.
I kind of appreciated the messages after the week that this has been.
So peace, inspiration, and engagement to everyone.
