Tuesday, October 14, 2008

hopey birthday

My hope won't measure or be confined, my hope is expansive and has a wonder filled full moon today, my birthday. I got up early because I wanted to steal some studio time from a busy day and make my own HOPE banner. I confess to not having read the rules or the mission or any of that stuff and it looks like something is odd here. I just liked the notion. Having hope means looking to the future beyond any troubles or concerns of the present. Before anything else, one has to have hope. I have a lot of hope for our future but I feel like, at this point in time, I have to protect it like a candle in the wind. I have to remind myself daily that a lot of people feel the way I do and it's not just the folks who put stickers on their cars or go to rallies and get on TV that get the job done. It's also the people who have HOPE. The translation from pixels to cloth continues to please me. As most of my stuff , it's a bit wonky but I thinking about mounting this one somehow so all will true up eventually.

9 comments:

susan said...

happy birthday to you! love the bugs?!! dont care for the real kind after spending 35 years in hawaii where i dont care what kind of clean freak you are, you will have bugs in your house...cockaroaches that are the size of b52s and they fly...so happy hardly any bugs here :-)

arlee said...

First i saw this as a bug, but then i realized it's a walking table, ready to receive and display your gifts and art.

Lauren The Artist said...

Happy Birthday! ~jen~

mzjohansen said...

What perfect sense that you would be a Libran ! Enjoy this beautiful day and moon-lit evening. Congratulations. Live long and prosper !

Natalya Khorover Aikens said...

Happy Birthday!

Caron at Michigan Quilts said...

Hope you had a glorious birthday... hope you're feeling better.

Denise Aumick said...

Oh Happy Day to you! I don't know what to say about this piece - except this....your creativity and imagination are amazing. KEEP GOING.

jude said...

love it all. the moon works so well in the hope thing!
and the other piece, wildly pleasing....

Ann Morrell said...

I love this piece....